ENAEE publishes “The ENAEE 10th anniversary e-book”

It has been more than a decade since the foundation of ENAEE (European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education) on 8 February 2006, at the end of the first EUR-ACE project. On the occasion of the first ENAEE Members Forum (Leuven, October 18-19), ENAEE publishes “The ENAEE 10^th anniversary e-book” to document the birth and development of the EUR-ACE® system.

The history of ENAEE and of the EUR-ACE® system illustrates the profound changes which occurred in the European Higher Education at the turn of the XXI^th century. Hence, this history is not anecdotal and may be of interest to the engineering and education communities.

EUR-ACE® is at the confluence of two important educational developments. On the one hand, the “Bologna process” aims to build a coherent, compatible and competitive European Higher Education Area (EHEA); it focuses on the academic features of European higher education. On the other hand, the “Lisbon agenda” of the European Commission, aims to build a “knowledge society”, with a stronger focus on the impact of higher education and research on the economy and society.

In the e-book, the reader will understand how the founders of the EUR-ACE system have worked, with the support of the European Commission, to match the two complementary aspects of engineering education, and how they succeeded in building a qualification framework for future engineering professionals, coping with the diversity of the engineering professions and of the education systems in Europe and beyond.

Contact: secretariat@enaee.eu; www.enaee.eu/