YPF Newsletter Issue 26

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Chairperson's Message

Jomanah

AlBtoush

Jordan

GREETINGS YOUNG PROFESSIONALS (YPs) AROUND THE WORLD

It’s always our great pleasure to have the space to contact you through FIDIC Young Professionals Forum (YPF) newsletter.

In this 26^th issue we are sharing with you a lot of diverse articles that show the YPs vision, point of views and challenges. You can read in this issue a summary about FIDIC conference activities and program, an interview with YPFSC vice chair Cosmin Tobolcea, a summary report about FIDIC-GAMA conference, project management office requirements and applications, leadership types and challenges, UN sustainable development goals & its relation with YPs and how to manage the stress at work.

It is my honor to report that GAMA YPFSC had a great job on holding a YPs Congress as part of FIDIC-GAMA Conference in Cape Town in May 2017, in addition to other activities that acknowledge the YPs role and achievements. Well done friends!

YPFSC is working on different online surveys related to different critical topics, therefore we are very interested to hear your point of view… please help us through filling and sharing the below links:

• Feedback survey about FIDIC Young Professionals Management Training Programme (YPMTP) course that targets former and current participants: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FIDIC_YPMTP

• Survey to understand the role of Engineering in Humanitarian Works:

         https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Humanitarian_Eng

• Survey about Building Information Modeling (BIM) that targets the professionals who are familiar or not with BIM: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BIM_USE

Time is fast approaching and YPFSC members are working hardly to arrange a unique and valuable YPs program as part of FIDIC annual infrastructure conference in Jakarta in October 2017. We have a lot of events for this year as below:

• YP Open forum as part of FIDIC Best Business Practice Forum: YPs will have the space to discuss different topics including their progress, ideas, concerns, and challenges in relation with resilient infrastructure.

• 1^st FIDIC Young Professional Symposium: This is the highlight of this year, for the first time the YPFSC is arranging the YPs Symposium of two sessions with great and tangible support of FIDIC Executive Committee, In the first session different papers will be presented by YPF members that cover YPs diverse ideas, expectations, understanding of resilient infrastructure and second session will be for YPMTP participants to present their report and outcomes.

• Meet & Greet, which is a networking event for YPs from all over the world.

• Technical Tour.

• Announcing 2^nd YPs Award that acknowledge the YPs efforts and achievement in consulting engineering sector, and

• Executive Committee (EC) meeting and breakfast with YPs & YPFSC.

For more information about the conference please check: http://fidic2017.org/en. We are looking forward to meet you all there….to attend our activities …to build communication’s channels and networks …and to spread YPs voice worldwide.

Enjoy the Newsletter!

Let the Young lead

Jomanah AlBtoush, FIDIC YPFSC Chair