Info

Cognome

Wojewoda

Nome

Nicolò

Sesso / Gender

Uomo/Male

nato il/birthday

09/08/1984

Contatti

Stato/State

PG

Città/City

Spoleto

Nazione

Italy

Dicci chi sei/About me

I mix things. At home and at work, my mind is constantly taking an idea here, an opportunity there, and putting them together to create something new. I need my daily dose of creativity. When I’m in the kitchen, this usually results in a different recipe for pancakes. When I’m in the studio, I mix records and make songs. When I’m with other young people like me, I feel their emotions, understand what grinds their gears and what turns them on, and share their passions; and whenever I mix all that, I never know what may come out of it, but it usually turns to be something amazing.
It’s with that spirit that my life's aspect of doing good for others has developed so far. I rarely have the opportunity to choose the pieces I’m mixing; I see what’s out there, and more specifically what’s around me, and try to connect ideas with resources, people with other people, skills with problems, tools with solutions.

My main mix for the past 5 years has been working with students, professionals and academics to improve the relevance and impact of engineering disciplines on the modern challenges of communities worldwide. I have done that through extensive involvement, initially in Europe and then globally, with organizations in the field of engineering education. As a co-founder and President of the Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED) I organized events for hundreds of participants with sponsors such as IBM and InfoSys, empowered students to take action in their universities and mobilized a global network of volunteers to sustain these activities by leveraging my passion for the Web as a tool for collaboration and communication. These efforts earned me Delft University of Technology’s “Rector’s Student Prize for Internationalization 2008”. My experience and strategic insights have led me to leadership positions of various EU cooperation initiatives in the sector. I hold a M.Sc. double degree in Engineering and Policy Analysis from the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) and the Harbin Institute of Technology (People’s Republic of China), as well as a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Rome, “La Sapienza” (Italy).

I was also recently selected as a delegate from Italy to One Young World, a platform whose first event will take place in London next February, where 1500 people under 25 from all over the world will get together to debate and work on current global challenges. The platform has been described by its founders (Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Bob Geldof and others) as a "Young UN".

Livello studi/studies level

Master

Ambiti tematici

Educazione/education

Website

http://www.nicolowojewoda.com/

Studi

Lingua

Italiano

Ottimo

Inglese

Ottimo

Francese

Scarso

Spagnolo

Scarso

Informazioni sull'organizzazione di apparteneza

Aderisco ad Organizzazioni/Organization addicted

Si/yes

Organizzazione / Organization

Ragione sociale/Name

Student Platform for Engineering Education Development

Persone coinvolte/Persons involved

500

Dimensione organizzazione/Size of organization

piccola/small

Raggio d’azione/Range of action

internazionale/international

Aree geografiche

Africa
America Latina e Centro America
Asia e Pacifico
Europa
Medio Oriente
Nord America

Partecipazione a reti e/o programmi locali, nazionali, internazionali
/Participation in networks and/or local, national and international programmes

Member of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies.

Target group

18 - 30

Massimo tre progetti da raccontare/Description of three project completed

6 Global Student Forums (GSFs) organized in 4 continents. 250+ students empowered to take action in their universities and countries, some of whom started their own organization as a result of participating in our activities.

One of the GSFs has had the theme "Sustainability and engineering education" and has produced sustainability plans for local action in the participants' campuses and communities.

More info here:
http://www.worldspeed.org/