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Peter Horne Zartsdahl has been appointed to lead the Engineers Without Borders - Denmark (EWB-DK). "In our search for a candidate who could bring inclusive leadership, development experience, and familiarity with our partner countries we found Peter, who has exceeded our...

After 12 years in Engineers Without Borders, Secretary General Dorte Lindegaard Madsen has decided to take up a new position outside EWB-DK. EWB-DK greatly appreciates the great efforts Dorte has made in the organisation over the past twelve eventful years. During that...

The consulting engineering company, Emendo, has chosen to take out a corporate membership with Engineers Without Borders (EWB-DK). With the corporate membership, the Danish company based in Nordhavn in Copenhagen and clients in Denmark, Europe and the USA wants to...

The new pool for global engagement, education and collaboration, GLOBUS, has chosen to support EWB-DK's engagement efforts among Danish students and strengthen the work with circular projects. With a generous grant of around DKK 900,000, EWB-DK will increase the students'...

Engineers Without Borders has worked for many years to improve sanitation conditions in the slums of Sierra Leone. On the occasion of World Toilet Day, we focus on how we can overcome the sanitation problems. In connection with the international congress World Water...

Using drones, researchers from SDU are in Sierra Leone these days to measure land for registers. The World Bank has donated USD 41 million to the work, in a pilot project with Engineers Without Borders. The goal is to secure the property rights of the local population in...

Polytech has entered into a new premium company membership with Engineers Without Borders and has chosen to bring Danish know-how to school children in poor rural areas of Uganda and. The region is one of the places in the world with the most frequent lightning strikes and with Polytech's knowledge and technical know-how on lightning discharge, is an entire school compound with teacher housing and classrooms now secured against lightning.

Slowly we can begin to see eachother again - and we MISS you. It has been a long while since we have seen all of you volunteers at the office. We are so looking forward to see you again that we will have coffee and cake ready for the first five project groups that come to...

“12 years left to save the planet”, was said and written many times throughout 2019. Indeed, we only have ten years to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a decade to make a difference for this planet and the next generations. We need to find ways to fix...

- Join the Techvelopment Spring Sustainable Development Goal 6 is crystal clear: water for all by 2030. By definition, this means leaving no one behind. How can high-tech be used to improve the lives of the billions of people who are still living without safe water?...

- with Water DTU and Engineers Without Borders Denmark Read the summary of the event Today, 4.5 billion people live without safely managed sanitation and 892 million people still practice open defecation. The impact of exposure to human faeces on this scale has a...

Too much water, too little water, too poor water quality – this is the situation in many developing countries. How can we reduce floods, droughts and water pollution? Engineers Without Borders Denmark (EWB-DK) in cooperation with Ramboll celebrates the UN World Water Day...

To make it possible for poor household farmers to adapt to climate changes, the private sector should be involved in creating and financing solutions. Through a project in West Africa, Oxfam IBIS has, for some years now, attempted to pave the way for partnerships between...

Engineers Without Borders Denmark together with a number of partner organizations (see list below) have secured a new project financed by EU Aid Volunteers (a part of the Europa Commission). The purpose of the new project is to build internal capacity and a joint...

OG det er vi meget stolte over Hvordan forener man innoverende højteknologisk viden med at hjælpe verdens fattige? Opskriften på dette har Ingeniører uden Grænser fundet igennem sine projektgrupper bestående af frivillige hvor gejst, faglig udfordring og bæredygtighed er i...