Posts Tagged 'Goal 5 – Gender Equality'

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)

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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 Climate ...

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 empowerment ...

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.

This year, the theme for the annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW66) event, organized by Continue Reading →

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 male-dominated ...

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 Women in ...

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 important ...

The Institution of Engineers Kenya (IEK), the national WFEO member from Kenya, hosted the 28th International Conference in Mombasa, Kenya, from 8 to 11 November 2021. The Conference theme was “Engineers Accelerating Sustainable Economic Recovery”. The Engineers Board of Kenya was a co-host of this important event.

The importance of ...