Jury Nominates Finalists of the Mondialogo Engineering Award by Daimler and UNESCO
23 Juillet 2009 - 6:17PM
PR Newswire (US)
- International jury of experts nominates 30 finalists for the
third worldwide contest for engineering students, among them
thirteen teams from the USA - Presentation of the award worth Euro
300,000 at the Mondialogo Symposium in Stuttgart, Germany in
November 2009 - Premiere for the Mondialogo Online Community Award
STUTTGART, Germany and PARIS, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The finalists
for the Mondialogo Engineering Award 2009 were selected in
Stuttgart. An international jury of experts nominated 30 teams and
their project ideas for the finale of the worldwide contest for
engineering students organized by Daimler and UNESCO. Participants
from 28 countries will be represented in the finale, among them
American students from universities in Berkeley, Bethlehem, El
Paso, Greensboro, Madison, Mesa, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Raleigh,
Stanford, West Lafayette and Worcester. The finalist teams will
take part in the Mondialogo Symposium from November 6 - 9, 2009 in
Stuttgart, where they will receive their Awards. These will be
presented in three categories: gold awards worth Euro 15,000,
silver and bronze awards worth Euro 10,000 and Euro 5,000
respectively. The total award prize money is Euro 300,000 in this
third round of the Mondialogo Engineering Award. Engineering
students from 94 countries have submitted a total of 932 project
ideas, which are focused on addressing climate change, sustainable
development, and the eradication of poverty in developing
countries. Key criteria for nomination by the jury were quality and
creativity, addressing the UN Millennium Development Goals,
feasibility, and the intensity of cooperation, dialogue and
exchange of knowledge between the student engineers. About one
third of the finalists are women. The five-person jury chaired by
Prof. Herbert Kohler, Vice-President E-Drive & Future Mobility
and Chief Environmental Office at Daimler AG and Prof. Walter
Erdelen, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences at UNESCO,
consists of -- Peggy Oti-Boateng (Ghana), Director of the
Technology Consultancy Centre at the University of Kumasi, Ghana --
Shirley M. Malcom (USA), Head of Education and Human Resources of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science -- Ali
Uddin Ansari (India), Director of the Centre for Environment
Studies and Socioresponsive Engineering at Muffakham Jah College in
Hyderabad -- Paul Jowitt (United Kingdom), Director of the Scottish
Institute of Sustainable Technology -- Barry J. Grear (Australia),
President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations
(WFEO). At the Symposium in November, the Mondialogo Online
Community Award will be presented for the first time. All visitors
to the Internet Portal mondialogo.org were eligible to vote for
their favorite project. 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 aim is to encourage dialogue between people of
different origins, who work together across continents on a joint
project. This cooperation is intended to promote understanding,
tolerance and friendship between people with different cultural,
religious and linguistic backgrounds. Further information available
at http://www.mondialogo.org/ DATASOURCE: Daimler Communications
CONTACT: Oliver Kapffenstein, Daimler AG, +49(0)711/17-40-62-2,
Fax, + 49(0)711/17-24-847, ; or Antje Mann, Mondialogo,
+49(0)69/74-34-88-308, Fax, +49(0)69/74-34-88-808, ; or Han Tjan,
Daimler , New York/USA, +1-212-909-9063, Fax, +1-212-909-9065, ; or
Sue Williams, UNESCO, +33-(0)1/45-68-17-06, Fax,
+33(0)1/45-68-56-59, Web Site: http://www.mondialogo.org/
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