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Mentoring

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Mentoring is support and guidance by experienced professionals in a particular field to develop the professionalism of those less experienced. Mentoring partnerships are particularly beneficial when strong connections are built between individuals who share professional interests.

 

Those who can benefit are new graduates entering an engineering job, an engineer changing jobs or moving into a new technology, an engineer wanting to progress his/her career, an engineer having to deal with adversity, just to name a few examples.

 

Why become a Mentor? As an experienced professional, you can share your experience and help guide less experienced professionals who are either starting in a new professional field or just seeking advice from a more experienced.

 

Why have a Mentor? As a mentee, IEEE Members at any stage of their professional journey, especially when just getting started, can receive insights and guidance on how to best navigate their career for a specific technical pursuit or leadership positioning.

 

The IEEE Mentoring Program is an online program that facilitates the matching of IEEE members for the purpose of establishing a mentoring partnership. The IEEE Mentoring Program is accessible through IEEE Collabratec, which provides all members of IEEE the ability to establish a mentoring partnership in just a few easy steps. Please find instructions how to access the platform here. The platform allows mentees to search and identify mentors with the relevant professional experience.

 

Benefits of Mentoring

Mentoring can benefit both parties. As well as helping the mentee develop and advance through their career, the mentor can gain extra skills and understanding from the partnership.

  • Mentoring helps both the mentee and the mentor recognize their abilities and limitations, thus highlighting areas for future development.
  • It helps prompt thought about career development and come to a realistic conclusion about their career potential. It can help increase the motivation of both the mentee and the mentor. The mentee gains a new direction or perspective while the mentor feels a sense of achievement when their mentee succeeds.
  • It will develop communication skills. As well as the obvious listening/questioning skills, you will gain experience of talking to a younger or older colleague. This could help you interact better with your own immediate colleagues at work or university.
  • You will be grooming future allies. Within the same company, this could help with internal promotion prospects for both the mentee – gaining a senior supporter, and for the mentor – being seen as someone able to communicate with staff at any level and with an interest in developing future leaders within the company. In addition, the mentor or mentee may find themselves in a position where they are looking for a career change or new position. By developing contacts in other companies, you can find out early if there is a vacancy that would suit you.

Mentee

  • A mentor can provide guidance and support for carrier development
  • A mentor can help to develop specific skills and competency
  • A mentor can provide a welcome point of stability during a time of change
  • A mentor can provide guidance on areas you are unfamiliar with, such as attending interviews or pitching to a client.
  • A mentor will be an independent voice, outside your direct sphere of activity. You can bounce ideas off them without fear of comeback.

Mentor

  • Mentoring provides an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences
  • Your mentee can provide a fascinating link to what is happening in the younger, less experienced part of industry or business.
  • Your mentee can update you on current issues as they happen.
  • By discussing issues with your mentee, you will be renewing and developing your communication skills.
  • Mentors mentoring final year students may find it a useful way to talent spot for later recruitment. This would be especially true for SMEs where there may only be an intake of one graduate per year.

Students

The benefits will depend on what you are looking for.

  • An undergraduate could gain valuable advice on exam techniques from a PhD student.
  • A final year BSc student could discuss job searching and career options with a recent graduate.
  • A final year PhD student could benefit from discussing their options with a post-doc or an experienced business executive.

Recent graduates

  • By choosing a mentor within your own company, you can get a more senior handle on internal politics.
  • A mentor from an external source would generally give you more freedom to discuss cultural issues concerning your department or hierarchy.

Members thinking about or taking a career break

  • Both men and women take breaks at points during their careers.
  • By choosing a mentor who has already taken a career break you will gain useful knowledge on how to tackle this.
  • Members on a career break may find a mentor a useful way to stay in touch with the wider community, especially when thinking about returning to work.

Members experiencing redundancy

  • A mentor can discuss strategies for re-entering employment.
  • If the mentor has been through a similar experience, they will be able to advise you on any activities that will help you maintain your competence during your period away from work.

