European Young Engineers

The European Young Engineers (EYE)  is a European non-profit organisation,^[1] listed in the register of Engineering associations of the World Federation of Engineering Associations.^[2] The aim is to encourage young engineering professionals and students sharing knowledge, fostering mobility and developing personal and professional skills.

History

In the mid 1990s, Europe’s views and feelings were growing together faster and faster; the 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.

Confronted with increasing international co-operation in their professional engineering projects, young engineers saw the need to be better prepared for the European market. National engineering associations could and still can only partly provide the answer to those questions and give support to their members, especially their students and young engineers.

Consequently, young members of the European engineers’ organisations created a pan-European platform and founded the European Young Engineers (EYE) in 1994. During the following years several engineering associations in Europe were invited to join and EYE rapidly grew.

EYE became a dynamic and rapidly growing organisation with enthusiastic members, rapidly consisting of more than 18 associations and representing more than 150.000 young engineers in Europe. EYE started to offer its member organisations and their students and young engineers the access to a Europe-wide network by linking the engineering associations.

Twice a year, EYE offers a member-hosted conference, each one bringing together between 80 and 300 participants from all over Europe. Between these events, the community stays in contact via their website.

In 2007 the European Young Engineers signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with FEANI.^[3]

Objectives

• Bringing together young engineers from all over Europe
• Fostering the mobility of young engineers
• Representation of Member Associations
• Enabling young engineers to share knowledge and experience

Key activities

• Bi-annual conferences: The conferences are hosted by one of EYE‘s Member Associations. The program includes usually industrial visits, workshops, lectures, social and cultural events
• E-Magazine ‘EYE Contact’: Twice a year EYE publishes its magazine ‘EYE Contact’, containing news from across the EYE network as well as articles, conference reports and a sneak-peek at the programme for the next conference
• Cooperation with Careers International
• Development of international projects

Benefits for individuals

• International networking
• Building a personal interdisciplinary engineering network of friends throughout Europe
• Insight into engineering life in different countries
• Obtaining soft skills in international surroundings
• Contacts for international job and training opportunities

Statutes

The latest statutes of the European Young Engineers have been voted on by the Council in 2016.

List of member organisations

Conferences

EYE has successfully organised conferences in the following locations:

References