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The ITACET Foundation is delighted to announce that it has awarded a scholarship to Daniela Zapata from Colombia, who has enrolled on the 2018-2019 edition of the Specialized Master's in Tunnels and Underground Structures, run by the ENTPE/INSA in Lyon, France. The Foundation wishes Daniela all the best in her studies and future career.

John Paul Ramirez Santa was awarded an ITACET Foundation scholarship for the year 2017-2018. Now at the end of the academic year, he looks back and reflects on the MSc course at Warwick University:

At the invitation of Martin Herrenknecht, ITACET Foundation Council met at the Herrenknecht headquarters in Schwanau, Germany on 29th October.

As you may well know, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation was implemented during May 2018. This signals a drastic change in the law relating to how data is stored and used. ITACET Foundation has also had to comply with these new regulations and as a result we have made many changes and updates to our way of working. Here are just some examples of what we have done to comply:

Here at the ITACET Foundation we have been working hard on a new venture, that of the ‘Private Area’. Created as a digital document library on our website, we aim to put presentations given at training sessions into this Private Area. Our hope is that this area will serve as a source of knowledge and reference on all subjects underground for the future lecturers.

During the official opening ceremony of the World Tunneling Congress in Dubai on April 23, 2018, the former ITA President and longtime STUVA Managing Director Prof. Alfred Haack was honoured with the ITACET Award 2018.

The International Road Federation (IRF) is organizing its Global Road Conference which will take place on November 7th-9th 2018, in Las Vegas. This Conference is co-located with the Road2Tunnel Global Expo.

Sweta Nemani has received a scholarship from the ITACET Foundation to follow the Specialized Master's in Tunnelling and Tunnel Boring Machines at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy (2018 -2019)

Priscilla Antoniazza Campos from Brazil benefited from an ITACET Foundation scholarship for the year 2017 - 2018, enabling her to enrol on the Specialized Master's in Tunnels and Underground Works run at ENTPE / INSA - France

The Council of the ITACET Foundation met in Paris, France, on 9th Februray 2018 to discuss recent Foundation activities and current organizational, financial and strategic issues.

The ITACET Foundation's Council made the most of the presence of several of its members at the 5th IRF Middle East and North Africa Regional Congress and Exhibition in Dubai to hold a meeting. The meeting took place on October 30th 2017 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.

Alfredo Vasquez received a scholarship from the ITACET Foundation to follow the 2016-2017 edition of the Specialized Master's in Tunnelling and Underground Sructures, run by the ENTPE / INSA in Lyon France.

The ITACET Foundation was delighted to receive recent news from one of its scholarship students for the current academic year 2017-2018.

It is my great pleasure to announce that the ITACET Foundation and the IRF are joining their expertise to build a comprehensive programme of training sessions on tunnelling with the help of the ITA-CET Committee.

The ITACET Foundation is pleased to announce that it has granted two scholarships to students enrolled on ITA-endorsed Master courses for the academic year 2017 - 2018.

The mid October issue of the on-line magazine “TunnelTalk” included a special focus on education and training in the tunnelling industry. As part of this focus, an article was specifically dedicated to the work of the ITACET Foundation and ITA-CET Committee.

Social networks are becoming an increasingly important media used by organisations to communicate on their activities. With this in mind, the ITACET Foundation has recently increased its activity on its Linkedin page, with regular posts on forthcoming training sessions and events that have taken place.

This year's ITACET Foundation award was presented to one of the most influential figures in modern tunnelling, Dr Martin Herrenknecht of Herrenknecht AG.

The ITACET Foundation is pleased to present the latest issue of its newsletter, which as you can see has a brand new design.

The members of the Foundation's Council met in Paris on 31st March in order to discuss organizational, financial and strategic issues related to the Foundations’ activities.

Former ITACET Foundation scholarship beneficiary, Senthilnath Govindaraju Thangavelu, was recently named “Young Tunneller of the Year” at the NCE Tunnelling Awards 2016, which took place on the 8th December 2016 in London, UK.