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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