On the other hand, the employers and contractors of engineers as well as the national administrations in charge of recognition of professional qualifications need also to be able to easily and rapidly check if the engineering qualifications presented comply qualitatively and quantitatively with their acceptance criteria concerning the qualifications and competences required more particularly for health, security and consumer protection reasons.

Aim

The aim of the ENGCARD concept/ pilot project which is practically consisting in a European Professional Mobility Pass for Engineers defined as a new EUROPASS document where the content is certified by a third party’s, is definitively designed to attenuate or remove that major obstacles for mobility highlighted before.

Thanks to ENGCARD, the obstacle related to recognition/description of professional qualifications will be attenuated or waved and consequently, the geographical, occupational or virtual mobility of engineers in EU and worldwide will be facilitated.

The aim will only be reached thanks to the consensual design of a credible, standardized and certified innovative instrument - in this case, a European Professional Pass playing the role of a Professional Identity Card - allowing easy, portable, transparent and global recognition/description of the professional qualifications and competences of the cardholder all over EU and worldwide.

Moreover, the “Whereas 32” of the Directive 2005/36 « The introduction, at European level, of professional cards by professional associations or organizations could facilitate the mobility of professionals, in particular by speeding up the exchange of information between the host Member State and the Member State of origin. This professional card should make it possible to monitor the career of professionals who establish themselves in various Member States. Such cards could contain information, in full respect of data protection provisions, on the professional’s qualifications (university or institution attended, qualifications obtained, professional experience), his legal establishment, penalties received relating to his profession and the details of the relevant competent authority. » is proposing to Professional Organizations to set up Professional Identity Cards to facilitate mobility of their professionals. As such, ENGCARD will also liaise closely with the IMI (Internal Market Information System) project approved by the IMAC (Internal Market Advisory Committee) to support the implementation of Dir. 2005/36 by facilitating recognition of qualifications where engineering professions are regulated.

It is obvious that, in order to be successfully accepted and credible, the concept of that innovative instrument (including its design and deployment) must be supported by a large consensus of stakeholders involved in one way or another in its future use (mainly : engineers, employers and national administrations in charge of professional recognition of qualifications).

That task constitutes the major workload for this pilot project, so the content of the ENGCARD pilot project is mainly at this stage, to establish a consensus between all the stakeholders concerning the added value of the concept in term of mobility’s enhancer and to reach agreement on its design and the best multi-disciplinary approach for its future deployment.

Justification

Engineers constitute, one of the most mobile professions in the world.

This is due to the large diversity of their occupations and the varied location of their projects.

In that context, it is also mandatory, for health, safety and consumers’ protection reasons and to be certain that the engineers taking part to such projects are really qualified engineers, that a standardized instrument playing that qualifications’ certification role must be put in place in EU.

In EU and worldwide, education systems and access to the professions are not harmonized. The qualifications encountered to become engineers are different from one country to the other and are depending on the profiles of the engineer.

Moreover, in some countries, the profession and the access to it are sometimes fully regulated, sometimes partially for certain modes of pursuit and/or for some engineering professions or sometimes the exercise of the profession is completely free.

Based on FEANI researches, +/- 15 % of engineering professions are regulated in EU and in that case the mobility is ruled by Directive 2005/36. That Directive is proposing that professional organizations implement professional card to facilitate mobility of their professionals. For the non regulated engineering professions, EUROPASS is a good mobility facilitator. ENGCARD will design a common approach to solve mobility issues for all the engineering professions.

With the deregulation of education where several completely different educational background will be covered under the qualification of “Bachelor or Master in Engineering”, and the emergence of the new phenomenon of ‘diploma mills” where anybody could even buy a PhD on the Internet, it is essential, mainly in the countries not regulating the profession and where everybody can qualify himself as “engineer”, to put in place a quality label to protect the final consumer and the society from this danger.

In front of a so large and complex diversity, rules and comparisons standards should therefore be defined and implemented on a trusted way to warrant the level of transparency requested to allow administrations, employers and contractors to evaluate and recognize objectively and at the right level, the qualifications and competences of the individual engineer.

