Mr. Philippe Pypaert, Programme Specialist for Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO Beijing Office, and Ms. Li Ang from UNESCO Beijing Office visited the International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology under the Auspices of UNESCO (IKCEST) on May 25, 2018. Song Dexiong, Director-General of the Department of General Administration of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Executive Deputy Director of IKCEST, greeted the visiting delegation. Liu Chang, Director of Division of International Cooperation of IKCEST, Wang Juanle, Research Fellow and Executive Director of the IKCEST Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service System (DRR), Ma Yingchen, Zhang Ye and Fang Ying from the IKCEST Secretariat and members of the DRR team attended the meeting. Liu Chang presided over the meeting.

Liu Chang first introduced IKCEST’s founding philosophy, mission and development progress, and played a video on the overview of IKCEST. Wang Juanle then gave a presentation on IKCEST DRR from the perspectives of its background, mission, main functions, implementation progress, challenges and future possible cooperation, and conducted an online demonstration.

Mr. Philippe Pypaert and the IKCEST team had extensive exchanges and in-depth discussions on policy formulation and its impact, transformation of knowledge theories into actions of sustainable development, scientific decision making in disaster risk reduction, problems of urban disasters, climate change and potential threats along the Belt and Road, and application of online knowledge. Liu Chang thanked Mr. Philippe Pypaert and his col leagues for their visit, and expressed IKCEST’s willingness to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the UNESCO Beijing Office.