The Tunnelling and Underground Space industry has just been endowed with a specific tool for the professional education and training of its young specialists: the ITACET Foundation for Education and Training on Tunnelling and Underground Space Use was officially created on September 25th, 2009 in Lausanne. The Foundation benefits from the support of the network of ITA’s experts and of the network of universities, industry, suppliers etc gathered in the ITA-CET Committee for the implementation of its training and educational actions.

The ITACET Foundation was officially created in Lausanne at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) on Friday 25 September 2009.

ITACET Foundation held its first Great Event in Riyadh from 6 – 9 December 2009.

85 participants were registered at the Training Session organised by the Foundation on 6-7 December. The participants were coming not only from the Ministry of Transport but also from the Ministry of Interior and from the Ministry of Defence.

The Foundation is organizing the annual training session for young professionals at the occasion of the ITA World Tunnelling Congresses; in 2010, the participants will be mainly coming from Canada.

The corresponding programme, here enclosed was prepared in coordination with the Tunnelling Association of Canada and with the ITA-CET Committee.

The Foundation is accepting applications of young professionals from developing countries, in order to select some to be invited to the WTC 2010 Training Session.

Download the programme of WTC 2010 Training Session>>

2010  - Sochi (Russia) Foundation Seminar ITACET

2011 - Helsinki (Finland) Training session WTC 2011

From now on, our website: foundation.itacet.org will keep you updated on the most recent actions of the Foundation. To Know more, please have a look at our  "NEWS" rubric.

The Foundation would not exist without the precious support of our founders, sponsors and supporters. To know who they are, visit our "FOUNDERS & DONORS" rubric.

In our rubric "ACTIVITIES" you can download the tentative courses of our current seminars and training sessions. You will also learn more about our actions and on what the Foundation can do for you.

To know more about the administrative and legal basis of the Foundation, please read our "ORGANISATION" rubric.

The "CONTACT" rubric gives you all the details you need to contact our permanent secretariat or our board members.
There you find also an access map to reach our offices at the EPFL of Lausanne.