The certified transparency of the recognition of the professional qualifications and competence will create a win–win situation for both employers/contractors and engineers. Indeed, on one side they will better understand which qualifications, competences and experience they need while reducing the risk of mistakes, and on the other side the engineer will be hired based on his real value on the market in term of content of the function, accountability, remuneration and social status.

Synthesis

Thanks to the ENGCARD certification (proven by the possession by the cardholder of a European Professional Identity Card) and the EUROPASS associated register/data base of professional engineers, mobility will become more feasible and easy and will consequently be facilitated and increased.

As engineers are key players for the take off of the knowledge-based society - a pillar of the Lisbon strategy - the availability of a professional pass for engineers will play a key role for a rapid reallocation of the right brains to the right places and will directly enhance EU competitiveness.

Moreover the EUROPASS framework (see : Decision n°2241/2004/EC)will also be reinforced by the added value of the certification by a third party of the professional qualifications’ mentioned as part of its content.

And with an innovative instrument like ENGCARD, the right positioning, the quality label, the image, the notoriety and the prestige of the European engineers will also unquestionably be strengthen in EU and globally.

By extension, it is also possible to transpose the ENGCARD concept and reproduce it for other professions and as such, this pilot project fit perfectly with the first aim of point 2. of this call for proposal.

As such, ENGCARD complies also with the objectives of 2006, European Year of Workers Mobility.

2) Specify how your project will contribute to facilitate workers' mobility in the EU, notably, job mobility, geographic mobility or both

The ENGCARD pilot project will be consensually designed in such a way to solve as much mobility obstacles that have been identified by the High Level task Force on Skills and Mobility as possible.

Some recommendations of the Commission’s Action Plan for Skills and Mobility have been used as guidelines for the design of the draft ENGCARD concept.

For all engineering professions (regulated, not regulated, employee status, liberal profession), the ENGCARD innovative instrument contributes principally in an integrated and uniform way and with a long term perspective :

to expand engineers’ occupational mobility by offering a certified tool allowing the transparency and the portability of engineering qualifications and competencies across Europe and worldwide, and on capitalizing on the EUROPASS legal framework with a specific add-on for managing engineers professional characteristics,

to facilitate engineer’s geographical mobility by providing certified evidence of engineering qualifications to wave some administrative obstacles , to attenuate legal barriers and mainly to accelerate the formal procedure of recognition of professional qualifications as proposed by the Directive 2005/36,

to allow to have professional engineer’s qualifications also recognized virtually and to offer the possibility to sign electronically to pump prime e-mobility by including a professional electronic signature in the ENGCARD,

and, thanks to transparency of qualifications, to increase the success rate of matching job vacancies and job searchers all over Europe.

Pragmatically ENGCARD - the innovative instrument proposed facilitates mobility on the following way.

All over EU and worldwide, it will be possible for an employers, a contractors or a public administration and thanks to ENGCARD to verify easily and transparently the description of the qualifications of the cardholder.

The ENGCARD will demonstrate in a certified way provided by experts in engineering, that the engineering training followed by the engineer is qualitatively accredited as a engineering programme, that the engineer professional experience is relevant. The exact profile of the engineer will be also be presented on a condensed and standardized way based on a specific European Qualifications Framework for Engineers to be designed.

A register for European engineer will be maintained and a European Professional Identity Card will be distributed to the engineers to show that the cardholder is recognized as a European professional engineer.

The added value of ENGCARD resides in providing certified and standardized transparency of the information concerning the qualifications of the engineers in order to make them portable and trusted.

The trust in the ENGCARD make it credible and it is the portability of the information concerning the qualifications of the engineer that make them more easily recognized and so geographical and occupational mobility will be facilitated all over EU and worldwide too.

The engineers will have their professional qualifications and competences recognized at their fair worth and merit and the employers, contractors or national administrations in charge of recognition of professional qualifications will have an objectively mean to easily and rapidly check if the engineering qualifications presented comply qualitatively and quantitatively with their acceptance criteria and requirements.

