Today, we are pleased to release our 2021 Annual Report, Strengthening Capacity for a Sustainable Future, where we reflect over the past year and share the work that supports our mission and vision.
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Accurate maps play a critical role in understanding communities, particularly for populations at risk. While some countries are already mapped with incredible detail, it is not the reality for billions of people in vulnerable areas around the globe. Mapping places 'missing' from open and accessible maps allows humanitarian organizations to meet the needs of vulnerable communities by providing valuable information for navigation, decision making and sustainable community development.
The session will focus more particularly on supporting the organization Tumaini which is currently setting up an Open School in Tabora, Tanzania, to ensure that girls excluded from education due to pregnancy get a second chance at an education. The organization needs our help to map local areas to be able to find the way to villages and reach out to the girls and give them a chance for education. No prior knowledge is assumed and all training is given. Join us!
As a self-dependent organization, EWB-SWE relies on funding from corporations, foundations and donors to realize our mission. While taking part in a democratic process and influencing the future of Sveriges Ingenjörer, your vote will directly strengthen our ability to carry out our work towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
“When Engineering for Humanity in Sweden and around the globe, our most important resource is our knowledgeable and engaged volunteers and supporting organizations. We are hence very grateful to Sveriges Ingenjörer for spreading awareness about our work to all members and the potential for significant donation”, says Caroline Bastholm, Secretary-General of EWB-SWE.
EWB-SWE is committed to designing and implementing sustainable engineering projects for a better world. Besides voting this spring, there are a variety of ways to get involved with EWB-SWE, influence our work and ensure that we make a valuable difference in people’s lives.
We invite everyone who shares our vision and commitment to join our community of members. Every contribution helps us take another step towards making our work possible and engineering for long-term sustainable solutions.
To read more about Sveriges Ingenjörer, visit their website here.
Together with openhack, EWB-SWE is delighted to open up for registration to join Engineering for Humanity Weekend 2022 on March 11-13. The 42-hour virtual event is focused on developing sustainable solutions to challenges related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Participation in the event offers a unique chance to collaborate with people of varied backgrounds, design solutions for real-world challenges and compete for the opportunity to realize your solution after the event. The cases are derived from ongoing projects within national Engineers Without Borders organisations in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Germany.
Anyone is welcome to join for a fun and rewarding weekend! At this moment, registration is open for participants, mentors, jury members and partners.
Contribute as a Participant
As a participant, you will join a team of designers, developers, innovators, industry experts, project managers and others ready to find solutions to global challenges. With your team, you will brainstorm, start sketching or building a prototype. All teams will receive guidance from highly skilled professionals and industry experts. In the final hours, you will submit your solution to a jury, who will identify doable, scalable and impactful solutions to support for further implementation.
Help out as a Mentor
To provide the participants with the best resources possible, mentors play a key role. As a mentor, you will be assigned a team to guide, either through scheduled checkpoints or with supportive input throughout the event (minimum time commitment is 2h in total). Additionally, each mentor will be able to respond to questions from any team via the event platform’s chat forum. If you are a subject matter expert, project manager or got experience that can help out, you are welcome to join the event as a mentor and help the participants with their mission.
Be part of the Jury
In order to bring forth the best suitable submissions for further development and implementation, competent jury members are crucial. As a jury member, you will spend 1-3h reviewing submissions at the end of the 42-hour weekend event. As a jury member, you will be part of a jury group consisting of subject matter experts, key partner representatives and project owners.
Partner with us
Companies and organizations are invited to actively take part in the event and support the development of the most promising solutions. As a partner you may contribute with mentors, jury members, prizes, spreading the word and, most importantly, supporting the teams to further develop their ideas after the event. This can be done by mentoring a team in the idea-implementing phase, providing office space, financial support or supervision. Gain recognition for your sustainability goals and get unique recruiting opportunities while helping us engineer for humanity! Get involved as a partner by reaching out to partners.e4h@ewb-swe.org.
As part of the earlier two-year partnership, Vattenfall participated in activities towards EWB-SWE´s local groups, and employees supported the organization´s capacity building by lending their expertise within the group on partnership assessment, competence groups on energy and construction, as well as risk-management and policies evaluation.
“Our work is powered by the support of our partners, and we are extremely pleased with the renewed support from Vattenfall towards our mission“, says Jan Byfors, Chairperson of EWB-SWE.
The current partnership will foster deeper collaboration between EWB-SWE and Vattenfall by involving more employees and participation in workshops and webinars organized by EWB-SWE with a specific focus on diversity and inclusion work.
About Vattenfall:
Vattenfall is a leading European energy provider which for more than 100 years has electrified industries, supplied energy to people's homes and modernised our way of living through innovation and cooperation. The company is committed to attaining a life free from fossil fuels within one generation through innovation and cooperation.
Through humanitarian engineering, we engage, inspire, and unite people to build sustainable communities.
Ingenjörer utan gränser mobiliserar teknisk expertis för att skapa hållbara lösningar som stärker samhällen världen över.
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