Former WFEO President Dr Marlene Kanga AO has been awarded the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal, the highest honour given by the WFEO National Member Engineers Australia (EA) to an individual member, at its national award ceremony on 21 November 2024.
The medal is named after Sir Peter Nicol Russell, a ...
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The 2024 World Science Forum took place in Budapest, Hungary, from 20 to 23 November. Every two years, over 900 leading scientists, decision-makers from the world of politics, industry, representatives of the civil society and the media from all over the world gather for the World Science Forum to engage in dialogue about pressing global ...
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The Order of Engineers, Portugal (Ordem dos Engenheiros) hosted the Encuentro Iberoamericano de Mujeres Ingenieras, Arquitectas y Agrimensoras (EIMIAA, Association of Ibero-American Women Engineers Architects and Surveyors) conference at the National Institute of Civil Engineering (LNEC – Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil) in Lisbon, Portugal, for the first ...
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The Order of Engineers, Portugal (Ordem dos Engenheiros) presented its International Distinction Award to former WFEO President Dr Marlene Kanga AO, “for the contribution of excellence given to the development and strengthening of relations between the Portuguese Engineers Association and the global Engineering community, embodied in the WFEO” at the Solemn ...
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The WFEO Working Group on Climate Change, in partnership with the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) presented the webinar entitled “The WFEO Code of Practice: Principles of Climate Change Adaptation and (in future) Resilience for Engineers” on 19 December 2024.
This webinar introduces and explains the nine principles contained in the Continue Reading →
I was invited by the UNESCO Addis Ababa Office to attend the Continental Conference on Transforming STEM in Africa held between 26 and 28 November 2024. In line with the program, the Minister of Science, Technology and innovation from south Africa and I gave Keynote Addresses at the Opening ...
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The Forum was held from 12 to 15 November and was organized by the International Competence Centre for Mining Engineering Education, under the auspices of UNESCO in collaboration with the Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University, Russia.
The theme of the Forum was “The Role of Engineering Education and Science in Achieving ...
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On 12 October 2024, I had the honor of leading a delegation of WFEO leadership to the UN Environment Program (UNEP) global headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, where we engaged in a fruitful discussion with Dr. Rose Mwabaza, Director and Regional Representative for Africa.
Key areas of mutual interest and potential collaboration between WFEO and UNEP were ...
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With members of the World Bank Department of Infrastructure
On the advice of the WFEO-UN Relations Committee (WURC), I visited the United States of America to have meetings with the following Officials/Organizations:
Marie-Line Vaiani, Chair of the WFEO Committee on Energy and Secretary General of the French Energy Council, participated in COP29 as a member of the UN Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition (CEET) delegation.
These days of intense discussions and reflections were structured around the CEET plenary meeting, thematic working sessions, an industrial visit and ...
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