Date: 8 and 15 September
Time: 10.30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Venue: Civil Engineering Museum, ground floor, Civil Engineering Building, Alameda Campus
«As part of the Humanitarian Engineering Curricular Unit, two sessions will take place on 8 and 15 September to showcase the context and the stakeholders involved in humanitarian engineering.
September 8th – Session I
Programme:
10.30 a.m. Welcome
Francisco Lemos – Responsible for the curricular unit
10.40 a.m. Meet the NGOs (part I)
João Antunes Director-general – Doctors Without Borders Portugal
Assunção Chaves – Biomedical Engineer at Doctors Without Borders
11.10 a.m. Why this curricular unit matters
Rogério Colaço – President of Técnico, ULisboa
11h20 Meet the NGOs (part II)
Sérgio Fernandez – Project Technician at Engineers without Borders (online)
11.35 a.m. The experience of companies
Teresa Melo – Waterways
11.50 a.m. Q&A
September 15th – Session II
Programme:
10.30 a.m. Managing Portugal’s international development cooperation
Sérgio Guimarães – Division of Humanitarian Action, Civil Society, and Citizenship of Instituto Camões
11 a.m. Meet the NGOs (part III)
Joana Macedo Rocha – Associate of Human Before Borders
11.30 a.m. Q&A
The sessions are open to the entire Técnico community.»
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