Practically, the qualifications of a professional engineer will be managed thanks to a new specific EUROPASS ENGCARD document /data base attached to the existing EUROPASS documents (European CV, Mobility certificates, Diploma Supplement, Language portfolio) and will be also presented on a condensed and certified way on a secure card (a chipcard) to constitute the European Professional Identity Card or the European Professional Mobility Pass.

The possession of a Professional identity card will constitute the physical proof that the cardholder is a qualified registered professional European engineer having the qualifications in engineering as transparently summarized on the verso of the card.

Conceptually, the card is not really mandatory to operate this system of description of qualifications because all the information will be already maintained on EUROPASS - ENGCARD, the European register of Engineers.

But it is helpful and practical to have, a simple physical instrument to be to hand (a secure chipcard in that case including the cardholder name, picture, signature and other security features) to demonstrate rapidly to whom it may concern the description of the qualifications of the cardholder.

The number of the card gives direct access to the record concerning the cardholder in the central register where all the details could be obtained, of course, based on the respect of data privacy.

Finally the ENGCARD will constitute, by analogy with other European standardized cards (identity, driving licence and social security), the European Professional Identity Card of an Engineer and will play sometimes the role of mobility pass when it is necessary to have his/her qualifications recognized or demonstrated.

Of course, when changing the word ‘Engineer’ by the name of an other profession, the concept is easily portable for them too providing the same added value and benefits in term of recognition of qualifications and consequently as mobility enhancer.

3) Describe the policy relevance of your project and its innovative value

The policy relevance of the project and its innovative value results from that, for the first time in EU and starting from the engineering sector, an integrated concept with a long term perspective is proposed to try to remove the mobility obstacle related to the recognition of the professional qualifications for all profiles of engineers.

The draft ENGCARD concept that needs still to be validated by stakeholders in the framework of that pilot project, is called “integrated” because it is proposing a instrument enhancing mobility and that encompasses :

• Free movement of workers (85% are engineers-employees) and Free Movement of Services (15% are consulting engineers/independents),
• Regulated (15%) and Non regulated (85%) engineering professions,
• Geographical, Occupational or Virtual mobility,
• EU but provides also a worldwide dimension.

In order to avoid to reinvent the wheel, to fix the concept on solid basement, to ensure the credibility and to ease its future acceptance and usage by stakeholders, the design of ENGCARD is capitalising on several ongoing EU policies and legislation, on standards and on results of other successful initiatives such as :

the Directive 2005/36 on recognition of professional qualifications and its “Whereas 36” that give the opportunity to a European Professional Organization to deliver Professional Cards to facilitate mobility,

the future Directive on Services in the Internal Market (COM (2004) 2 final) and its article 39. on “European Code of Conduct” that give the opportunity to the same European Professional Organization to implement a code of conduct to warrant the quality of services thanks to a monitoring of the qualifications and competences acquired by experience and lifelong learning, among others,

the intergovernmental BOLOGNA declaration with its Bachelor/Master structure, the ECTS, the Diploma Supplement document and the Accreditation of Education training that provides ENGCARD with a common structure and some tools to allow transparency of qualifications between the different national systems based on their learning outcomes,

the compliancy of the accepted qualifications with the EUR-ACE standards (see www.feani.org, section EUR-ACE) for the accreditation of engineering education programs that will certify a EU quality label to the considered engineering programmes.

the EUROPASS framework (European framework for Transparency of Qualifications and Competences) wherein ENGCARD will be integrated as a new set of documents (register and certified professional card),

the structure of the EC’s EQF (European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning) will also be considered as a reference to facilitate the transfer and recognition of the qualifications of individuals.

The approach used for the draft ENGCARD concept could be considered as an optimal integration of existing tools and as such could be also considered as innovative.

ENGCARD is also innovative because no similar European instrument exists today even for other profession with the specific aim of facilitating mobility thanks to a certified transparency recognition of qualifications.

The Lawyers have well a European professional card but its goal is not related to recognition of qualifications because for them (as for dentists, doctors, architects, nurses,..….) and contrary to engineers, the recognition is automatic. The Lawyers’ card aims to provide, an easy access to the jail to visit their prisoners on a pan -European basis.

