This side event organized by UNESCO and WFEO – World Federation of Engineering Organizations at the United Nations High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2022, addresses how Member States can build back better in a post COVID environment especially to provide the necessary quality engineering education and training, essential to advance the 2030 agenda for sustainable development.

The side event will present the work being done by WFEO and its partners in international engineering to align its engineering education’s benchmarks with the UN SDGs, to build capacity in engineering education and to provide essential training and development for professional engineers, technologists and technicians.

The event will describe the projects and how advanced technology and Open Science Principles are being applied for an inclusive approach that leaves no one behind.