Members considering becoming or practicing as a consultant

  • Becoming a consultant is not something that is done on a whim, so by choosing a mentor who has already done this, you will have access to valuable advice on the process you need to go through.
  • A mentor with experience of employing consultants will be able to advise you on the average rates and give you advice on bidding for work from the client’s point of view.

Internship Initiative to support Industry

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IEEE Region 8 recognises that IEEE was founded by industry volunteers. It is now time to use the many strengths, facilities and global reach of IEEE to return value to industry. The value proposition of IEEE includes:

IEEE leaderships

  • IEEE is a prominent provider of Lifelong Learning for engineers through its learned webinars and continuing professional development (CPD) programmes
  • IEEE is a leader in establishing (e.g. interworking) standards. Companies benefit from such standards and can participate to develop and influence new standards
  • IEEE provides technical and business forums through its Conferences and Workshops which industry can participate and its engineers benefit
  • IEEE works with national initiatives, e.g. Renewables, for energy and Smart Cities.

 

The IEEE Student Population

  • The future lifeblood of a company comprises the young engineers recruited to perform the specific functions for a company, starting from the ethos of a company and helping develop its technical operations.
  • The huge global population of IEEE students being trained in diverse engineering disciplines provides a great recruiting base for companies. This is especially so because of the range of languages of the student population and the diverse cultural backgrounds which accompany them.
  • Setting up partnerships with IEEE through the local IEEE Sections and Student Branches will be a major long term opportunity to access a valuable engineering base.

 

First Phase Actions to Benefit Companies:

  • IEEE in Region 8 is establishing:
    • Selection panels to identify able students for Internship placements in companies
    • Senior Members and Fellows as Mentors to junior engineers and interns
  • Companies can access recruitment opportunities from the depth and diversity of IEEE engineers
  • IEEE Student branch and Young Professionals meetings can include recruitment booths for companies
  • The national IEEE Sections are the bridge from Company to IEEE

Internships provide mutual benefits:

Provide Work Experience to Young Engineers and Access by Industry to highly able Young Engineers. IEEE Action for Industry leadership will facilitate the placement process both by obtaining job descriptions from companies and vetting the student base to offer to the companies a selection of able young engineers to be matched by to the roles. When dedicated effort is applied to fit a placement, it makes sense to ensure that the experience pays off. So, the IEEE leadership will seek feedback to help improve and correct the internship procedure.

The first step we are undertaking is dialogue with industry companies to partner with IEEE to provide internships. IEEE for its part undertakes to vet applicants from its base of young engineers, and to submit to the companies a selection of capable and personable undergraduates and postgraduates. IEEE will use its base of industry Seniors and Fellows to work with industry to facilitate the placements – where such support is sought by a company. Where Seniors and Fellows have joined the IEEE Region 8 Mentoring service, suitable Mentors will be offered to support the industry placements if such support is sought by a company.

Call for nominations for the 2016 IEEE Region 8 Awards

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We would like to remind you that the following IEEE Region 8 awards have a submission deadline on 15 February 2016:

Please give your attention to starting the process to prepare a nomination for outstanding individuals and organisational units. Experience shows that it takes longer than you might think to put a strong nomination together.

The submission portal for these awards will be open until 15 February 2016. Please note that the nominations sent before or after those dates will not be considered.

Additional information on IEEE Region 8 Awards can be found here.

 

New Nomination Process and Deadline for R8 Young Professionals Awards 2016

 in Region 8 YP Awards / YP News

In an effort to make the awards nomination process in Region 8 more consistent, this year the Region 8 Young Professionals Awards (Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award and Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award) have been migrated to the online FluidReview platform, which can be reached via the following link: http://ieee-r8.fluidreview.com/.
Additionally, all awards in the Region have the same nomination deadline. Therefor, the nomination process for the R8 Young Professionals Awards this year is between 30 January and 15 February, and all nominations submitted before or after these dates will not be taken into consideration. We very strongly encourage you to familiarize yourself with the FluidReview platform before the nomination period starts, since you can create an account and access it at any time, so you are ready to fill in the forms and submit the nomination in time. We also advise you to start preparing the required nomination materials as soon as possible, since it usually takes longer than expected. Do not wait until 30 January to start gathering the supporting letters!
There have been some changes in the eligibility criteria as well, namely in order to be considered for the Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Award you do not have to submit the annual report to the R8 YP team. Instead vTools activity reports will be required, so make sure all your activities are reported properly to vTools before the nominations deadline. The full eligibility criteria and required documents for the nominations are described below. PLEASE NOTE THAT NO NOMINATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED VIA EMAIL! All nominations must be submitted through the FluidReview platform.

Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award

(nominations opened on FluidReview between 30 January and 15 February)

  • Description:

To recognize Young Professionals Affinity Groups (YP AG) within Region 8 for their efforts, successes and achievements in carrying out the mission of IEEE YP and the aims of IEEE in Region 8 within their Section during the calendar year of 2015. Recognition will be given to the YP AG that displayed the most successful maintenance of ongoing efforts, as well as the development and implementation of new programs. These activities shall leave an important imprint on the Section and on Region 8. The winning AG will receive a certificate providing the citation for the award and a cash prize of $400 granted by the R8 YP Subcommittee to the corresponding YP AG.

  • Eligibility criteria:
    • The Young Professionals AG must have at least 20 YP members;
    • All activities from 2015 must be submitted correctly to vTools activities reporting before the nomination deadline (15 February);
    • The Young Professionals AG must not have received another IEEE award in the past 12 months;
    • The $400 prize must be used to support local Young Professionals activities;
    • Affinity Groups which have been awarded the Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group award in the past 5 years are not eligible to participate (Nigeria, Croatia, Egypt, Finland, UAE).
  • Nomination process:

Proposals for nominations of candidate YP AGs for this award will be made by the Section and supported by 1 letter of endorsement by the Section Chair or another member of the Section’s Executive Committee. Alternatively, a YP Chair can also nominate a YP AG, provided that his/her nomination is endorsed by at least 1 other YP member and preferably also by a member of the Executive Committee of the Section. The documents needed to create a nomination are:

  • Nomination letter from Section Chair or another member of the Section’s Executive Committee OR nomination letter from the YP AG chair and another YP AG member and a member of the Section’s Executive Committee; [REQUIRED]
  • Motivation letter from YP AG chair; [REQUIRED]
  • link to YP AG website or Facebook page, or other online platform; [Strongly recommended]
  • Photo report, videos, and other supporting materials to demonstrate the activities and initiatives of the YP AG during 2015 [REQUIRED if no link to website or online platform is provided; it can be submitted as optional extra material even if link to website/online platform is provided]

 

Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award

(nominations opened on FluidReview between 30 January and 15 February)

  • Description:

To recognize a volunteer within Region 8 for his/her dedication towards the mission of IEEE Young Professionals. The recognition will be given to a devoted Young Professional member that presents the most successful maintenance of ongoing efforts, leadership skills, and remarkable development and implementation of new ideas and programs within the last year. These activities shall have an important impact on the Section and on Region 8 Young Professional community, and other IEEE members. The winner will receive an award and diploma providing the citation for the award granted by the Region 8 Young Professionals Subcommittee.

  • Eligibility criteria:
    • The volunteer must not have received another IEEE award in the past 12 months;
    • The candidate’s Affinity Group must not have been awarded with the Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award in the past 12 months;
    • You can not nominate a volunteer for the Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award if the Affinity Group they belong to is nominated for the Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award in the same year;
    • The volunteer must be a Young Professional member of an active Young Professionals Affinity Group in good standing, which has submitted all activity reports to vTools;
    • Members of Region 8 Young Professionals Subcommittee are not eligible to be nominated;
    • Self nominations are not allowed.
  • Nomination process:
    • endorsement letter from Section Chair or other member of the Section’s Executive Committee or the YP AG chair ;
    • letter containing short summary of the nominee’s efforts and accomplishments, their impact and results in improving the IEEE and YP community in their YP AG and Section.

 

If you have any questions or need help with the nomination profess or reaching your Section’s chair or Executive Committee members, please contact us at [email protected]! We are very happy to help in any way we can. We look forward to all your submissions!

