On Monday, 23 June 2025, ENGINEERS EUROPE hosted the Closing Event of our Engineers4Europe (E4E) project, held at the EESC’s TEN Committee (Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and Information Society).
As a proud member of the E4E project consortium, we actively contributed to the success and strategic outcomes of the project over the past three years, bringing in our wide range of expertise in the field of sustainable building technologies and engineering skills development.
All ideas, strategies, insights, measures and the shared learnig plattform are highlights of this project and now published in the last issue of “E4E-Skills Strategy” — including all results of the analysis of the demand and the supply side, the future challenges and work programme as an observatory, all conclusions of the E4E Research, the ways to pursue for the stakeholders – all accompanied with best practice examples and statements of testimonials.
FULL STATEMENT of Klaus Thürriedl, ECEC-Secretary General:
- Never stop learning – that’s life: In the working life we are forced to switch from one field to another. We have to deal with market changes, which are faster than ever. And with this speed we have to train our students, how somethings works or how they get in touch with new innovations – in being openminded.
- Life-long learning – even every-day-learning is a mission: Technology and research are fast tracks. Upskilling is absolutely necessary. The trend is implementing hard and soft skills in a company framework with cloudbased training documents or trainings on current processes – like AI. The challenge is to find the balance between uncomfortable things, the needs for a better future and creating comfort zones.
- Open for the world and learning form feedback: New things and technologies need special expertise and so we are pushed to learn new things for a long career. Granting education for the employees is an obligation for companies and competiveness. Young graduates are our future – therefore we should teach them everything for a robust business life with continuous processes of feedback to improve the growth of knowledge.
- Not only for business – although for yourself: Getting new information is part of our daily routines. We are forced in being online. After the study you land in the real world and so trainings and seminars help you going on. Everything you do, should be for yourself, your future and the next steps in perfecting the own workspace. Important is the direct cooperation between universities, industries and companies because all courses should be nearer to the companies’ needs.
LIFELONG LEARNING AS A CHANCE IN SHOWONG COMPETENCES!
“Lifelong learning should be rated equally high as the academic education itself. Every 5 to 7 years our basic requirements, regulations and laws and even the (sustainable) materials change completely and therefore we all have the obligation staying up to date – especially for the Green and Blue Deal. Our chambers guarantee the public trust by law and it’s our mission to provide knowledge and lifelong learning. As liberal professionals or with an industrial background we all need professional skills – even in business development or public relations!”
CLOSING WORDS:
ECEC is proud to have been part of this essential and future-oriented project and remains committed to promoting high-level engineering education and skill development for the Chartered Engineers of Europe.
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Find here the E4E-Skills Strategy (issued in June 2025)