Agreements: AQPE

From the beginning of our activity, one of our main challenges was to find effective ways to facilitate the mobility of engineers beyond our borders. For this reason, we conceived the Professional Engineer certification as a future nexus between the rest of Europe's certifications, together with the other advantages that come with the accreditation of professional skills.

The practice of certifying the skills of engineers has a long tradition in the United Kingdom, beginning in the 19th century. In this country, the importance of this fact was understood for more than 200 years, to help make visible the skills of committed professionals who wanted to take their careers to new levels.

For this reason, we are pleased to announce our recent agreement with the Engineering Council, the UK's certification body for engineering skills, bringing more immediate validation across our qualifications. The similarities we share in our certification processes, based on the UK-SPEC standard, help us offer direct recognition of the Professional Engineer certification for Spanish engineers looking to increase their employment opportunities in the UK. In this way, we want to minimize as much as possible any duplication in the process of accreditation of skills in the English country, while facilitating the recognition of professional skills in both jurisdictions.

Alasdair Coates, CEO of the Engineering Council, said: “Mutual recognition of professional registration between the UK and Spain is important, and this agreement provides reassurance to registrants that recognition of their professional competence will continue. Engineering is a global profession, and the aim of the Engineering Council's international activity is to ensure that our standards are recognized globally, and to facilitate the international mobility of engineering professionals".

We celebrate seeing how our mission to connect and create new job opportunities for engineers is beginning to be fulfilled, bringing tangible results for certified professionals with international ambitions.

Find out more about the Engineering Council here: https://www.engc.org.uk

and about the Chartered/Incorporated Engineer: https://www.engc.org.uk/professional-registration/

Take advantage of this agreement and process your certification.

You can start the process here: https://www.aqpe.org/#formulari