 

 

Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award winners 2015

 in Region 8 YP Awards / YP News

We are proud to present this year’s winners for the Region 8 Young Professionals Exceptional Volunteer Award! This year, the Award goes to:

  • Vinko Lesic, for his continuous dedication, enthusiasm, and hard work for IEEE as a whole and Young Professionals especially. His efforts are illustrated through his numerous contributions in various teams and committees at Section level, and all the programs and events organized as Young Professionals Croatia Affinity Group Chair, which include the signature Elevate program, where student members are introduced to Young Professionals and membership after graduation, workshops, lectures and presence in a variety of fairs and conferences to promote Young Professionals, organizing this year’s Central European Students and Young Professionals congress, in addition to bridging the gap between students and Young Professionals, and industry and academia.
  • Samarth Deo, for his continuous efforts and dedication in promoting Young Professionals in his Section, and working to bring together students, Young Professionals and WiE, in his roles in the Section’s executive committee and as past Young Professionals Sweden Affinity Group Chair, as well as organizing the first edition of the Nordic Students and Young Professionals Congress.

An honorable mention is awarded to Eddy Deeb, for his efforts, enthusiasm and hard work to revive the Young Professionals Lebanon Affinity Group, and the events he and his team have organized this year.

Finally, we would like to praise all the nominees we have had for all their dedication and work! We had lots of nominations which have made the selection process very difficult. We consider ourselves very lucky to be part of a Region that has so many outstanding volunteers, from each of its corners. Our warmest congratulations to Vinko, Samarth and Eddy, and we look forward to receiving many more remarkable nominations next year!

Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award 2015

 in Region 8 YP Awards

We are very happy to announce that the Region 8 Young Professionals Subcommittee has selected the UAE Young Professionals Affinity Group as the winner of the Region 8 Outstanding Young Professionals Affinity Group Award for its activities during 2014. Congratulations to the entire UAE YP team! Their efforts and dedication to the IEEE YP causes have made them stand out, and we are glad to acknowledge their successful initiatives.

We would also like to congratulate the other AGs who have submitted a nomination, for their activities and motivation! It makes us very happy to see the ongoing deep commitment of the Regional YP teams. We would like to wish the best of luck to all of them in their future activities and hopefully we will see many more nominations next year!

IEEE Oman Forges a Sustainable Industry-Academe Linkage

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MUSCAT, Oman – Believing that local companies can get involved in education and close the gap between the needs of industries and the skills of graduates, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IIEE) – Oman section gathered together administrators of universities and colleges as well as business executives and industry leaders on 1st December 2015 to discuss how “to scale-up and institutionalize” an industry-academe linkage.

IEEE Oman Forges a Sustainable Industry-Academe Linkage - 1

This activity was co-organized by IEEE Oman with the Oman Society of Engineers (OSE) and the Military Technological College (MTC), who hosted and took the lead role in facilitating the preparations and organizations of the event. In general, the event seek to establish the foundation of an interactive forum between industry and academia through a more concrete approach in exchanging opinions, sharing ideas, discussing real world problems, and exploring ways to utilize the advantages of multidisciplinary engagement to enrich research, innovation and development (RID) in the Sultanate.

The one-day event was packed with series of presentations from the industry sector, poster presentation and interactive session with the representative from the academe. Experts from the Oman Drydock, Oman Railways, Oman Power and Water Procurement Company, Glass Point, and the Research Council clearly manifested the need for a greater and more appropriate industry involvement in the education system. Furthermore, they suggested that clearly defined human resource requirements in industry road maps, more one-to-one partnerships among colleges, universities and companies, more effective on-the-job training (OJT) and internship programs, collaboration on research innovation and the development of students’ general competencies are key to achieving global competitiveness.

IEEE Oman Forges a Sustainable Industry-Academe Linkage - 2

The academe-industry day concluded with high hopes that partnership and the corresponding collaboration between the academe and industry can bring about the kind of education that will drive inclusive and sustainable growth and development in Oman.

By: Engr. Arnold N. Santos
Secretary, IEEE Oman

2016-March – Monaco

 in 2016-March – Monaco

This page contains information about the 106th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting to be held at the Fairmont Monte Carlo in Monaco on 19-20 of March 2016.

