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Category: Activity Fund

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

  • October 2024 Call

    We are pleased to announce the following project awards from the October 2024 call for applications of the IFAC Activity Fund!

  • IFAC Latin American Women in Control Engineering (IFAC LA-WICE) meeting

    On October 20, 2024, the inaugural Latin American Meeting of Women in Control Engineering took place, bringing together over 40 women—students and professionals—from Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Peru. This event was held during the IEEE ICA ACCA 2024 conference in Santiago, Chile.

  • Cybathlon 2024 – South Africa hub

    CYBATHLON 2024, which happened in Switzerland, with a hub in Durban, South Africa, is the Olympics competition of the prosthetic industry – a platform that challenges teams from all over the world to develop assistive technologies suitable for everyday use with and for people with disabilities.

  • April 2024 Call

    We are pleased to announce the following project awards from the April 2024 call for applications of the IFAC Activity Fund!

  • October 2023 Call

    The IFAC Activity Fund’s October 2023 Call features several sponsored projects aimed at promoting control engineering. These initiatives include the IFAC LA-WICE meeting in Chile, workshops empowering young girls in South Africa, interactive mini-drone activities for high school students, and underwater ROV-based treasure hunts.

  • EECI International Graduate School on Control IGSC 2023

    The European Embedded Control Institute (EECI), based at CentraleSupélec (Paris-Saclay University), annually organizes the International Graduate School on Control (IGSC) under the leadership of Elena Panteley and Antoine Girard and with sponsorship from IFAC TC 9.4. Designed to provide advanced training in automatic control and systems engineering, the program offers weekly, independent 21-hour modules throughout…

  • (Re)CreativeRobot: (Re)Creative Mobile Robotics for Kids

    The aim of this project was to propose new on-site perennial interactive workshops for children and youths to develop practical skills on mobile robots and drones, motivating them to continue their curriculum in engineering.

  • Historical Female Influencers in Automatic Control

    This activity collected material of female historical control influencers. The project members interviewed several women with long careers in control engineering and collected material from different sources. The material was then consolidated.

  • ‘in Control’ – the first podcast on control theory

    The goal of this project is to develop the first podcast on control theory, which will be called “inControl”.

  • Interactive wave energy exhibition tank

    Interactive wave energy exhibition tank to demonstrate effectiveness of energy-maximising control during public engagement activities