International Thesis Award: South of the World

 ISF-Fi (Ingegneria Senza Frontiere – Firenze ONLUS or Engineering without Borders – Florence) is organizing the International Thesis Award “Premio Tattarillo” for Bachelor, MS and PhD theses with the objective to stimulating the interest of students and international academia community in sustainability topics in the “South of the World.”

Tattarillo Award aims to deepen and circulate the concept of “Appropriate Technology” as a means for:

• knowledge transfer and awareness spreading among  populations, to promote development
• models appropriate to their specific socio-economic and environmental reality;
• satisfying the needs of a community arising from  its own socio-economic and environmental  reality;
• supporting the debate and the encounter among different cultures also through discussion  regarding technological choices.

The Award is addressed to any student graduated in any University with a Bachelor Degree or a

Master Degree or a PhD. The thesis may belong to any faculty; they are not limited to Engineering faculties. The defence of the submitted thesis must have been held between the closing date of the present Award and no earlier than 1st January 2009.

Participant theses have to deal with  studies and/or applications of appropriate technologies in a context classifiable as South of the World, in the sense previously specified.

Tattarillo Award 2012 will award 3 prizes of 1000 € each. The judging panel and the supporters of the Award can also confer special mentions.

The prize-giving public ceremony will be held in the month of June 2012 in the “Salone de’ Dugento” hall in Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze.

As in past editions, ISF-Fi will draw up and publish (in paper form and/or via web) a collection of the reports of accepted theses.

Deadline: 31 January 2012.

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