President of engineering accreditation network says EUR-ACE label could shape a strong European degree

News Tank Academic - Brussels - Interview #436236 - Published on 21/09/26 at 12:21
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The EUR-ACE label for engineering degrees, created in 2000, could be the basis for a European degree in engineering and other fields, according to the head of a group of accreditation agencies for engineering.

José Carlos Quadrado, president of the Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE), told News Tank on 18/09/2026: "ENAEE started working on how a European engineering degree could be recognised in 2000. We created the EUR-ACE label... It's working quite well. Now the label has gone beyond Europe. We believe it could be the basis for a very strong European degree in engineering and for other fields".

Quadrado said that the EUR-ACE label was built on trust among the different accreditation agencies. The system did not require a programme to be recognised in many countries to be a European degree; it could be recognised in just one and all the others would accept it. The system was not built on agreements, but on continuous supervision among agencies, with peers reviewing them. For each programme under review, agencies must submit it to a committee composed of…

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