Event

World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development 2025

UNESCO celebrates World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development 2025 with an event on 4 March at its Headquarters in Paris. The theme of this year’s celebration is "Unleashing the power of engineers to advance the Sustainable Development Goals’’.
WED2025
Event
World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development
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Location
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
Rooms :
Room II
Type :
Cat VIII - Symposia
Arrangement type :
In-Person
Language(s) :
French
English

UNESCO is dedicated to elevating engineering capacities, while celebrating the inspiring achievements of women and young people who are reshaping the field. By showcasing how youth are taking on contemporary engineering challenges and how professional engineers are shattering gender-based stereotypes, UNESCO aims to inspire the next generation of engineers. 

This year’s World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development (WED) focuses on how engineers can contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

About the event

On World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development, UNESCO and the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) will convene an event at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, organised under the umbrella of the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development (IDSSD). 

This global gathering will bring together policymakers, leading scientists, engineers, industry representatives, and international organizations to explore the transformative role of engineering in advancing the SDGs). Through expert panel discussions, the event will highlight engineering’s contribution to shaping policies for sustainable development, strengthening capacities, addressing gender disparities in the field, and advancing digital transformation, energy solutions, and infrastructure development. The event will also showcase the results of the World Engineering Day Hackathon, celebrating youth-driven innovations.

Winners of the hackathon on engineering to be announced at the event

The World Federation of Engineering Organization (WFEO), a longstanding partner of UNESCO, coordinates WED celebrations each year including a hackathon where engineering students work in teams to develop solutions that contribute to sustainable development. UNESCO and WFEO collaborate to advance engineering as a cornerstone for sustainable development. Examples of collaboration include Africa Engineering Week and WFEO’s contributions to the UNESCO report Engineering for Sustainable Development: Delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Provisional agenda

World Engineering Day 2025 - Provisional Agenda
WED25_Agenda

Live webcast

This event is carried out in joint partnership with the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO)

Contact

Georges Bedrossian
Georges
Bedrossian