The Mondialogo Engineering Award (MEA) is a partnership launched by Daimler and UNESCO in 2003.
The Award seeks to encourage student engineers to tackle some of the major challenges of the 21st century. The eradication of poverty, promotion of sustainable development and responding to climate change are key concerns of the Mondialogo Engineering Award. Participating students are asked to respond to these most pressing challenges of today’s world, and to develop engineering solutions and technologies that will help to reduce poverty and address basic needs, enhance sustainable development in such areas as water supply and sanitation, mitigate the negative impacts of climate change and adapt to changing climatic conditions.
Over the past four years, there have been two rounds of the Mondialogo Engineering Award – in 2004-5 and 2006-7. The Mondialogo Engineering Award has inspired several thousand engineering students around the world to cooperate in international partner teams to develop project design proposals, sharing their knowledge and expertise and thereby promoting intercultural dialogue between countries around the world.
Related links:
:: Mondialogo website
:: A success story: Cooperation between UNESCO and DaimlerChrysler
:: A World of Science - Vol. 6, No2 (April-June 2008) p.17
Contact:
:: Tony Marjoram, UNESCO Programme Specialist on Engineering