The project to connect Sicily with the Italian mainland by a bridge over the Straight of Messina was first talked of many years ago but is finally being taken seriously.
SEP
2020
The WFEO Engineering for Innovative Technologies Committee and the Young Engineers / Future Leaders Committee organized the webinar “A Sustainable Future: Young Engineers and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)” on the 18th September 2020, during the 23rd China Beijing International High-Tech Expo (CHITEC).
Young Engineers have ...
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2020
WFEO, representing the Scientific and Technological Community Major Group (STC MG) at the UN, has successfully hosted a side event of the UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) virtually with the theme “How the Lever of Science and Technology Can Be Used in Peri-urban and Urban Environments to Advance Sustainable Development: the Case of Implementing Geospatial Engineering” on 9th ...
JUL
2020
The WFEO Committee on Young Engineers / Future Leaders organised the first webinar of its serie Engineering the Future #1 Resilience and Sustainability for Young Engineers on 22 July 2020.
This webinar explored the various aspects of engineering and the indispensable role it has in resilient and sustainable societies. The COVID-19 pandemic has ...
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2020
A successful international webinar on “Global Engineering in the Context of COVID-19” was held on 8th June 2020 on the occasion of the celebration of the 58th anniversary of the Peruvian Engineers Association (CIP), an important national member of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO). The recording is available
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JUL
2020
On July 2nd 2020, WFEO President Gong Ke together with Executive Vice President Mustafa Shehu attended the online Memorandum of Understanding Signing Ceremony between the Federation of Engineering Institutions in Asia and the Pacific (FEIAP) and the Federation of African Engineering Organizations (FAEO).
The MoU was agreed upon between ...
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2020
The Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and its associated societies hosted an international webinar on global development and governance in science and technology on 30th May 2020, the 4th National Science and Technology Workers’ Day.
This Day celebrates the contributions of science and technology workers and acknowledges the knowledge, talents and ...
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2020
The World Federation of Engineering Organisations hosted a successful consultation webinar on the draft International Standard ISO DIS 37000 Guidance for the Governance of Organisations on 11 July 2020. The event was attended by delegates from more than 20 countries.
The proposed structure of the draft ISO DIS 37000 Standard and key areas of interest to ...
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2020
A successful international Webinar on Responsibility and Accountability of Stakeholders in the Construction Industry was held on 4th July 2020 in Rangoon, Myanmar, with speakers from Malaysia and Australia.
The release of the WFEO, World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC) and UN Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) joint report entitled “White Paper: Resilient Infrastructure – Geospatial & BIM” (available here) has been announced on 9th June during the
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JUL
2020