Organized by the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee in close cooperation with the UNESCO Secretariat, the 11th International Forum of NGOs in official partnership with UNESCO took place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France, on 16 and 17 December 2019, on the theme ...
The World Federation of Engineering Organisations held its biennial General Assembly, its annual Executive Council meeting and various board and committee meetings in Melbourne on 18-24 November 2019. The meetings were hosted by Engineers Australia, the national member for Australia. Approximately 70 members and associates were represented in Melbourne to attend the meetings and the World ...
The World Engineers Convention 2019, featured a successful plenary session on engineering education which was hosted by the World Federation of Engineering Organisations.
The session was held on 21 November 2019 at the Melbourne Convention Centre and was called: “World Engineering Education – the paradigm shift to engineer the future”
The session was moderated by Dr Marlene Kanga, ...
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The Civil Society Organization Forum (CSO) Forum took place on 24 September 2019 in Conference Room 4 at UN Headquarters in New York.
The Civil Society SDG Forum aims to create a space for constructive and propositional dialogue between civil society and UN Member States, international organizations and other related constituencies on the possible responses to the challenges exposed by ...
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The 63rd Annual Regular Session of the IAEA General Conference was held from 16 to 20 September 2019 at the Vienna International Centre (VIC) in Vienna, Austria, where high-ranking officials and representatives from IAEA Member States will consider a range of issues.
WFEO Immediate Past-President Engr. Jorge Spitalnik and Executive Vice-President Engr. Reginald Vachon participated in the 63rd Congress as representatives ...
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Innovation is one of the crucial drivers for the development of many aspects of modern society, in particular engineering that depends on new ideas and technologies to plan, design, build, maintain, and life-cycle management. It is embedded in the Sustainable ...
The WFEO Committee on Information and Communication (WFEO-CIC) in association with the Institution of Engineers India, the Federation of Myanmar Engineering Society (MES) & the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) organised an International Seminar on “Smart Cities-The Evolution of Urban Development” on 29th August ...
The World Robot Conference 2019 (WRC 2019), supported by WFEO, was successfully held from 20 to 25 August in Beijing, China. The theme of WRC 2019 was “Creating Intelligent Momentum for a New Era of Openness and Shared ...
The 2019 edition of the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2019) under the auspices of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) focused on “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”.
The session took place from 9 to 15 July 2019 in New York, at the UN Headquarters, and conducted in-depth reviews of five Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG 4 (quality education), SDG 8 (decent work ...
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The International conference on “Engineering and Food Security in Africa”, held in Tunis, Tunisia, 24-25 June 2019, was organised by the Order of Tunisian Engineers, an important national member ...