The European Young Engineers (EYE) is a European network [1] of young engineering professionals and students. Main activities have been identified as sharing knowledge, fostering mobility and developing personal and professional skills. [2] [3] In the mid-1990s, Europe’s expansion towards Eastern Europe and the Baltic was approaching. For the engineering profession, this posed many challenges: changes in engineering education; the resulting higher mobility in Europe; mutual recognition of diplomas and professional experiences.
Young Engineers have been confronted with increasing international cooperation in their professional engineering projects. National engineering associations could only partially support their members, especially their students and young engineers.
Young members of the European engineers‘ organizations created a pan-European platform and founded the European Young Engineers (EYE) in 1994. During the following years, several engineering associations in Europe have been invited to join and EYE rapidly grew.
EYE has grown to more than 18,000 associations and more than 150,000 young engineers in Europe. EYE started to offer its member organizations and their students and young engineers the access to a Europe-wide network by linking the engineering associations.
Twice a year, EYE organizes a member-hosted conference, with between 80 and 300 participants from all over Europe. Between these events, the community stays in touch via their website [4] and social media channels.
In 2007 the European Young Engineers signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with FEANI . [5] [6]
Statues of the European Young Engineers
The latest statutes of the European Young Engineers have been voted on by the Council in 2016.
List of member organizations
| Country | Name of organization | Acronym |
| belgium | ie-net ingenieursvereniging vzw | IE-NET |
| Bosnia-Herzegowina | Studentski elektrotehnički klub i served Sarajevu(Student Association of Electrotechnics of the University of Sarajevo) | STELEKS |
| bulgaria | ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ НА НАУЧНО-ТЕХНИЧЕСКИТЕСЪЮЗИ В БЪЛГАРИЯ (Federation of Scientific Engineering Unions in Bulgaria) | FNTS |
| denmark | Ingeniorforeningen i Danmark [7](Danish Society of Engineers) | IDA |
| finland | Uusi Insinööriliitto(Union of Professional Engineers in Finland) | UIL |
| la France | National Office of Engineering Students(National Bureau of Engineering) | BNEI |
| la France | French Association of Women Engineers(French Association of Female Engineers) | FI |
| Germany | Verein Deutscher Ingenieure [8] | VDI |
| hungary | Műszaki és Természettudományi EgyesületekSzövetsége – (Federation of Technical and Scientific Societies) | MTESZ |
| ireland | Engineers Ireland | EI |
| italy | Associazione Giovani Ingegneri della Provincia diSalerno (Association of Young Engineers of the Province of Salerno) | GIOIN |
| italy | EYE Italia | EYEIT |
| luxembourg | National Association of Engineering StudentsLuxembourg (Union of Luxembourg Engineering Students) | ANEIL |
| malta | University Engineering Students Association | FSAU |
| Netherlands | Koninklijk Instituut Van Ingenieurs(Royal Institute of Engineers in the Netherlands) | KIVI |
| Netherlands | Koninklijke Landbouwkundige Vereniging(Royal Agricultural Society) | KLV |
| norway | Norges største organizasjon for ingeniører ogteknologer (Norwegian Society of Engineers and Technologists) | NITO |
| United Kingdom | Association for Consultancy and Engineering | ACE |
| United Kingdom | Institute of Marine Engineering, Science andTechnology | IMarEST |
| United Kingdom | Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining | IOM3 |
| United Kingdom | Young Railway Professionals [9] | YRP |
| United Kingdom | European Young Engineers United Kingdom [10] | EYE-UK |
Conferences of the European Young Engineers
EYE has successfully organized conferences in the following locations:
| Dated | leasing | Theme | Further information |
| June 1995 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| November 1995 | Antwerp, Belgium | ||
| June 1996 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | ||
