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14 Dec

SHINKUN-LA TUNNEL - Working in the Himalayas (Part 1)

Past ITACET scholarship recipient Sandeep Nirmal and his colleague Ahmed Shaz recounts for us their adventures working in the Himalayas on a tunnel project. 

 

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03 Jun

Update on the Lunchtime Lecture Series

The Lunchtime Lecture Series has now been underway since February and has so far been very successful, with an average of 175 participants joining us online for each event!

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21 Dec

A new project for the Foundation - the online lunchtime lecture series!

From February 2021 the ITACET Foundation will be starting a new project – a monthly online lunchtime lecture series co-organised with the ITA-CET Committee and ITA!

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08 Sep

A letter to the Foundation

Juan Sebastian Bolívar Vasco received an ITACET Foundation scholarship for the year 2019-2020, enabling him to undertake his studies at Politecnico di Milano in Italy. Having completed his studies he wrote us the following letter to let us know how he was getting on:

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07 Sep

Once upon a time at a WTC...

ITACET Foundation scholarship student Mohamed Beghoul recounts the moment he decided to continue his tunnelling studies and his experience following the specialized Master's programme in Turin:

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09 Jul

A bright future for the Tunnelling Association of Kenya

Last year, Maud Macary went to Kenya to lecture at an ITACET training session. Here she gives us her feedback from the session:

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12 Mar

MoU signed by ITA and ITACET Foundation

On 17th February  and during the ITACET Foundation’s council meeting, HE Eng. Abdullah Al-Mogbel, the President of the ITACET Foundation, signed an MoU with the ITA President and Vice-President, Jenny Yan and Lars Babendererde respectively.

This MoU has been developed together with the ITA President and other officials in ITA in order to strengthen the relationship between the two organizations in the field of tunnelling and underground space.

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24 Feb

Tunnel Safety Management training in Dubai

The ITACET Foundation recently cooperated with the International Road Federation (IRF) to organise a training session in Dubai on Tunnel Safety Management for the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) of Dubai. The speakers were Catherine Larive from the Centre for Tunnel Studies in France and Philippe Fenain, a senior consultant on road infrastructure management, currently in Barcelona.

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