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Today the process of accreditation of educational programs is widely recognized as one the most efficient ways to improve the quality of education and as an entry route to the engineering profession. It is crucial to develop system of continuous programs improvement at universities through an independent external accreditation of educational programs by the agencies representing national and international professional community. The formal outcome of external examination process is regarded as the credibility to the program from graduates’ consumers, international recognition of the educational program facilitating its competitiveness, and the main result is a real quality improvement of educational programs. The first steps in setting up and implementing a system of Quality Assurance of engineering education in Central Asia were made within the TEMPUS project QUEECA (Quality of Engineering Education in Central Asia) started in 2012. One of the project aims is to develop the system of professional accreditation of engineering educational programmes based on European best practices and meeting the requirements of the EUR-ACE Framework Standards and the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. In framework of the project activities a series of training workshops for experts in preparing programs for professional accreditation were run in 4 CA countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The paper presents detailed description of the experts’ training, its objectives, teaching and learning methods and final outcomes. The rationale, development and main principles of the EUR-ACE Standards are summarized.