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Having now officially established and started the EEAG as
an informal network, we wanted to develop it further as
a European forum exclusively for the involved stakeholder
management to network, discuss, meet and exchange at a
twice-per-year think-thank gathering. As a result two more
EEAG events were organized on 7 March and 11 September
2019 and more stakeholders signed up. At year-end 2019
the EEAG had 27 associated partners (see Annex at the end
of this Annual Report). We know that they are supportive to
our intentions.

Next Steps : We realized that once we would have a suffi-
cient number of stakeholders from various categories
(academia, professional organisations, industry) signing
up and supporting the EEAG initiative, we could officially
launch the EEAG. However, we would also need to focus It is a pan-European alliance bringing together engineering
on a more hands-on action plan or particular project to schools, companies and associations in a shared vision for
continue capturing their attention, involvement and interest. 2030, to benefit students, lifelong learners, educators,
We therefore asked many of them to engage as a partner employers, policymakers and society at large. Within the five
in developing a common project, entitled E4E or “Engineers main outputs E4E will monitor the engineering profession in
for Europe”. Twelve of the 27 partners did and a first prepar- Europe, list the industry’s core competences in a compass,
atory meeting was held on 7 June 2019. register micro-credentials in engineering fields, validate
engineering competence with a certification badge and
This project embraces new trends in engineering education match engineering expertise supply and demand in an app.
and boost industry innovation by co-creating and rolling out This project will be submitted for funding under ERASMUS+
five new tools in six pilot countries (FR, DE, IE, IT, PL, PT). in 2020 and we trust, will receive a positive evaluation.