In November 2021, at the 41th session of the General Conference of UNESCO, 193 Member States unanimously adopted the first global standard-setting instrument on open science, the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.
Developed through a regionally balanced multistakeholder, inclusive and transparent consultation process, this landmark international agreement defines shared values and principles for open science, ...
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The Institution of Engineers Mauritius, led by President Shyam Roy, collaborated with engineers in Mauritius and internationally to publish a special journal, “Impact of Climate Change on SIDS, What Engineering Solutions?” (available in this link).
Engineers from Mauritius and around the world presented their work to mitigate the risk of ...
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The World Federation of Engineering Organisations congratulates Eng. Raj Hemansing Prayag, for being awarded a national honour, The Grand Officer of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean by the President of the Republic of Mauritius on the National Day of Mauritius, 12 March 2022, for significant contribution to the public sector.
Eng. Raj Hemansing ...
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The WFEO awarding ceremony was held on Tuesday 12 April 2022.
Opening:
Prof. Gong Ke, WFEO Immediate past President
Welcome address:
Dr. Shamila Nair-Bedouelle, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences
Moderator:
Ania Lopez, chair of the Awards Committee and member of the WFEO Executive Council
Laureate of the WFEO Gree Women in Engineering Award:
Wai Yie Leong ...
The International Centre for Engineering Education (ICEE) a UNESCO Category 2 centre based at Tsinghua University, Beijing and a partner of WFEO, hosted its 2022 Academic Forum on Engineering Education and Engineering Culture with the theme “Engineering Education Reform and Sustainable Development – Call ...
The International Network for Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES), WFEO, the International Science Council (ISC) and the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU CRS) jointly hosted the parallel event “Women Leading on Equitable and Inclusive Solutions to address ...
The World Federation of Engineering Organizations proudly launched the WFEO ACADEMY training portal on World Engineering Day, on 4 March 2022, with UNESCO and its partners, the International Engineering Alliance (IEA), the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) and the
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The World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development, on 4th March 2022, was a great success. The celebration of the Day reached more than 56 million via social media channels, which, to our knowledge, has never been achieved before for an engineering event.
The theme of World Engineering Day 2022 was Build ...
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The sixty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) was held from 14 to 25 March 2022. Representatives of Member States, UN entities, and ECOSOC-accredited (NGOs) from all regions of the world were expected to attend the session.
The CSW66 priority theme for 2022 was “Achieving gender equality and ...
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The UNESCO Natural Sciences Sector hosted on 4 March 2022 an international roundtable to celebrate World Engineering Day for Sustainable development 2022. The Theme of the Round table was aligned with the theme of the 2022 celebrations: “Build Back Wiser – Engineering the Future” and asked the important question: “What can we do to Engineer ...