Relations with UNESCO: Staff Changes : Framework Agreement with ICET

Staff Changes in UNESCO

The new Director General of UNESCO is Mt. Koichiro MATSUURA. (Japan) who received the presidents of WFEO and UATI at he beginning of 2000 in a very friendly meeting. He has suppored the Ist World Engineers Convention which was held in June 2000 in Hanover, sending a video message for the opening ceremony.

Recent nominations of UNESCO regarding the staff in direct relationship with WFEO are the following:

-          Mr M.N. Barbosa,from Brazil,as Deputy Director General

-          Mr W.R. Erdelen, from Germany,as Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences.

-          Ms E. Mitrafanova, from Russia, as Assistant Director General for Administration.

-          Mr. B. Rouhban, from Lebanon, Section Chief of Engineering.

-          The Situation of WFEO has improved inside UNESCO and we have established contacts with Mr.Erdelen and Mr.Rouhban in order to get more support from UNESCO. In any case we count with the valuable  support of Mr.A. Marjoram inside UNESCO and for the 2^nd WEC.

 Framework Agreement with ICET

 UNESCO has signed with ICET a Framework Agreement on March 19^th, 1999 for the end of the current sexennial period.  This agreement aimed at the initiation of a process of partnership between UNESCO and ICET in a way specific to umbrella NGOs, having a formal partnership association with UNESCO.The three projects within the scope of the Framework agreement are :

      -     The International Commission for Higher Engineering Education

-          The World Technology Report

-          The Virtual Library for Sustainable Development

The concrete results of this co-operation are detailed further down in the report of the Executive Director.

According to UNESCO, the evaluation of cooperation with ICET members - WFEO  and UATI - has been successful in terms of immediate goals and objectives, and in the wider promotion of engineering, with the recommendation that the agreement be renewed.