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The EUR ING title delivered by FEANI is designed as a guarantee of competence for professional engineers, in order

• to facilitate the movement of practicing engineers within and outside the geographical area represented by FEANI's member countries and to establish a framework of mutual recognition of qualifications in order to enable engineers who wish to practice outside their own country to carry with them a guarantee of competence
• to provide information about the various formation systems of individual engineers for the benefit of prospective employers
• to encourage the continuous improvement of the quality of engineers by setting, monitoring and reviewing standards

The EUR INGs are listed in the FEANI Register, a database maintained by the Secretariat General in Brussels. Currently some 34.000 European Engineers are listed in the register (11/2021). The "Guide to the FEANI Register" (see section "Guide" gives the details on the purpose of the Register and how it is managed).

The European Commission, in a statement to the European Parliament, has recognized the FEANI Register and the EUR ING title as valuable tools for the recognition of national diplomas among member states.

"The FEANI scheme is an excellent example of self-regulation by a profession at European level and it provides a model for other professional groups in the technical and scientific sector, such as chemists and physicists. The FEANI register recognizes and builds upon the diversity of forms of engineering education which exist in the Community and can adapt to any changes which may be decided upon at national level. The procedures for dealing with applications for registration also provide a good respective expertise. Registration on the FEANI register indicates that, whatever the duration or content of his or her initial training, the engineer has reached a certain level of professional competence, certified by his or her peers both at national and European level. Bearing in mind that Member States are required by the case law of the Court to take post-diploma professional experience into consideration, when reaching their decision on recognition, the Commission considers that an engineer who has obtained the title of Eur ING should not normally be required to undertake an adaptation period or sit an aptitude test, as provided for in Article 4 of Directive 89/48/EEC."

Note : The Directive 89/48/EEC has been replaced by the Directive 2005/36/EC - Directive on Recognition of Professional Qualifications, signed on 7 September 2005 in Strassbourg.

3.1 Criteria for the EUR ING Title

The criteria for the EUR ING title are described in detail in the "Guide". The basic principles are presented hereafter.

Principles and structure of the educational and professional systems in Europe vary considerably. Their value is judged by FEANI according to the potential competence of the engineer who emerges from them.

The qualification of the engineer, which falls into two main categories of different but equally important competencies - more theory oriented and more application oriented - first requires an approved engineering education. But full professional competence is only reached after gaining valid professional experience.

After a secondary education at a high level validated by one or more official certificates, normally awarded at the age of about 18 years, a minimum total period of seven years' formation - education, training and experience -is required by FEANI for the EUR ING title. This formation consists of:

• Minimum three years of engineering education successfully completed by an official degree, in a discipline/programme and given by a university (U) or other recognized body at university level, recognised by FEANI (see the FEANI EEED).

• Minimum two years of valid professional experience (E).

• In case the education and experience together is less than the minimum seven years' formation required, the balance to seven years should be covered by education (U), experience (E), or training (T) monitored by the approved engineering institutions, or by preliminary engineering professional experience.

In addition to these formation requirements, EUR INGs are required to comply with a Code of Conduct respecting the provisions of the FEANI Position Paper on Code of Conduct: Ethics and Conduct of Professional Engineers.

3.1.a What is Engineering Education?

An Engineering Education must provide a thorough knowledge of the principles of engineering, based on mathematics, physics and computer science appropriate to his or her discipline. Any engineer listed in the FEANI Register is guaranteed to have had such an education.

3.1.b What is Professional Engineering Experience and Training?

The duration of professional engineering experience shall be at least two years and include the following:

• The solution of problems requiring the application of engineering science in the fields such as research, development, design, production, construction, installation, maintenance, engineering sales and marketing, and
• Management or guiding of technical staff or
• The financial, economical, statutory or legal aspects of engineering tasks, or
• Industrial and/or environmental problem solving.

3.2 How to know if the school/programme is recognised by FEANI?  

• In case a EUR ING candidate wants to know, before applying, if the school she/he graduated from as well as the programme she/he followed to achieve her/his degree is recognised by FEANI, she/he may ask this question to the relevant National Monitoring Committee directly.