Registration Deadline for Mondialogo Engineering Award Ends December 31, 2008
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Contest by Daimler and UNESCO calls engineering students
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Search for technical ideas to improve living conditions in developing countries and fight poverty and climate change
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EUR 300,000 in total prize money for the best teams
Stuttgart, Germany / Paris, France, October 21, 2008
The closing date for the largest worldwide contest for engineers, the Mondialogo Engineering Award is being extended. Engineering students now have until December 31, 2008 to register online at www.mondialogo.org. With prize money amounting to EUR 300,000, Daimler and UNESCO are promoting sustainable ideas to solving problems in developing countries, particularly in the fight against poverty and climate change.
The Mondialogo Engineering Award calls on students of the engineering sciences from industrialized and developing countries to work together in international teams on developing project ideas in the fields of environmental protection, energy and water supply, the use of natural resources and waste management. Also required are innovative concepts in medical care, nutrition, housing, hygiene, disaster prevention, mobility and communication.
All enrolled students are entitled to register for the contest. They have the task of forming project teams made up of students from two educational institutions, with one group coming from an industrialized country and the other from a developing country. The Mondialogo Internet Portal www.mondialogo.org serves as a contact platform and then later as a virtual office as well. Teams have until April 30, 2009 to work out and submit their project ideas. An international Jury will then appraise the projects and decide on who is to receive the awards, which will be presented as part of a festive ceremony in Istanbul/Turkey in 2009. Key factors in the assessment of project ideas are sustainability, scientific excellence and feasibility of the proposals as well as the intensity of intercultural cooperation within the project groups.
Alongside the Mondialogo Engineering Award, the initiative launched by Daimler and UNESCO in 2003 also consists of the Mondialogo School Contest and the Internet Portal in five languages. The main aim is to encourage dialogue between people of different cultural backgrounds, who work together across continents on joint projects, thereby promoting knowledge transfer and intercultural exchange.