Agenda Book
Visa Information
 Monte Carlo, Monaco - Travel Advisory

New National Society Agreement Process [PPT]
New National Society Agreement Process Presentation Material

Saturday Presentations
Sunday Presentations

OpCom Reports

Director (Costas Stasopoulos) Director-Elect (Margaretha Eriksson)
Past-Director  (Martin Bastiaans) Secretary (Christian Schmid)
Treasurer  (Brian Harrington) V/C Member Activities (Dusanka Boskovic)
V/C Student Activities (Mona Ghassemian) V/C Technical Activities  (Igor Kuzle)

 

Subcommittee Reports

Action for Industry  (AfI) History Activities Coordinator (HA) Region Vitality Coordinator (RVC)
Awards & Recognition Subcommittee (A&RSC) Life Member Coordinator (LM) Standards Coordinator   (StC)
Chapter Coordination Subcommittee  (ChCSC) Membership Development Subcommittee  (MDSC) Strategic Planning
Conference Coordination SubCommittee  (CoCSC) Nominations and Appointments Subcommittee Voluntary Contribution Fund Coordinator (VCF)
Educational Activities SubCommittee (EASC) Professional Activities Subcommittee  (PASC) Women in Engineering Coordinator  (WIE)
Electronic Communications Coordinator  (ECC) Region 8 News (R8News) Young Professionals Subcommittee (YP)

 

Section Reports

Algeria Section Iceland Section Republic of Macedonia Section
Austria Section Iran Section Romania Section
Bahrain Section Iraq Section Russia Section
Belarus Section Israel Section Russia (Northwest) Section
Benelux Section Italy Section Russia (Siberia) Section
Bosnia and Herzegovina Section Jordan Section Saudi Arabia (East) Section
Bulgaria Section Kenya Section Saudi Arabia (West) Section
Croatia Section Kuwait Section Serbia And Montenegro Section
Cyprus Section Latvia Section Slovenia Section
Czechoslovakia Section Lebanon Section South Africa Section
Denmark Section Lithuania Section Spain Section
Egypt Section Malta Section Sweden Section
Estonia Section Morocco Section Switzerland Section
Finland Section Nigeria Section Tunisia Section
France Section Norway Section Turkey Section
Germany Section Oman Section UK and Ireland Section
Ghana Section Poland Section Ukraine Section
Greece Section Portugal Section United Arab Emirates Section
Hungary Section Qatar Section Zambia Section

Reimbursement

Meeting Schedule

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106th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting Overview
(subject to change)
  Friday Saturday Sunday
  Room1 (Naïade D) Room 2 (Naïade B/C) Room 3 (Mistrau) Room 4 (Room 3239) Main room Main room
8:00-8:30   All R8 Committee and Subcommittee
members (except Section Chairs)		     R8 Meeting  
8:30-9:00 R8 Meeting
9:00-10:00 Young Professionals
 New Volunteer Orientation Humanitarian Activities
 Membership Development
10:00-11:00
11:00-12:00 Students Activities
 Educational Activities Awards and Recognition
12:00-13:00 Professional Activities
13:00-14:00 Lunch Lunch
14:00-15:00 SYP Congress 2016
Student Activities and
Young Professionals		 Action for Industry Conference Coordination Chapter Coordination Presentations / Parallel Tracks Lunch
15:00-16:00  
16:00-17:00   Strategic Planning
17:00-18:00      
18:00-18:30 Coffee Break
18:30-20:00 France Section Presentation and Technical Lecture
(Naïade B/C/D)		 Networking Dinner
at the Café de Paris
Meeting Point Hotel Lobby
20:00-20:30 Cocktail Reception
20:30-22:30 Awards Dinner (Companions Welcome)

