Former SEFI President Borri received the Humboldt Alumni Award

On June 21st, Prof. Borri received the Humboldt Alumni Award. With this Prize, he said that he wants to create a transdisciplinary network. Starting in Italy, the object is to integrate many of the countries around the Mediterranean in a transdisciplinary network involving Humboldtians, junior researchers and other academics. They will focus on themes relating to risk management for the prevention of natural hazards. Their results will benefit urban planning concepts, for example, as well as structural and civil engineering. See http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/newsletter-2-2010-1a-en.html

2010 European Deans Convention

  Please mark your calendar! On November 25-26, SEFI and CDEFI, in cooperation with CESAER, will hold the 3rd European Deans Convention in Paris. Invited keynote speakers: EU Commissioner for Education and Culture, Mrs. Vassiliou, Mr. Gallois, Chairman of EADS and Prof. Steinbach, President TU Berlin. Programme and invitations will be circulated soon!

News@sefi, June/July, is available now!

The June/July issue of your news@sefi is available on www.sefi.be, for members only. This issue contents information about the SEFI activities for the coming months, news from the European Union, from the United Nations, from the rest of the world, as well as a list of interesting publications and events not to be missed. You are not member yet? Please contact info@sefi.be

SEFI Ethics Group

An international workshop on the issue of Preparing for Social Responsibility. Teaching ethics, peace and sustainability to students in science and engineering will be held in Delft, The Netherlands from October 13-15 2010. This workshop is a co-activity of the SEFI ethics working group with other parties.

To read the programm of the workshop, please click here. For further information, please visit the workshop website:
http://ethicsandtechnology.eu/socialresponsibility/

Diversity and Gender in EE

We are pleased to announced the HELENA International Conference to be organised at Les Cordeliers, Conference Centre of the Paris University, Paris (France) –June 23-24 2011 on Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers (GIEE 2011). Scolars and specialists are invited to send an abstract online on the following site before October 15th 2010: www.fp7-helena.org/conference2011

Engineering Education Research

NEER Kick off seminar
The kick-off seminar for NNEER (Nordic Network for Engineering Education Research) was organised  by Linköping University on May 20-21 near the city of Nyköping. The aim of NNEER is to develop EER in the Nordic and Baltic countries and to increase co-operation among researchers and doctoral students in these countries. It is supported by NordForsk through a three-year grant. For more information contact Jonte Bernhard: jonte.bernhard@liu.se (Chairman ofthe SEFI WG on EER)

Climate changes

In the context of the UN Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen, SEFI  expressed its concern relating to the Climate Change and its appreciation of the efforts taken by the United Nations.

In this context, our Administrative Council decided to establish a Task Force on Sustainability in Engineering Education. Read more…

Annual Conference 2010

Visit the conference website.
Download the Call for Papers document.