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Category: Activity Fund

IFAC Activity Fund — direct funding for TC-led initiatives, summer schools, workshops, outreach and regional events.

  • CTRL+ESC: Control Theory Escape Room Development at TU Berlin

    To help introduce control engineering and its underlying principles to the general public, this project created a fun, engaging and accessible way of learning about and being exposed to control engineering by developing a suitable “escape room” for the general public, which consists of a set of puzzles, located in a room (or a collection…

  • Female Historical Influencers in Automatic Control – Part 3

    Women are generally a minority in control. Role models are key when attracting diverse groups.

  • ‘Empowering Tomorrow’s Innovators’: Unleashing the Potential of Girls in Control Engineering in South Africa

    This project aims to create awareness of automation and control among 9 to15-year-old girls at rural and urban schools in South Africa as part of STEM education.

  • Build, Control and Fly: Mini Drone Activities

    This project aimed to design a series of activities to engage a diverse range of young people in hands-on learning with a focus on mathematics, physics, and programming of drones in a controlled lab environment. The target audience for the workshop was GCSE (age:14-16 years) and A-level (Age:16-18 years) students.

  • Graduate School on Advanced Sliding Mode Control

    The graduate school on advanced sliding mode control was proposed at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India, from 5-10 December 2024. The main aim of this school was to promote the role of control engineering, especially the sliding mode technique, among young researchers and students to encourage them to pursue a career in control…

  • The Control Engineering Exercises Journal – IT infrastructure costs for the startup period

    We are piloting a mechanism aimed at promoting the sharing of open-access control education resources. This initiative revolves around a journal-like publication of conceptual exercises accompanied by their solutions.

  • Empowering Women in Science: Control Strategies to Close the Diversity and Inclusion Gap

    The workshop brought together voices from academia, industry, policy-making, and the non-profit sector to address the ongoing underrepresentation of women in STEM fields. Held at the Polytechnic University of Bari following the SENSYS 2025 event, the initiative explored key challenges, real-world practices, and actionable strategies for fostering more equitable environments. Through keynote presentations, poster sessions,…

  • 2nd IFAC Latin American Women in Control Engineering Meeting

    The 2nd IFAC Latin American Women in Control Engineering Meeting gathered over 30 female students, professionals, and researchers in Cancún, Mexico, to promote visibility, networking, and collaboration in automatic control. The event featured a career-trajectory panel, interactive activities such as the Control Marathon, a workshop on mentoring and leadership, and research presentations. Supported by IFAC…

  • Developing children’s tridimensional ordinality through control systems and robots

    This project introduced primary school students to foundational STEM concepts through interactive activities like a Robot Maze Challenge and an Electronic Number Line. Designed to improve visuospatial and arithmetic skills while reducing math anxiety, the initiative successfully engaged over 450 participants across Castleknock National School and Maynooth University’s Open Day. Additionally, the project generated an…

  • IFAC Newsletter – August 2026

    View and download the August 2026 issue of the Newsletter.