| October 1996 | Dublin, Ireland | ||
| Jun 1997 | Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
| November 1997 | Karlsruhe, Germany | ||
| June 1998 | London, UK | ||
| November 1998 | Budapest, Hungary | ||
| June 1999 | Brussels, Belgium | ||
| November 1999 | Utrecht, Netherlands | ||
| June 2000 | Hanover, Germany | ||
| November 2000 | Helsinki, Finland | ||
| May 2001 | Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
| November 2001 | Paris, France | ||
| May 2002 | Bruges, Belgium | ||
| November 2002 | The Hague, Netherlands | ||
| June 2003 | Helsinki, Finland | ||
| November 2003 | Cologne, Germany | „International Management – New International Challenges“ | |
| June 2004 | London, UK | „Managing People for Business“ | |
| November 2004 | Strasbourg, France | „International Management – New International Challenges“ | |
| June 2005 | Cardiff, UK | „Entrepreneurship“ | |
| November 2005 | Leuven, Belgium | „Surface of Innovating Life“ | |
| May 2006 | Sofia, Bulgaria | „European Union and Challenges for the Young Engineers“ | |
| October 2006 | Salerno, Italy | ||
| June 2007 | Enschede, Netherlands | „People“ | |
| October 2007 | Valletta, Malta | „Networking Europe through Engineering“ | Conference website [11] |
| May 2008 | Copenhagen, Denmark | „Exploring Environmental Sustainability“ | |
| October 2008 | Dusseldorf, Germany | „Do it with a European Engineer“ | |
| May 2009 | Hasselt | „Energy of the Future“ | |
| June 2010 | Glasgow, UK | „Innovating to meet our Global Challenges“ | |
| November 2010 | Salerno, Italy | „Standarization in a Global World“ | |
| June 2011 | Varna, Bulgaria | „Engineering the Future“ | |
| September 2011 | Geneva, Switzerland | Joint Conference with World Engineers Congress (WEC) Facing the Global Energy Challenge | |
| June 2012 | Leiden, Netherlands | Report (UK) [12] | |
| October 2012 | Valletta, Matla | „Overcoming Limitations“ | |
| June 2013 | Dublin, Ireland | „Engineering Connections“ | Report (Ireland) [13] |
| September 2013 | Antwerp, Belgium | ||
| May 2014 | Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina | „Common Purpose: Together, Stronger, into the Future!“ | |
| October 2015 | Lisbon, Portugal | „Collaborative Engineering – The European Way“ | Conference website [14] , Report (UK) [15] |
| May 2016 | Hannover, Germany | „Digital Transformation“ | Report (Newspaper) [16] , Report (Local team from Germany) [17] |
| June 2017 | Bristol, UK | „Ideas are international“ | Conference Website [18] , Report (Hungarian) [19] , Report (Croatian) [20] , Report (Biggerplate) [21] |
References
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- Jump up^ Busawon, Abheesha N. „Continuing professional development and mobility in the European green job market“. Environment Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA), 2012 2nd International Symposium on. IEEE – via ieeexplore.
- Jump up^ Busawon, Abheesa (2012). „Assessment of professional skills and mobility of engineers in Europe“. Proceedings of theEE2012: Innovation, Practice and Research in Engineering Education .
- Jump up^ „Website of the European Young Engineers“ . www.eye.eu .
- Jump up^ „FEANI website“ .
- Jump up^ „Description of Memorandum on FEANI website“ .
- Jump up^ „Description of EYE on the IDA website“ .
- Jump up^ „Short description of EYE made by VDI“ .
- Jump up^ „YRP join EYE“ .
- Jump up^ „Website of the European Young Engineers UK“ .
- Jump up^ „Conference website of the Malta 2007 conference“ .
- Jump up^ „Conference Report from IOM3“ .
- Jump up^ Murphy, Paul. „Conference Report from Engineers Ireland“ .
- Jump up^ „Description of the European Young Engineers Forum in Lisbon 2015“ .
- Jump up^ „Lisbon Conference Report 2015 on the ACE website“ .
- Jump up^ „Report in the newspaper VDI Nachrichten“ .
- Jump up^ „Conference Report of a local team of VDI Germany“ .
- Jump up^ „Conference Website of EYE Bristol 2017“ .
- Jump up^ Nagy, Orsolya. „Conference Report (in Hungarian)“ .
- Jump up^ Dokoza, Marin. „Conference Report of the Croatian Engineering Association“ .
- Jump up^ „Conference Report Biggerplate“ .