ECCE Education Task Force

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ECCE Education Task Force
Report on EUR-ACE
Prof. Iacint MANOLIU (UAICR) ECCE Task Force
Education Chairman
42nd ECCE meeting, November 11th 12th,
2005, Istanbul, Turkey
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Project Goals

• The EUR-ACE project aims at setting up a European
  system for accreditation of engineering
  education, with the following main goals
• provide an appropriate "European label" to the
  graduates of the accredited educational
  programmes,
• improve the quality of educational programmes in
  engineering,
• facilitate trans-national recognition by the
  label marking,
• facilitate recognition by the competent
  authorities, in accord with the EU Directives,
  and
• facilitate mutual recognition agreements.
• The system will be based on a set of common
  European standards that will be proposed, tested
  in a number of countries, refined and tuned, and
  then tested again in order to achieve the largest
  consensus. This process will be concluded by the
  end of 2005. Also, a detailed proposal will be
  formulated on how to set up and run the system
  that must become self-supporting within the five
  years.

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Project Partners
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Project Timeline
Stage 1 First Draft of Standards
Procedures September-December 2004 Stage 2
First Testing phase December 2004-February
2005 Discussion and tests of the European
accreditation model by accreditation agencies
professional associations, HEIs, Universities and
other stakeholders.
The last in the series of events within the stage
2 of the Project was the Workshop organized on
March 7th in Bucharest by UAICR (Union of
Associations of Civil Engineers of Romania), ECCE
member, in cooperation with the National Council
for Academic Assessment and Accreditation of
Romania.
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Stage 3 Refinement of Standards Procedures,
March-April 2005 Discussion of results of stage
2 review and revision of the Standards
Procedures first draft scheme on how to run the
European accreditation procedures. The second,
revised version of EUR-ACE Standards and
Procedures for the accreditation of Engineering
Programmes to which comprehensive Explanatory
Notes written by Prof. Giuliano Augusti from
University La Sapienza Rome, EUR-ACE
Coordinator, were put on the EUR-ACE web page
(www.feani.org/EUR-ACE) since May 16th, 2005.
ECCE members were invited to formulate such
suggestions. Stage 4 Retesting, May-October
2005 Tests of the (revised) European engineering
accreditation standards and procedures in several
HEIs and countries, including pilot
accreditations. Members of the EUR-ACE Steering
Committee were actively involved in activities of
the retesting phase. Thus, Prof. Iacint Manoliu
from UAICR participated in accreditation visits
at the Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics, Paris
and the Technical University Tomsk. The retesting
phase will provide new evidence concerning the
applicability of the revised set of
accreditations procedures and criteria. An
important event which took place during this
stage was the establishment of ENAEE (European
Network for Accreditation of Engineering
Education). The first general assembly of ENAEE
took place in Berlin on 7th October 2005. UAICR
is member of ENAEE.
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Project outputs
Stage 5 Wrapping up the EUR-ACE project,
November-December 2005 Submission of
project outputs to the European Commission (DG
Education and Culture). Final meeting of the
Steering Committee Florence, 16 November
2005 Final meeting of all partners Florence, 17
November 2005