EuroPsy
The EuroPsy is a European standard of education and training that enables individual psychologists to be recognised as having a European-level qualification in psychology. It is based on six-years of education and training in psychology, including a year of supervised practice. EuroPsy was developed in order to set a quality benchmark of education and practice in psychology, and therefore to protect the public, and to improve mobility for psychologists between countries in Europe. EuroPsy is based on EuroPsyT “A framework for education and training of psychologists in Europe” which was accepted by EFPA (the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations) in 2001.
Psychologists reaching the EuroPsy standard are recorded in the Register of European Psychologists, which distinguishes three broad professional contexts (and a fourth category for those who do not fit the others): education, clinical & health, organisation & work.
The EuroPsy completed piloting in late 2008 (in Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) and will be launched in July 2009 at the EFPA General Assembly in Oslo, which takes place after the European Congress of Psychology.