The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiation meetings took place in Bonn, Germany, from 8 to 18 May 2017.
At this occasion, Darrel Danyluk, leader of the Climate Change Adaptation theme for the WFEO Committee on Engineering and ...
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The 4th World Landslide Forum was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 30th to June 2nd, 2017, with over 600 active participants from 51 countries – scientists, engineers, researchers, experts, politicians and other decision makers working in the area of landslide risk reduction. Among them, there were over 120 graduate students from Slovenia and other ...
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Women engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs from more than 30 countries in Asia and Africa, came together at the 3rd International ISTIC UNESCO Conference on “Women in Science, Technology & Innovation: Innovative Solutions by Women for the UN Sustainable Development Goals ...
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The International Engineering Education Forum on the Construction of Engineering Education and Engineering Capacity for the Future, hosted by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), Tsinghua University and the International Centre for Engineering Education (ICEE) of UNESCO was held in ...
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Members of WFEO UN Relations Committee (WURC) participated in the UN second Multi Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation with a side event on Science, Engineering and Technology for Smart, Sustainable Cities and ...
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The WFEO Standing Technical Committee on Information and Communication (WFEO-CIC) hosted by the Institution of Engineers, India (IEI) partnered with the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) to host the International Seminar on Internet of Things (IoT) on 13th May in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The seminar attracted more than 200 engineering ...
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On March 13th 2017, the opening day of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at UN Headquarters in New York, WFEO participated in a high level forum organised by UNESCO on the importance of engineering and science in empowering women in a technology-led world of work. This was an important side event that occurred at the ...
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The twenty-second session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22), the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12), and the first session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the ...
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President orge Spitalnik attended on December 2nd the International Forum on Accreditation and Professional Licensing of Engineers in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by FEIAP in Lima, and made an invited introductory speech on WFEO position on international systems for engineering education accreditation.
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The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is a specialized agency in the United Nations system which primary objective is the promotion and acceleration of industrial development in developing countries and countries with economies in transition and the promotion of international industrial cooperation. It is also a member of the United Nations Development Group.
UNIDO believes that competitive and environmentally sustainable ...
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