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Engineering Students! Register Now!!!
Subrata Kumar Das  Daimler Chrysler and UNESCO have launched Mondialogo Engineering Award to promote intercultural dialogue among the engineering students around the world. This year it will be the second round of the contest. In its first round, the Mondialogo Engineering Award brought over 1,700 young engineers from 79 countries together to work on engineering solutions tackling poverty and promoting sustainable development in all regions of the world.
Mondialogo thinks engineers play a crucial role in improving living standards throughout the world, and they have the potential to ensure sustainable development in the 21st century. With this view Mondialogo is looking for students who want to apply their knowledge and expertise in order to improve living conditions in developing countries on a lasting basis.
The Mondialogo Engineering Award invites engineering students in developing and developed countries to form international teams to create project proposals that address the United Nations Millennium Development Goals to 1) eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; 2) achieve universal primary education; 3) promote gender equality and empower women; 4) reduce child mortality; 5) improve maternal health; 6) combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; 7) ensure environmental sustainability; and 8) develop global partnerships for development. Mondialogo encourages proposals that will improve the quality of life in the developing world, particularly poverty eradication and the promotion of sustainable development.
Each team should actively engage in international cooperation and intercultural dialogue over a six-month period, from December 2006 to May 2007, to propose practical, high-quality engineering projects for the benefit of local communities in developing countries.
Area of engineering for your project idea may include water supply and sanitation, food production and processing, housing and shelter, waste management, medicine and health care, energy, transportation and mobility, communication, industry and manufacturing, development of natural resources, emergency and disaster response and reconstruction etc.
Awards:
Ten Mondialogo Engineering Awards of € 20,000 will go to teams with the top project proposals, with an Honourable Mention and € 5,000 earmarked for twenty more teams. Representatives of the 30 finalist project teams (consisting of one member of each student group two members of each International Project Team) will be invited to the Mondialogo Engineering Award Symposium to be held in autumn 2007. At the Symposium, each team will make a presentation of their project proposal, followed by an Award Ceremony where the Mondialogo Engineering Awards and Honourable Mentions will be announced. All participating teams that submit project proposals will receive an official certificate in recognition of their achievements and their commitment to the worldwide exchange of knowledge and intercultural dialogue. Additionally, DaimlerChrysler and UNESCO will publicize the 30 winning projects.
If you are interested please visit www.mondialogo.org and register your name. You will get there all guidelines for the Mondialogo Engineering Award before registering. To submit a proposal for the Mondialogo Engineering Award you shall have to follow the following four steps:
1) Form an international project team (project teams need to consist of two student groups from developing and developed countries)
2) Register your international project team
3) Develop a project proposal addressing the UN Millennium Development Goals of poverty reduction and sustainable development
4) Submit the final project proposal to the Mondialogo team by 31 May 2007
Don't forget that the registrations end on 15 December 2006.
To email Subrata Kumar Das: subratakdas@yahoo.com
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