System transformation in Poland and regaining sovereignty have created new conditions and opened new cooperation opportunities for Polish engineering communities in Poland and abroad. Their calls for the world-scale integration of engineering communities as well as dissemination, promotion and application of Polish engineering achievements in various fields of science and technology and their implementation in economy were an incentive to organize the World Congress of Polish Engineers. That idea was the grounds for signing an agreement on Congress organization between Professor WÅ‚odzimierz Kurnik, Rector of Warsaw University of Technology and Mr Andrzej Drzewiecki, representing the Council of Polish Engineers in North America, and then between Professor WÅ‚odzimierz Kurnik, Rector of Warsaw University of Technology and Ms Ewa MaÅ„kiewicz-Cudny, President of the Federation of Engineering Associations - NOT.

   The World Congress of Polish Engineers is the continuation of engineering seminars “Poles Together’, organized by NOT since 1996 and many other initiatives by organizations of the Polish community abroad from Europe and North America, as well as the Association 'Polish Community' (Wspólnota Polska). The Congress will be an excellent forum for the presentation of most important scientific and economic issues being of interest to Congress participants and an opportunity to establish contacts and cooperation, especially in the field of innovation and high-tech.

 

   The Congress aims to define the possibilities of economic acceleration in Poland through:

 

• establishing the cooperation strategy for Polish engineering communities in Poland and abroad,


• transfer and implementation of modern technologies developed directly or indirectly by Polish engineers working in various parts of the world,


• creating opportunities to exchange experiences in the field of educating and retraining engineers in line with practice and requirements of global economy, including education in English, especially at graduate and post-graduate level,


• wide economic cooperation initiated or executed by Polish engineering communities abroad,


• popularizing Polish technological solutions, Polish products and services all over the world,


• establishing close ties among Polish and foreign universities as well as other academic, research and teaching institutions in the field of experiences exchange, joint scientific and research projects, exchange of lectureres, research students, etc.; creating international research teams,


• establishing a strategy towards strengthening or creating a Polish scientific and technological lobby abroad as well as increasing the number of Polish professors and PhD students on world top universities,


• exploiting the knowledge, experience and contacts of Polish engineers abroad, both professionally active and nearing retirement, for the needs of Polish universities, research institutions and industry,

• making personal contacts.