In celebration of the International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) 2022, the WFEO Committee Women in Engineering (WIE) invited the winners of the WFEO GREE Women in Engineering Award 2020 in a webinar themed “Leadership for Innovation in Engineering” in line with the INWED 2022 theme: “Inventors & ...
WFEO organized, with the support of UNESCO, the side event “Utilizing Open Science Principles for Quality Engineering Education to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals” during the United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) on 6 July 2022.
The United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development ...
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See below an article from the March 2022 edition of the magazine “Human Futures”, by World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) publication.
With Dawn Bonfield, MBE, Deputy chair of the WFEO Committee on Women in Engineering & Claire A. Nelson, Chief Ideation ...
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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 (Malaysia)
Laureate ...
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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 ...
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 the ...
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The WFEO Committee on Women in Engineering (WIE) organized the Virtual CSW66 Parallel Event “Creating Gender Inclusive Engineering & Technology to Address Climate Change” on Monday 21 March 2022.
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The Rising to the Top book series has added not one, but TWO new volumes! Rising to the Top is a series of books, pioneered by the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) and the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC), detailing the stories of female engineering leaders across the globe working in ...
At the occasion of the Intersessional panel of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) held in Geneva, Switzerland, between 17 and 19 November 2021, Yvette Ramos, member of the WFEO Committee on ...
The International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) and Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) hosted their annual WEEF (World Engineering Education Forum) integrating Academia, Industry, Social Institutions, Associations and Students, in Madrid from 15 to 18 November 2021. The Forum theme was “Diversity and Ethics in Education for an Inclusive and Sustainable World”.
IFEES and GEDC are ...
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