Partnership SANet - WFEO World Federation of Engineering Organizations Dr. Quian Yi Vice President, WFEO

Background of WFEO  An Assembly of National Engineering Organizations.  More than 80 national members and 9 international members.  Represents over 10 million engineers from countries around the world.  Founded in Paris 1968, under the sponsorship of UNESCO.  A non-governmental international organization.

CAST and WFEO-China  CAST---China Association for Science and Technology, a member of WFEO;  Founded in 1958;  A federation of 167 professional societies, including 64 engineering societies;  4.3 million members all around China;  WFEO-China consists Chinese members of WFEO Exe. Board and Standing Committees, representatives from the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Objectives  Encourage the application of technical knowledge to promote sustainable development;  Disseminate information about sustainable technologies to improve the capacity of engineering community;  Organize cooperation among engineering organizations to serve the society and the people around the world.

Standing Committees of WFEO  Committee on Transfer of Technology (ComTech)  Committee on Information and Communication  Committee on Education and Training  Committee on Engineering and Environment

Views of the Engineering Community:  Engineering and application of technologies are a source of global environmental problems but also key to their solution;  Engineering communities are practitioners who are most frequently involved in TT across sectors and MEA  Primary driver of TT always is business or broader economic demand, not MEA  However, responses to demand often offer multiple opportunities to address environmental concerns covered by different agreements

Views of the Engineering Community  New industrial revolution is underway for providing engineering solutions to environmental problems across MEA;  Engineers and WFEO take responsibility of developing, disseminating, and applying cleaner technologies for a sustainable future.

Views of the Engineering Community Example: Sustainable Bio-fuel Technologies are offering win-win opportunities to contribute to the implementation of:  Biodiversity Agreement  Desertification Convention  Climate Change Convention  Montreal Protocol (Mbr)  and is also reducing the risk of POPs residues

WFEO, FIDIC and SANet  SANet is a tool from engineers for engineers  It has been developed in close cooperation with FIDIC and WFEO experts  Design responds to the needs of TT practitioners in China and around the globe  SANet supports clean TT throughout the planning and implementation cycle  Emphasis on win-win solutions, and on tools to establish their viability is crucial to enable sustainable TT and widespread replication

FIDIC, WFEO and SANet  WFEO and FIDC have communication channels that reach more than 15 Million Technology Transfer Practitioners  More than half of them are engineers in the developing world.  These communication structures are being integrated into SANet  This is to enable targeted contributions to the SANet clearinghouses and effective use of SANet services in day to day work

FIDIC, WFEO and SANet  Hundreds of annual meetings, seminars and workshop programs of FIDIC and WFEO member organizations offer excellent platform for SANet outreach & training  Local WFEO Secretariats will serve as SANet focal points and may become cross-cutting national support centers

Agreed initial activities:  Dissemination of information about SANet services to membership;  Population of SANet Clearinghouses by Engineering Communities (win/win cases, policies, experts, resources)  Provision of on-line support to peers through SANet ’ s Matchmaking Function  Planning of joint training activities within existing WFEO and FIDC member programs: Focus identification and validation of win-win solutions

World Engineers Convention (WEC 2004)  Organizer: WFEO  Co-organizer: CAST, CAE, SAST  Venue: Shanghai, China  Themes: Engineers shape the sustainable future.  Subjects for Parallel Sessions: IT, Bio-engineering, Water resources, Energy and transportation, Mega-cities, Environmental Protection, Natural disaster control, Food Security, Poverty eradication, etc.

CAST is an active SANet partner. WFEO-China will do its best to contribute to and gain benefits from SANet.