Other existing European professional cards (journalists,…) are purely ‘membership cards’ without any added value concerning professional mobility.

The ENGCARD concept is also original and innovative in the sense that it is the first time in Europe that the qualifications of a professional engineer will be summarized on a condensed, certified, neutral, transparent and standardized way to induce a “secure, transparent and without frontiers” recognition of his professional qualifications.

Finally another innovative aspect of this concept is that the acceptation criteria of an engineering qualification for the ‘after Bologna’ graduated will be based on the new EUR-ACE accreditation standards for engineering programmes.

For many years FEANI and EUROCADRES have consistently suggested the development of quality criteria and the introduction of an accreditation processes for the main professional areas in Europe (FEANI for Engineers only). For these reasons the recommendation on quality assurance in higher education are welcomed. The setting up of standards, procedures and guidelines on assurance quality that is proposed should however, explicitly cover accreditation. EUROCADRES and FEANI see accreditation not only as a supplementary possible option to quality assurance processes, but as a necessary instrument in order to secure real transparency and mutual recognition of qualifications and diplomas across Europe

This pilot project can fully answer this challenge thanks to a Professional Identity Card integrated with a EUROPASS ENGCARD register.

The added value at EU level is difficult to estimate quantitatively at this stage, but qualitatively we could say that mobility will be increased thanks to ENGCARD on the following ways.

• by a transparent system of description of qualifications, the European professional engineers will become more “portable” which is definitively a plus for mobility and resources reallocation throughout Europe.

• by a trusted and safe system, the European professional engineers qualifications will be certified and qualified on a standardized way which is a plus to optimize the pan-European recruitment’ procedures.

Finally, ENGCARD will emulate the emergence of high-qualified European Engineer profile to compete in a better position also on the global marketplace.

4) Describe the potential lasting impact of your project and its multiplier effect notably, durability after funding has ended, transferability, capacity to lead to new policy developments

As already pinpointed previously, the aim of the ENGCARD pilot project consists on researches, awareness and validations to nurture strategic, conceptual and functional thoughts in order to design an optimal scenario based on multilateral co-operations and exchanges of best practices with all the stakeholders in order to reach a consensus on the added value of the ENGCARD concept as mobility enhancer.

The added value for the engineers’ sector (with FEANI playing the role of expert representing the profession) will be first pragmatically addressed as test bed in the framework of this pilot project.

If mobility is facilitated and increased for engineers, there is no reason why the ‘model’ could not be successfully duplicated and transposed to other professions and other sectors.

One of the main involvement of EUROCADRES in this project will be specifically dedicated to address the generalization’s issues and to consider the transferability’s and portability’s aspects of the concept to solve, according to the same logic, the mobility obstacles faced by all the other professions.

New policies developments regarding the generalization of the concept recognized as mobility enhancer will obviously result from it. The mission of EUROCADRES and its network of National Members and other Social partners, is to capitalize on value added by this innovative instrument specifically evaluated and tested for engineers and afterwards to migrate the concept to other professions and to lead finally to the development of new mobility policies.

Concerning the durability of the project after funding has ended, it is mandatory to address this important point. A good project find always funding for its further development and is durable when it is really satisfying needs expressed by the market.

The aim of the Pilot Project phase is to pave the way for the success of the next steps and to guarantee that the full deployment of the recommended solution for ENGCARD is anchored on solid basement.

From the results of several surveys launched to engineers and engineers associations in February and April 2006, it is demonstrated that ENGCARD is ranked by them as a top priority innovative instrument to facilitate mobility.

The real ‘on the field’ operational lasting and leveraging impact on mobility generated by ENGCARD would only be generated at medium term when the ENGCARD will be up and running for a certain period.

The added value of the project and its benefits for each stakeholder will be clearly identified, explained and promoted to them during this pilot project. and at the end of the pilot project, the strategy for the full deployment will be clearly understood and supported by the stakeholders.

