The Institution of Engineers Rwanda (IER), together with WFEO, the Rwanda Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA), UNESCO and the Federation Of African Engineering Organisations hosted the Global Engineering Conference (GECO) from 15 to 18 October 2024 at the Kigali ...
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The 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, more commonly referred to as COP29, was the 29th United Nations Climate Change conference, held from 11 to 22 November 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The COP29 Presidency’s plan was based on two mutually reinforcing parallel pillars. ...
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The 2024 World Science and Technology Development Forum (WSTDF 2024), organized by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), was held from 22 to 24 October 2024 in Beijing, China.
WFEO President Mustafa Shehu had nominated Er Ashok Basa, WFEO Executive Vice President, to represent WFEO in this event.
The theme of ...
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The WFEO Committee on Young Engineers/Future Leaders (WFEO-YEFL) hosted the webinar “Leveraging Satellite Data to Address Poverty: Innovations and Impacts” on 20 November 2024.
The recording is available by clicking on the below image.
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On 18 October 2024, leaders of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO), representing some 30 million engineers, and its sister organization, the Atlas Initiative for Climate Resilient Infrastructure (Atlas), a global leader in sustainability and disaster resilience, held a bilateral meeting with high-level representatives of the World Bank on ...
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The WFEO Committee on Anti-Corruption (WFEO-CAC), in collaboration with the Global Infrastructure Anti-corruption Center (GIACC) and the Geneva-based Globethics Foundation, organized the launch event of the “Training-of-Trainers Programme on Preventing and Investigating Corruption” that was held on 10 October 2024.
The ...
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We are pleased to announce that Marie-Line Vaiani, Chair of the Energy Committee of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and Secretary General of the French Energy Council, has been appointed as a member of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET).
The CEET is an ...
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After nine previous successful offerings and more than 10,000 participants worldwide, Engineers Canada and Polytechnique Montréal have opened registration for a tenth offering of their free online course, Sustainability in Practice. Register here / S’inscrire ici.
The massive open online course is offered in ...
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The 8th World Robot Conference 2024 (WRC 2024), supported by WFEO and co organized by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), was held from 21 to 25 August 2024 in Beijing, China.
The WRC 2024 aimed at promoting scientific and technological progress under the new industrial development trends in the ...
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The World Federation of Engineering Organizations is a Category A Liaison Organization of the International Standards Organization (ISO) Technical Committee (TC) 309 – Governance of Organizations. Representatives from WFEO have been nominated representatives to this Committee for several years.
TC309 has published a number of important standards including:
Standards due to publish by end of 2024: