Source: BAM
Africa is emerging rapidly, and construction activities are at the onset of a rapid incline. Africa has potential to develop and implement best practice solutions, avoid earlier mistakes, and skip technologies of a past era – the starting position is better than for any other region in the world. Thus, construction innovation from Africa can spark innovation all over the world. However, for innovation driven and sustainable construction technologies to emerge, the next generation of civil engineers and architects need awareness of the challenges, alertness about innovative and sustainable technologies, and deeper understanding of their fundamental backgrounds.
Therefore, the ISEE conference aims at developing strategies for the education of more science driven, conscious engineers. ISEE stands for Innovation, Science, Engineering and Education. The conference aims at connecting multiple experts and change drivers linked to construction technology, society, and education. Topics of construction and sustainable materials will be linked to educational challenges and discussed jointly.
Registration is free and open to everyone - number of participants is limited
There is no restriction. Every person, who thinks can contribute towards the objectives of the conference, regardless of age, title, gender, or origin is invited to attend. Attendance is free but the number of participants is limited. Please register here with a short statement about your interest in the conference.
Since nearly 10 years BAM is involved in Afrika
Since nearly 10 years BAM cooperates with African scientists in the field of concrete research as well as organizing workshops on sustainable construction engineering. Cooperation began with the EU-funded SPIN programme, which BAM coordinated between 2009 and 2013. The initial question of that project was: what could innovative concrete and new construction methods look like in Africa? To explore this, we visited Africa's concrete experts and obtained a vivid idea on the ground. Jointly, we arranged conferences in Africa and in Berlin, where we discussed our research work and formed networks.
Various other projects developed out of this work like the pan-African cement proficiency testing scheme PACE-PTS – a regularly operating round robin with participants from more than 40 laboratories from more than 20 countries worldwide to improve the quality infrastructure of African laboratories. Also ACCTA the International Conference on Advances in Cement and Concrete Technologies in Africa has to be mentioned. After 2013 in South Africa and 2016 in Tanzania the conference will be held again in South Afrika in 2010.
Together with the VolkswagenStiftung the KEYS project was brought to life, in which BAM specifically engaged in a dialogue with African junior researchers. Over three years several workshops were organised. This is where ISEE comes in: The specific objective is to deliver credible solution strategies for enhanced education for a new generation of decision makers with higher awareness of global and environmental challenges as well as innovation potentials.