Those committed individuals and organizations will then constitute the installed base of the early adopters for ENGCARD. This is the foundation of the marketing and sales theory; the early adopters will pump prime the development of the concept and will be the first to benefit from it. A value chain will be created and the critical mass of users will only arrive later, when the concept is already proven and largely used and disseminated.

The challenge is to reach rapidly a critical mass by raising awareness in order that a value chain is taking place and then, by snowball effect, ENGCARD will normally play its role of “mobility enhancer” and become rapidly financially self sustainable.

Practically at the end of the Pilot Project

Most of the 3.500.000 professional engineers, students in engineering, industrialists and consulting engineering companies employing engineers as well as the authorities in charge of recognition, the recruitment agencies and the MOBILNET and EURES euro advisers will be aware of the benefits and added value of ENGCARD.

The engineers and the FEANI 26 National members and their associated members (see list in appendix) will be “on the starting blocks’, waiting for the ENGCARD pilot project deliverables to start registration.

The involvement of the social partner EUROCADRES in all this initiatives related to recognition of qualifications and diplomas (including the current developments concerning the regulated professions) together with the professional associations for engineers FEANI, makes it more concrete and representative.

This pilot project is in line with the opinion that a partnership can secure a coherent approach to mutual recognition of qualifications and diplomas related to higher education. This should be based on existing national experiences with the participation of the concerned partners. Developments should be coordinated according to the heterogeneity of the profession of the engineer. This is happening now with this presented project.

5) Describe the partnership put in place to carry out the project, specifying clearly the strong points of each partner and the specific role of each partner in the work programme

The partnership put in place to carry the ENGCARD pilot project includes :

• FEANI organisation including its secretariat general in Brussels and its network of 26 National Members and associated members and,

• EUROCADRES organisation including its secretariat general in Brussels and its network of 23 National Members and associated members. For the ENGCARD Pilot Project, it is SIF (the Swedish member of EUROCADRES) that will lead the process on behalf of EUROCADRES.

Strong points and Contribution of FEANI and its European network of 26 National Members

As European federation representing the interest of engineers, FEANI has an in-depth knowledge of the engineers’ world and of the obstacles to mobility encountered by engineers due to the lack of harmonisation between the Member States’ education and access to the profession systems.

As central point of contact between their National Members and the EU institutions, FEANI has acquired a useful expertise of the EU working, of its decisional process and of the legislation and policies related to the large scope of FEANI activities covering : internal market – recognition of professional qualifications, education and accreditation, transparency of competencies and qualifications, qualifications framework, lifelong learning, R&D, …

ast year, several surveys have been launched to engineers and to engineers associations and the results have been consolidated to provide a clear picture of the situation concerning : existing regulations, obstacles to access to the profession, training systems ,… and including also an inventory of the engineers requirements in term of mobility.

According to those requirements, the ENGCARD concept is considered and ranked “Very Important” as mobility enhancer, the pilot project will capitalise on all those FEANI proprietary results to design the innovative mobility instrument that best fits taking the constraints into account.

Additionally to this European Engineer’s Expert role and the role of legal applicant, the involvements of FEANI in the project will also include:

• The project management, monitoring, reporting and quality control,
• The administrative follow-up, financial management and treasurer function,
• The secretary support,
• The logistic for some meetings,
• The relationship management and follow-up with the sub-contractors,
• The participation to all the technical activities of the project ENGCARD working as an integrated team with EUROCADRES and external experts from FEANI and EUROCADRES National Members depending on their capabilities,
• The organization of the events,
• The promotion and dissemination of the results to raise awareness,
• The drafting of the Final Evaluation Report.

Additionally, the strategic activities of the project will be advised and validated by a working group composed of 3 FEANI’s Board members whom have been delegated to follow the project and provide added valued comments on the policies and deliverables.

The FEANI’s National Members in 26 EU Countries will be periodically involved in the project; they will be regularly informed about the major issues and will be invited to comment on each step in order to facilitate the future acceptation of the results and of the scenario for implementing the pilot project and afterwards its full deployment.

Some tasks from the work programme will be also shared with them.

