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LINKING PEOPLE, JOINING NATIONS
The IIW WeldCare programme continued to be the flagship for the promotion
of IIW membership to developing countries and the benefits this could bring to various
regions of the world, including workshops on subjects such as ‘Technology Diffusion’ and
‘Governance’. These workshops were also held successfully around the world in countries
such as South Africa, Nigeria, India, Egypt and China.
In 2013 WG-RA introduced a new project entitled ‘Establishing a
National Welding Capability (NWC)’ as part of its WeldCare programme.
With the support of the Indian Institute ofWelding, aNWCworkshop attended
by over 30 senior people was delivered in India by Smallbone as Chair of
both the WG-RA and the IIWTask Group
Governance
(TG-GOV). This was
part of the third IIW International Congress held in India, in New Delhi in
2014 and assisted in the development of the Indian Institute’s ‘Welding for
Nation Building’ project. This was followed by a stream of events as part of
the Indian Institute ofWelding’s 50th year Golden Jubilee celebrations which
also included the 6th IIWWelding Research and Collaboration Colloquium
held in Hyderabad in 2016 linked in with IIW SG-RES. Dr Arun Kumar
Bhaduri, Mr R. Srinivasan and Mr Parimal Biswas, among many others in
the Indian Institute of Welding, played significant roles in the development
of welding and IIW in India.
IIW Commission XIV
Education and Training
(C-XIV) was a committed supporter
of the NWC project and played a key role in assisting and guiding member countries
Record attendance at the 63rd IIW Annual Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey in
2010 when almost 900 participants attended