European Young Engineers


The European Young Engineers is a European non-profit organisation, listed in the register of Engineering associations of the World Federation of Engineering Associations. 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 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 23 associations and representing more than 250.000 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.

Objectives

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:
#DateLocationThemeFurther information
1June 1995Amsterdam, Netherlands
2November 1995Antwerp, Belgium
3June 1996Rotterdam, Netherlands
4October 1996Dublin, Ireland
5Jun 1997Copenhagen, Denmark
6November 1997Karlsruhe, Germany
7June 1998London, UK
8November 1998Budapest, Hungary
9June 1999Brussels, Belgium
10November 1999Utrecht, Netherlands
11June 2000Hanover, Germany
12November 2000Helsinki, Finland
13May 2001Copenhagen, Denmark
14November 2001Paris, France
15May 2002Bruges, Belgium
16November 2002The Hague, Netherlands
17June 2003Helsinki, Finland
18November 2003Cologne, Germany“International Management – New International Challenges”
19June 2004London, UK“Managing People for Business”
20November 2004Strasbourg, France“International Management - New International Challenges”
21June 2005Cardiff, UK“Entrepreneurship”
22November 2005Leuven, Belgium“Surface of Innovating Life”
23May 2006Sofia, Bulgaria“European Union and Challenges for the Young Engineers”
24October 2006Salerno, Italy
25June 2007Enschede, Netherlands“People”
26October 2007Valletta, Malta“Networking Europe through Engineering”
27May 2008Copenhagen, Denmark“Exploring Environmental Sustainability”
28October 2008Düsseldorf, Germany“Do it with a European Engineer”
29May 2009Hasselt,“Energy of the Future”
30June 2010Glasgow, UK“Innovating to meet our Global Challenges”
31November 2010Salerno, Italy“Standarisation in a Global World”
32June 2011Varna, Bulgaria“Engineering the Future”
33September 2011Geneva, SwitzerlandJoint conference with World Engineers Congress “Facing the Global Energy Challenge”
34June 2012Rotterdam, Netherlands
35October 2012Valletta, Malta“Overcoming Limitations”
36June 2013Dublin, Ireland“Engineering Connections”
37September 2013Antwerp, Belgium“Move. Transport. Transcend.”
38May 2014Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina“Common Purpose: Together, Stronger, into the Future!”
39October 2015Lisbon, Portugal"Collaborative Engineering - The European Way"
40May 2016Hannover, Germany"Digital Transformation"
41June 2017Bristol, UK"Ideas are international"
42May 2018Sofia, Bulgaria"Sustainable Engineering"
43October 2018Valletta, Malta"Emerging Technology"
44May 2019Eindhoven, Netherlands"Shaping Future Society"