Strong points and Contribution of EUROCADRES and its National Member Organisations

In Europe today, around 15% of the work force hold professional or managerial posts.

The Council of European professional and managerial staff – EUROCADRES is their European representative organisation. EUROCADRES has more than 5 million professionals and managers in membership throughout Europe. They work in all branches of industry, both manufacturing and service, and in the civil and public services.

EUROCADRES is recognised by the European Commission as a European social partner. It puts forward proposals and intervenes in all issues relevant to professionals and managers. Their views are put to all European institutions and organisations. EUROCADRES participates at European level in social dialogue and collective bargaining. EUROCADRES is an organisation associated to the ETUC (European trade union confederation).

EUROCADRES supports the professionals and managers organisations that operate in a variety of structures through Europe. It conduct surveys and studies, organises exchanges of information and conferences that facilitate the development of European perspective.

Professionals and managers take an active part in the building of Europe through the responsibilities they hold in companies and in the civil and public services, through their mobility and their openness to international activity.

EUROCADRES acts on behalf of European professional and managerial staff to:

• develop employment in Europe;
• secure fair conditions on mobility;
• guarantee recognition of qualifications and diplomas;
• improve education and lifelong learning;
• realise gender equality;
• monitor working conditions and working time;
• enhance collective bargaining at all levels,
• promote the European management model.

Several EUROCADRES bodies and activities are concerned by the ENGCARD project, in particular:

• The EUROCADRES network for engineers relies on the large number of engineers amongst the EUROCADRES membership. The recognition of qualifications and the future of the engineering profession is its main matters of concerns. This network is particularly involved in the "EUR-ACE" project (European accreditation for engineering programs) and in the preparation of the world conference of engineering and scientific organisations.

• The EUROCADRES network for researchers is aimed to promote sharing of information between researchers and to take action on within the European bodies on matters that affect research. It published in 2004 proposals for European researchers that advocate establishing a framework for the professional development of researchers in Europe.

• The platform "START-PRO" is the EUROCADRES link between students and the professional life. It has recently been set up in order to facilitate transition from student to professional life. It deals particularly with: student life and higher education, transition to work period and first employment,

• "MOBIL-NET" is the EUROCADRES network of mobility advisers. It has been established in order to answer questions from mobile professional and managerial staff, including engineers. These advisers have been trained together; they mainly cooperate through Internet and are able to provide advices. They regularly exchange information and experience and meet in order to develop their ability and to anticipate mobile professionals' and managers' needs.

EUROCADRES will be involved in all the steps of the ENGCARD pilot project: establishing vision, feasibility study, validating and promoting the concept, preparing and taking part in conference, preparing business plan, design, presentation, dissemination and evaluation without to forget the most important one : the facilitation of consensus between stakeholders.

All the activities outsourced to the EUROCADRES members will be managed and coordinated by SIF, the Swedish member of EUROCADRES on behalf of EUROCADRES and chaired by Mr Forslund, the Vice-President of EUROCADRES in charge of Engineers.

Against the background of mobility, EUROCADRES will pay a particular attention to the professional life of engineers and to the link between education, training and the work place environment

EUROCADRES will be committed, on the basis of the experience of its national members, which organise engineers, of its knowledge of European higher education and training for engineers and in others fields than Engineering, and of its European background.

The EUROCADRES engineers network will be actively involved in all European countries with its steering team. A particular attention will be pay to regular exchange of information at the various steps of the project. It will facilitate a common understanding of the process and will guarantee a good quality of the results. This work will be coordinated by the EUROCADRES Vice-President in charge of the engineering area.

Finally, the main responsibility specifically dedicated to EUROCADRES in ENGCARD will be to liaise and find consensus with the other Social Partners, to pilot and contribute to the development of policy in order to generalize ENGCARD to other professions and to duplicate the proposed innovative mobility concept and instrument.

6) Describe the methodological aspects of your proposal as well as the work programme and the human resources available

The methodology used to realize and deliver successfully this pilot project is based on the best practices regarding project management, team works, workshops’ facilitations, consensus building and validations. It includes also the data surveying, data gathering, data analysis, process and business consulting and modelling techniques.

