Message from WFEO President Dr Gong Ke to all members of WFEO, highlighting the crucial role that engineers have to play together to fight the COVID-19 progression rapidly. Engineering and Engineers are needed now more than ever !

Engineering: Stepping up to the challenge of coronavirus and other global threats: WFEO has followed the developments in the global spread of COVID-19 with deep concern, both for those affected and those on the frontline of response. In English / Chinese.

WFEO, in the frame of the UNFCCC COP25, held in Madrid from 2 to 13 December 2019, expresses its deep concern on the matter of Climate emergency, by summarizing its position and commitment to act quickly through this Declaration.

UN / WFEO Call for Innovations

Given the current concerns regarding Covid-19 disease, the second United Nations Global Sustainable Transport Conference will be postponed. Accordingly, the deadline of this Call for Innovations will be extended, and the submission will remain open.

Declaration on Global Engineering Education Standards and Capacity Building

The Declaration on Global Engineering Education Standards and Capacity Building for Sustainable Development was signed by WFEO, UNESCO and International Engineering Alliance on need to work together for internationally recognised engineering education standards.

Joint Capacity Building Workshop on STI

The UN-MoST Joint Capacity Building Workshop on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development (STI), organized by UN-DESA, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, and UN-ESCAP was held from 9 to 17 December in Guilin, China.

CEIT Innovation Stories 01 – Blasting Away the Iced Floods

The WFEO Committee on Engineering for Innovative Technologies (CEIT) wrote an innovation story about a group of young engineers in the field of water who have developed a new toolbox on the freezingly cold river ice to prevent ice-jam flooding in the high-latitude northeastern area of China.