Order of the day

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Friday, 18 March 2016
18:00 0:30:00 Registration
18:30 0:45:00 France Section presentation Amara
19:15 0:45:00 Technical Lecture, Title TBD Olivier Wenden / Philippe Mondiell
20:00 0:30:00 Cocktail Reception
20:30 2:00:00 Dinner and Award Ceremony – Dress code: Formal Delimar
Saturday, 19 March 2016
8:00 0:05:00 100 Procedural Call to order Stasopoulos
8:05 0:15:00 101 Procedural Roll call and Introduction of new officers Schmid
8:20 0:05:00 102 Procedural Welcome by France Section Amara
8:25 0:05:00 103 Procedural Introductory remarks Stasopoulos/Schmid
8:30 0:05:00 104 Action Approval of the Agenda Stasopoulos
8:35 0:05:00 105 Action Approval of the Consent agenda Stasopoulos
8:40 0:35:00 106 Discussion IEEE Region 8 Director’s address Stasopoulos
9:15 0:20:00 107 Discussion IEEE President’s’ address Shoop
9:35 0:20:00 108 Discussion IEEE Executive Director’s address Prendergast
9:55 0:20:00 Procedural Break
10:15 0:30:00 109 Discussion Global Public Policy Day
10:45 0:10:00 110 Discussion Nominations & Appointments Bastiaans
10:55 0:40:00 111 Discussion Student Activities report Ghassemian
11:35 0:05:00 112 Discussion IEEE Region 8 SYP Congress Arvaniti/Ghassemian
11:40 0:20:00 113 Discussion MGA Chair’s address Wong
12:00 0:20:00 114 Discussion MGA Managing Director’s address Jankowski
12:20 0:40:00 115 Discussion Technical Activities report Kuzle
13:00 0:05:00 116 Discussion Presentations – Interactive Session Instructions Stasopoulos/Schmid
13:05 0:01:00 117 Procedural Recess Stasopoulos
13:06 0:04:00 118 Social Group photo
13:10 1:00:00 Social Lunch
14:10 0:05:00 200 Procedural Call to order Stasopoulos
14:15 2:30:00 201 Discussion Presentations / Parallel Tracks All
16:45 0:05:00 202 Procedural Recess Stasopoulos
18:30 1:00:00 Social Short walk (5 min) to the restaurant, Meeting point: Hotel lobby
18:50 0:45:00 Social Cocktail Reception at the Café de Paris
19:35 2:30:00 Social Dinner at the Café de Paris
Sunday, 20 March 2016
8:30 0:05:00 300 Procedural Call to order and roll call Stasopoulos/Schmid
8:35 0:45:00 301 Discussion President-Elect candidates’ debate Costa/Reder/Jefferies
9:20 0:05:00 302 Discussion Secretary’s report Schmid
9:25 0:20:00 303 Discussion Treasurer’s report Harrington
9:45 0:40:00 304 Discussion Member Activities report Boskovic
10:25 0:15:00 305 Discussion Awards & Recognitions Delimar
10:40 0:30:00 Procedural Break
11:10 0:05:00 306 Discussion Tab Piuri
11:15 0:15:00 307 Discussion Section development and vitality Szabo
11:30 1:00:00 308 Discussion IEEE in 2030 Shoop/Michel/Bartleson
12:30 0:20:00 309 Discussion Legal Issues Lach
12:50 0:20:00 310 Discussion Future Conferences (Energycon, Melecon, GCC) Kuzle
13:10 0:15:00 311 Info Sections Congress 2017 Delimar
13:25 0:05:00 312 Info Next Region 8 Committee Meeting Schmid/Madureira
13:30 0:20:00 313 Action Motions Stasopoulos
13:50 0:10:00 314 Info New business All
14:00 0:05:00 315 Action Adjournment Stasopoulos
14:05 1:00:00 316 Social Lunch
Parallel Tracks (Saturday, 19 March 2016, 14:15-16:45)
Time Duration Track 1 Track 2
Topic Presenter Topic Presenter
14:15 0:40:00 IEEE Africa Kaabunga IEEE Europe Delimar, Day, Mancarella, Mynster
14:55 0:05:00 Break
15:00 0:40:00 Humanitarian Activities / SIGHT Kulkarni, Jacob IEEE Region 10, Best Practices and Ways to Cooperate Kappagantu
15:40 0:05:00 Break
15:45 0:40:00 New National Society Agreement Process Kaplan IEEE Student and Young Professional Congress Arvaniti, Dinka, Webert, Stieglmaier