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REPORTS OF THE NATIONAL MEMBERS 53

REPORT OF THE NORWEGIAN FEANI
NATIONAL COMMITTEE

Norwegian National Committee for FEANI
Year of Adhesion: 1965
Declared engineers: 134 000
Number of EUR INGs: 196
Member associations: The two Norwegian Engineers organizations, Tekna (The
Norwegian Society of Graduate Technical and Scientific Professionals) and NITO
(Norwegian Society of Engineers and Technologists) are both recognized by the
national authorities. This means that both organizations are represented various
official bodies, among them the Council of Engineering Education, and other official
bodies concerned with engineering matters.
PO Box 1636 Vika - NO-0119 OSLO
Tel: +47 22 05 35 00
epost@nito.no
www.tekna.no
www.nito.no

The Norwegian economy has continued to recover after in reaching these ambitious targets, from decent working
four years due to the decline in the oil and gas sector. conditions to combatting climate change. Also, to note that
Unemployment is still high and TEKNA and NITO have Oslo became the “European Sustainability Capitol 2019”.
been working with different initiatives to address this
challenge. This involves emerging discussions about further
qualification of the workforce due to new technologies,
digitalization and globalization: how to help the workforce to
be ahead of the coming changes through lifelong/continues
learning (“on the job training” together with university and
governmental schemes). Tekna passed 80.000 members,
while NITO passed 90.000 members.

UN Sustainability Goals (SDG)
The SDG have taken a major part in activities, strategic devel-
opment and focus throughout 2018 and 2019. The SDG were
integrated into the association policies. Both member organi-
zations have been working systematically to do their part Mr Markussen with Mr Bochar