About The V4E Board

The Value for Europe (V4E) Board is responsible for the development and application of its Value Management (VM) Training and Certification System (V4E-TCS).

Value for Europe (V4E) is a not for profit Company registered and operating under French law. It works through National Value Associations (NVAs) who have their National Certification Organisations (NCOs), who through nominated representatives endorsed by the NVAs, form the V4E Board and who commit to abide by the rules of the V4E Board. In return the V4E Board grant those NCOs the authority to administer the V4E Training and Certification System (V4E-TCS) and award value management qualifications and the V4E Board look to the NVAs to promote world class Value Management in accordance with the European Standards (EN12973, EN1325, EN16271 and EN17952) on which the V4E-TCS is based .

The remit of the V4E Board is to:

Promote world class Value Management through member NVAs and related Standards, Training and Certification through their member NCOs
Establish, review, develop and codify the rules and operating standards of the V4E-TCS
Approve NCOs as qualification bodies within the V4E-TCS and ensure that those NCOs comply with the rules of the V4E-TCS
Achieve consistency in training and certification
Establish standards of conduct for qualified value practitioners
Arbitrate in any disputes relating to the V4E-TCS or its application
Determine any reciprocity arrangements between the V4E-TCS and any other training and certification system
Qualify and admit new NVAs and their NCOs who wish to join the V4E Board

The V4E Board comprises two types of member

Full Members

Who are the nominated representative of participating NCOs endorsed by their respective NVAs. These members have voting rights.

Associate Members

Who wish to be involved with the System but do not have an NCO. These members do not have voting rights.

THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS ARE NATIONAL VALUE ASSOCIATIONS (NVAs) AND NATIONAL CERTIFICATION ORGANISATIONS (NCOs) AND CONSTITUTE FULL MEMBERSHIP OF THE V4E BOARD:

Austria – Institut Fur Innovations-und Trendforschung(IITF)
Belgium – Association pour le développement de l’analyse de la valeur (AVD)
France – Association Francaise pour l’Analyse de la Valeur (AFAV)
Germany – Association of German Engineers, Technical Division VM/VA (VDI)
Hungary – Society of the Hungarian Value Analysts (SHVA)
Netherlands –Dutch Association of Cost & Value Engineers (DACE)
Spain – Value Creation Association-Associació Catalana d’Anàlisi del Valor (VCA-ACAV)
UK – The Institute of Value Management, (IVM)

In addition the following countries have an observer status:

Italy – Associazione Italiana per l’Analisi e la gestione del Valore (AIAV)
Norway (Currently inactive member)
Portugal – Associação Portuguesa para a Análise do Valor (APAV) (Currently inactive member)

The V4E Board elect a President, and two Vice Presidents, and together with the immediate Past President, these four constitute the Council. Council members are elected for 3 years and are mandated to make decisions on behalf of the V4E Board between meetings if circumstances dictate.