Webinar on how to find your ideal workplace during the Covid-19 crisis

In these challenging times, it can be hard to find a job and navigate through the Swedish job market.

EWB-SWE is hosting a webinar 27th of May at 18:00-19:00 for newly arrived engineers. You will be introduced to a new platform that helps you find an engineering workplace that shares your work values and is meaningful for you. You will also get the unique chance to participate in a Q&A with Carwan Rasaol, CEO of Airjobb.

We can't wait to see you there! Register to attend here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/finding-your-ideal-workplace-online-seminar-tickets-105536035122?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

EWB-SWE's initiative Engineer to Engineer holds this event.

Read more about Engineer to Engineer here

Join EWB-SWE's digitalisation focus group

Engineers Without Borders Sweden (EWB) has worked with digitalisation since 2016, and a total of three international projects have been carried out. As of May 2020, there are two active projects, one for Tanzania and one for Kenya.

All current and earlier digitalisation projects have been working on the same foundation of hardware and software. A server running PiServer, and Raspberry Pi clients running Raspbian. Together they make a computer lab where both teachers and students can study the technology and become computer literate. Student can also use the labs for studying the school curriculum, as the project supplies the necessary software.

To benefit from scaling effects, EWB has decided to set up a framework for CFS-projects. Partly in terms of hardware and software, but also in terms of long-term maintenance, teacher training material, and last but not least: computer literacy tests.

The task of building this framework falls upon the digitalisation focus group. We are looking for people who want to join the focus group to help develop and build this framework. We are looking to fill three general role groups; software, hardware, and education/sustainability, all roles can expect to put in between 2-4 hours a week.

 • Software: You are interested in software, coding, and finding solutions to unusual problems. You are comfortable with git, Linux, and getting familiar with source code. All the software we use right now is open source, though this is subject to change if deemed necessary. We want you to look at how to make our software solution better, more stable, and easier to use.

 • Hardware: You are interested in electronics, networking, and power solutions. You are familiar with Linux, and perhaps you have been working with Raspberry Pi's before. We want you to evaluate the current hardware solution and compare it to other possible solutions. The evaluation should balance power efficiency, cost, and durability.

 • Education and sustainability: You are interested in teaching, technology, and the combination of the two. Maybe you have worked as a teacher, or perhaps you have worked as an extra teacher on the side (homework help, mentoring, lab extra on university course). We want you to keep developing our computer literacy tests and the methods we can use to evaluate the effect of our projects. We also want you to look at the teacher training material, as well as the teaching material that the teachers can use when teaching their subjects to the students.

If this sounds interesting, please get in contact with Christian Naccache by email: digitalisation@ewb-swe.org

Engineers Without Borders Annual Report 2019.

We are excited to share Engineers Without Borders Annual Report 2019.

In 2019 we focused mainly on improving our quality and long-term effect in both our international development cooperation and our national projects.

We wish to thank all our members and collaboration partners for your contributions towards the fulfilment of our mission to through humanitarian engineering engage, inspire and unite people to build a sustainable future

Support EWB-SWE's Covid-19 Response in International Projects

As an effect of the current pandemic situation, we extend and rephrase some of our plans to help our partner organisations to limit the spreading and the impacts of Covid-19.

Right now, we are having top-focus on two initiatives:
We are extending our contribution just slightly in an extensive project aiming to improve the water and sanitation situation in primary schools in north-western Tanzania to reduce the spreading of Covid-19 when the schools open again after the current closing. By providing more water buckets and soap to the schools, we facilitate more frequent and adequate hand-washing, which is essential to reduce the spreading of the disease. (FYI: one bucket is about 85 SEK, a box of soap 130 SEK, and the full package for a school would be around 1000 SEK. We need 15 000 SEK in total.)

Please support our Covid-19 Response in International Projects 

We are re-planning the further extension of a water pipeline stretching between three villages in Tanzania constructed in 2017. The Covid-19 related change includes water supply to a small health station now being transformed into a hospital for Covid-19 patients. We collaborate with the local government to fund the extension, and with our local partner organisation and the local government to complete it. (FYI: The total cost is estimated to 160 000 SEK, and EWB-SWE will cover 70 000 SEK of that.)

Please support the further extension of this project (mark your donation as project 2018.026)

Join us in the pursuit of overcoming the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic

Backed by the Swedish Government, EWB-SWE's initiative openhack has joined forces with Hack for Sweden to ship the online hackathon Hack the Crisis Sweden 3-6 of April. The mission is to design, test and execute ideas for the future of Sweden and the world. We want to gather creative ideas and test solutions in an attempt to make further progress in the ongoing resistance. 

Public sector, private sector, academia, non-profit organizations and citizens are all welcome to contribute.

Sign up at www.hackthecrisis.se to contribute to digital solutions which can help all who are now working hard to alleviate, or are affected by, the crisis. Solutions can range from critical resources to support the people isolated.