The EUR-ACE label is awarded by the CTI, Commission des Titres d'Ingénieurs for 6 years.

The EUR-ACE label is awarded by the CTI, Commission des Titres d'Ingénieurs. Its role is above all to facilitate student international mobility.

• Who grants it?

This European label that has existed since 2007 is managed by the ENAEE association (European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education), which brings together different engineering training accreditation agencies. It has two levels: bachelor and master. Today the authorisation authorities of France (CTI), Germany, Great Britain, Portugal, Ireland, Russia and Turkey are authorised to issue the label.

• How?

In France, it's the CTI that issues the EUR-ACE label for 6 years. It gives it automatically to training courses to which it issues or renews the engineering qualification for 6 years (maximum duration). An engineering course labelled EUR-ACE therefore belongs to schools that satisfy the highest standards. Once the diploma under your belt, students on a training course labelled EUR-ACE are guaranteed to have a range of skills and knowledge in accordance with European standards. Bernard Remaud, president of the CTI, points out: EUR-ACE isn't a label of excellence, but a label of quality.

• What EUR-ACE guarantees?
  

This label must facilitate student mobility. A French engineering student wishing to complete a semester or a year abroad can apply for a EUR-ACE programme outside of France. On the other hand, to back up his or her application to a foreign university he or she can boast of doing a labelled course. In the long run, this label could also be an asset to promote to recruiters.

• What EUR-ACE doesn't guarantee

Created in 2007 the EUR-ACE label is still relatively unknown. We will have to wait a few more years for it to become widespread and gain in importance. Another disadvantage: the accreditation has two levels, bachelor and master.

• Labelled schools

Some 350 engineering training courses have the accreditation of which 110 in France (spread out over 52 schools).

source : educpros.fr