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The Fifth IFEES Global Engineering Education Summit will be held from September 30 – October 2, 2011, in Lisbon, Portugal. This year's IFEES Summit is part of the World Engineering Education Flash Week , a weeklong event bringing together conferences for several engineering education organizations.

Government, University, Industry and Civil Society partnerships are key vehicles to develop and sustain economic and social development. This Summit will bring together stakeholders from throughout the world to share their successes and challenges in building and nurturing these partnerships. The role of engineering education associations, government entities and industry will be highlighted as well as the engineering grand challenges of the 21st century. The Summit will provide an opportunity for IFEES members and guests to engage in a dialogue and discussion to catalyze and sustain R&D and innovation partnerships in the next decade.

The Summit plans to conduct various sessions focusing on Government-Industry-Academic-Civil Society Partnerships to Address the Engineering Grand Challenges, focused on Energy, Water and Industry. It also aims at bringing together engineering stakeholders leadership to sign a declaration on agreements and next steps to address the various challenges and opportunities identified during the week.

Chairs: Krishna Vedula, IUCEE and Jose Carlos Quadrado, ISEL