1. European Society for Engineering Education
At Engineers Europe Meeting in Brussels – 11 June 2018
Mike Murphy – SEFI President
Francoise Come – SEFI Secretary General

2. Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs European Society for Engineering Education
Non governmental non-for-profit association
Focused on Higher Engineering Education
Established by 21 Rectors of Technical Universities in 1973
Biggest network of this type in Europe: 41
countries
300
members
120
member institutions

3. Who are SEFI members? Institutions Individuals
Institutions of a high level (post secondary) that offer a complete curriculum leading to an academic engineering degree.
Individuals
Persons involved in the engineering education and the improvement of the engineering profession, and individuals interested in joining our Working groups or EEDC.
Associations and related members
Professional societies or other organisations interested in initial or continuing education of engineers as well as student organisations.
Companies
Any industrial company, public administration or other organisation having an interest in supporting European Engineering Education.

4. Goal: Improvement of Engineering Education
Networking – Scientific Conferences, Deans’ platform, Workshops
Publishing – European Journal of Engineering Education
Regular Thematic Working Groups
Outreach – EU debates, Social Media
European Projects
Recognition in form of awards

5. Meet with SEFI Upcoming annual conference
Scientific conference on engineering education in Europe
Technical University of Denmark
Early bird registrations – 17 July 2018
sefi2018.eu

6. Participate in SEFI Working Groups
Attractiveness
Enhancing the attractiveness of engineering education to potential students - academics, industrialists
Ethics
Indicating skills needed for ethical decision making and action.
Gender and Diversity
Identifying best practices to attract and retain female students and increasing gender awareness among academic staff
Engineering Education Research
European community of researchers of engineering education, work on European research projects
Engineering Skills
Updating a set of skills needed for successful integration into professional environment.
Open and Online Education
new technologies that provide more students with access to engineering education; new possible educational formats

7. Participate in SEFI Working Groups
Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning
Development and research into both theory and practice about CEE and lifelong learning
Curriculum Development
Becoming aware of the interests of students from different countries as well as those of a dynamic society
Sustainability
Investigating the field of sustainability with respect to impact on engineering education.
Mathematics
Role of Mathematics in EE and its practical application in professional life, use of technology, the ways of teaching, learning.
Physics
It is a forum of sharing challenges and solutions and it organizes a PTEE conference on every two years.
Quality Assurance & Accreditation
Student and teacher mobility, qualifications frameworks as well as the increase of the cooperation between institutions in EHEA

8. SEFI, Universities and Business
Facilitating cooperation – in all our platforms
Annual conference – regular round table meeting
European Projects
EBCC Model – strengthen the involvement of universities with steering the innovation in local businesses
PREFER Project – reduce the skills mismatch in the field of engineering. Young engineering graduates often display a lack of self- awareness of who they are as an engineer.

9. SEFI helps catalyse European projects
Consortium assembly, Project design, Administration, Meetings hosting, Dissemination € € €
EBCC  Education, Business and Community Cooperation Model for a Creative European Engineering Education (Strategic partnership ERASMUS +): budget pour deux ans , € (31600€ pour la SEFI, management, dissemaintion and multiplier events during conferences)
PREFER  Professional Roles and Employability of Future EngineeRs (Knowledge alliance, ERASMUS +): budget pour trois ans € (7800€ pour la SEFI - active surtout pendant année III)
Terminés:
ReadyStem Go  Early identification of STEM readiness and targeted academic interventions (Strategic partnership ERASMUS +) : budget pour trois ans , € (14725€ (multiplier events during conference)  pour la SEFI)
EPICES- EPICES – European Platform for Innovation and Collaboration between Engineer Student  (Strategic Partnership ERASMUS +): budget pour deux ans €, (14925€ pour la SEFI - dissemination and management) €

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