1 Introduction

1.1 Statement

FIDIC, as the world’s leading organization representing the international consulting engineering industry, recognizes the importance of Young Professionals (YPs) to the industry, and also to society.   FIDIC describes a young professional as “The Future Leader” who will fill the leadership gap in the next generation. In other words, young professionals are the Talent‐Pipeline of the consulting engineering industry, and it is important to keep them engaged within the consulting engineering community.

Throughout its history, FIDIC has exercised its mandate in the produ tion of various documents, contract forms, guides and manuals to assist Consulting Engineers worldwide to perform and deliver services to their clients and to improve their performance and serviceability.

  The present document is a Guide to assist FIDIC Member Associations (MAs) in establishing a Young Professional Forum (YPF), and providing inspiration to existing YPFs for continued development.

This is the second edition of the Guide, where the first edition was issued in 2013 and was prepared by the FIDIC Young Professional Steering Committee chaired by S. Wilson. The Guide was authored by the Steering Committee Task Force chaired by A. Stifi and including T. Kitano, S. Davidson, H. Ghellali and J. Albtoush.

FIDIC YPFSC would like to thank all YPFs, who supported the development of this document for their contributions to “YPF Success Stories” in the attached Appendices.

FIDIC would be pleased to receive feedback from the users of this Guide on its usefulness and areas for improvement. FIDIC contact email: [email protected]

The Guide is free of charge and can be downloaded from the FIDIC YPF Webpage.

1.2 Purpose of the Guide

This Guide has two main purposes:

 1. Outline steps to assist Member Associations in starting or improving theiir own Young Professional Forum (YPF).

 2. Create a reference document as a source of inspiration to generate ideas and share knowledge between YPFs across‐Member Associations to strengthen YPFs.

The Guide has been developed as a living document and will be updated as an information‐driven guide, especially through update of attached Appendices, which describe how members Associations have successfully established their own YPFs.