Stage 1: information
Contact the FEDE by email at mailbox@fede.education or by using the above contact form in order to obtain information on the FEDE and its activities or to begin the membership application process.
Etape 2: application
Candidate institutions must fill out the and return it to the FEDE accompanied by:
- any document to support the membership application;
- all the evidence requested;
- the application fee;
- membership fees (to be processed only if the institution is officially admitted by the FEDE’s sovereign body – the Committee).
The institution must familiarise itself with the detailed membership procedure.
Etape 3: examination of the application
Complete applications are studied by the FEDE Presidency.
If considered necessary by the Presidency, a competent and impartial FEDE representative will be designated to visit the institution and issue his/her opinion on its suitability for membership.
The Presidency will include the candidate institution’s membership application in the agenda of the FEDE Committee and will present the application to the Committee members.
The FEDE Committee will arrive at a decision concerning the admission of the candidate institution. One of the following decisions will be issued: favourable, unfavourable, further investigation required.
The FEDE Committee meets once per quarter.
Stage 4: membership
If the Committee issues a favourable decision:
The Presidency includes the newly admitted institution in the register of FEDE member institutions.
The institution must pay the membership fee for the current year.
Stage 5: the institution becomes a FEDE member
The new FEDE member joins the network and is entitled to the full range of FEDE tools and services.
As soon as the institution has been definitively admitted, it may, in conformity with the FEDE Statutes and Rules of Procedure:
- use the FEDE’s logos and symbols in its publications;
- enrol its students in FEDE examinations and qualifications and offer them the tools and services provided by the FEDE to its member institutions: European degrees, international accreditations, the FEDE DBA, Dual Degrees, learning resources, FEDE publications etc.;
- participate in the FEDE’s activities;
- benefit from the support of the European organisation with participatory status at the Council of Europe.