Project Organization

The ENGCARD Steering Committee will be composed of 3 FEANI members (Mr. Wauters, General Secretary, Prof. Duarte Silva, Feani Board Member and Chairman of the its European Monitoring Committee and Ir. Blaffart, ENGCARD Project manager) and 3 EUROCADRES members (Mr. Ameel, General Secretary, Mr. Forslund Eurocadres Vice President and ENGCARD project manager on behalf of Eurocadres and Mr. Pahlman, ENGCARD Project coordinator).

The steering committee will meet every 6 weeks in average. It will support the project in its day to day activities by advising on actions and deliverables and will also regularly liaise respectively with their National members Associations to cooperate efficiently on the different tasks under their responsibility.

Specific working groups reporting to the project steering committee will be created to investigate in detail the following subjects:

• EUROCADRES Working Group “Survey on European Employers Human Resources Directors’ Needs”, this working group will meet 6 times.
• EUROCADRES Working Group “Transposition and duplication of ENGCARD innovative instrument to other professions”, this working group will meet 6 times.
• FEANI Working Group “European Qualifications Framework for Engineers” as part of the activities of the FEANI Committee on Continuous Professional Development, this working group will meet 6 times.
• FEANI Working Group “ENGCARD organization, process and procedures” as part of the activities of the FEANI European Monitoring Committee, this working group will meet 6 times.

Project management is a major issue to tackle the risks associated with facilitation to find consensus with a pilot project grouping several stakeholders with sometimes divergent interests or priorities.

To reduce that risks, we propose optionally to complete the FEANI/EUROCADRES steering committee by an advisory committee composed of EC servants from DG Internal Market (Dir 2005/36), from DG Education (EUROPASS and European Qualifications Framework) and from DG Employment (EURES) , of Social Partners representing employers (UNICE, CEEMET, EFCA,…) and of representatives of Liberal Professions (CEPLIS).

Others aspects of project management including follow-up and resources planning, monitoring, reporting, budgeting and risk management and contingency planning and quality control of the deliverables will be covered.

Resources to deliver the pilot project

It is mainly the staff of the General Secretariat of FEANI that will be involved in the delivery of the ENGCARD pilot project, it includes : Mr. Wauters (part time), Mr. Blaffart (full time); Mr. Baudé (part time), Mr/Mrs To Be Hired (part time) to realize the work programme and Mrs Declercq (part time) and Mrs Vandenbergh (part time) for the administrative and logistic activities.

An ENGCARD working group composed of three FEANI Board members (Mr. Albert Wawrzyniak, Mr. José Antonio Molina Francès et Prof. Joao Duarte Silva) and the FEANI General Secretary has been designated to set priorities, to follow strategically the pilot project and to support ENGCARD at FEANI level

Additionally, several members of the FEANI Committees (EMC/European Monitoring Committee and CPD/Continuous Professional development) to be designated and who are experts delegated by their National Members associations will be involved to deliver inputs on specific topics as part of the two ENGCARD working groups mentioned previously.

Finally, all the National Members of FEANI will be regularly consulted to provide comments and validations on the different deliverables.

The EUROCADRES involvement in the pilot project will follow the same structure as FEANI but with the following major difference, it is SIF - the Swedish member of EUROCADRES that will manage the project on behalf of EUROCADRES.

The EUROCADRES team delivering ENGCARD includes : Mr. Forslund (part time), Eurocadres Vice President in charge of Engineers and Director of SIF as EUROCADRES project manager, he will be assisted by Mr. Pahlman (part time), from SIF too and supported by Mr. Ameel (part time) General Secretary of EUROCADRES. Some administrative and logistic support will also be performed by Mrs. Gandwerg (part time).

Additionally, several experts of the EUROCADRES National Members associations to be designated will be involved to deliver inputs on specific topics as part of the two EUROCADRES working groups mentioned previously. Finally, all the National Members of EUROCADRES will be regularly consulted to provide comments and validations on the different deliverables.