Call for papers for the 8th Edition of FIDIC’s Future Leaders Booklet
The Future Leaders Advisory Council (FLAC) of FIDIC invites submissions of papers for the 2024 edition of the annual FIDIC Future Leaders Booklet. The Booklet will be released at the Global Infrastructure Conference 2024, which this year has as its central theme “Transforming lives with infrastructure: Investing in and building a better world for all”.
Infrastructure investment plays a pivotal role in driving economic growth, fostering development, and enhancing life quality of the communities we live in, all around the world. By laying the groundwork for sustained economic prosperity, robust infrastructure is crucial for ensuring social inclusion and equitable access to essential services like clean water, electricity, and healthcare facilities to underserved communities.
In the face of grand challenges that we are currently living, such as rapid urbanization, climate change and disruption of new technologies to mention a few, we aim to transform lives by investing and building a better world for all. This booklet aims to highlight the importance of good, sustainable, ethical, and efficient infrastructure investment in improving and enhancing both the global environment that we all depend on and the living standards and economic prospects of citizens around the world.
We encourage submissions that discuss the role that Future Leaders play in shaping the future of the infrastructure industry, and how the current trends are shaping the future world we are living in. Therefore, we invite Future Leaders from around the world to share their thoughts, experiences, and ideas in this unique and exciting publication.
Booklet Theme: Investing now for a better future
Papers are invited according to the following sub-themes:
- Sustainability and Resilience (Net Zero, Decarbonization, Nature Based Solutions, building resilient infrastructure)
- Social Sustainability (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, fair wages, mentoring, etc.)
- Investing to prevent unethical behaviours in projects i.e. The “darker side of projects” (Modern Slavery, Corruption, Unsustainable exploitation of resources, etc.)
- Digital revolution (Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Robotics, etc.)
- Other - please specify
Important Dates:
17 April 2024 - Call for papers opens
14 June 2024 - Submission of papers closes
12 July 2024 - Shortlisting of papers for publication and presentation
8 September 2024 - Release of the Special Edition of the FIDIC Future Leaders Booklet and Symposium in Geneva
Eligibility Criteria:
An authors must be a Future Leader (under 40 years of age at the date of publication of the booklet) and satisfy at least one of the membership criteria below:
(1) Be a member of FIDIC’s Future Leaders Council
(2) Be a member of a FIDIC Regional Future Leaders Group
(3) Be a member of a FIDIC Member Association Future Leaders Group
(4) Be an employee of a member firm affiliated to a FIDIC Member Association (To confirm your Member Association, please visit FIDIC | Member associations | International Federation of Consulting Engineers)
Submission Guidelines
(1) All submissions must be made in English via the FIDIC web site: https://www.fidic.org/node/32998 (see the form below) on or before 14 June 2024 (midnight GMT) using the word template.
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(2) Length of the paper to not exceed 2 x A4 pages for content
(3) All authors are to supply a short biography (not exceeding 150 words) and a high-resolution picture of the author(s) of at least 1MB in resolution.
The FIDIC FLC reserve the right to shortlist articles for publishing against the above criteria and quality guidelines. Papers that do not get selected for the booklet may be published on other FIDIC platforms. Submitting authors are to be available to present their papers in person at the Future Leaders Symposium on Sunday 8 September 2024.
With best wishes,
Dr Nelson Ogunshakin FICE, OBE
Chief Executive, FIDIC
