The 10th AECEF (Association of European Civil Engineering Faculties) Symposium combined with a meeting of the AECEF board is now past us. The meeting was dedicated to the current issues related to the cooperation between the university and industry with respect to educating civil engineers.

The seminar was organised by WUST’s Faculty of Civil Engineering. The chairman of the Symposium organizing committee and the AECEF meeting was Dr. Piotr Berkowski, representative of the Civil Engineering Faculty in the Board of the Association.

The introductory reports were delivered by AECEF Secretary General, Professor Alfredo Soeiro from the University of Porto (Portugal), and Włodzimierz Szymczak, President of ECCE (European Council of Civil Engineers) of the previous term.

The two-day meeting (21-22 November) focused on issues related to models and methods of educating civil engineers so that they could solve problems generated by globalisation and environmental change.

The seminar was attended, among others, by:

• AECEF President - José Ferreira Lemos (Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Porto),
• AECEF Secretary General - Alfredo Soeiro (Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Porto), Ivica Završki,(University of Zagreb),
• Cedric D´Mello (School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University London),
• Aarne Jutila (Extraplan Oy, Espoo),
• Alan Kwan (Deputy Head of School, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University),
• Roode Liias (School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Tallinn University of Technology),
• Anatoly P. Malinovsky (Dean, Civil Engineering Faculty, Tomsk State University of Architecture and Building),
• Juris Smirnovs (Dean, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Riga Technical University).