The International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology (shortened as “IKCEST”) is a category 2 centre under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (shortened as “UNESCO”). IKCEST was established on June 2, 2014. The Chinese Academy of Engineering is responsible for the operation and management of the IKCEST.

    IKCEST is a comprehensive and international knowledge centre devoted to the engineering sciences, technology and applied technology. IKCEST aims at connecting engineering sciences and technology institutions globally, assembling various digital resources relating to engineering sciences and technology, building up a public data service platform and corresponding service environment, and coordinating the building of various professional knowledge systems, thus providing knowledge-based services at a global scale in the form of consultancies, scientific research and education for policy-makers and engineering science and technology professionals in the world, with particular reference to the developing countries.

    The specific tasks and functions of IKCEST are as follows: to establish an international engineering and technology resources hub; to establish a public data service platform, and to develop the technology for mining and analyzing knowledge from big data; to cooperatively build professional knowledge service systems, and to build capacity in developing countries; to foster interdisciplinary engineering talents with big data processing ability; and to assist UNESCO to fulfill its aims and support its action plans.

    With the support of the College of Computer Science and Technology of Zhejiang University, IKCEST will organize an International Training Workshop 2015 in Hangzhou, China, scheduled on December 3-9, 2015, with the theme of Big Data Technology Application and Knowledge Service. The training workshop aims at helping developing countries cultivate talent and build capacity in the field of information technology and improving the data aggregating, processing, mining, analyzing capabilities of professionals to better support sustainable development. IKCEST warmly welcome engineering science and technology personnel and related administrators from all over the world to participate in this upcoming training workshop.