A WEEK LONG EVENT OF MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

One of the main goals of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is to promote engineering education, capacity building and applications for poverty eradication and sustainable development. Noting the recommendations of the World Engineers’ Conventions in Hanover, 2000 (“Humanity, Nature and Technology”), and Shanghai, 2004 (“Engineers Shape the Sustainable World”), regarding the importance of engineering in social and economic development and the need for capacity building, and noting that the third World Engineers’ Convention will be held on December in Brasilia in 2008 (“Engineering: Innovation with Social Responsibility”). ISEP and other institutions will organize a week long event to publicize MDG to the students. In this presentation we will go to present the program and the internships offered to students.