News
2017-11-22
Reducing the size of every electronic device - Miniaturization of Printed Circuit Boards
Whether designing miniaturized electromechanical systems, wireless telecommunications products or electronics packaging, engineers who develop electronics/electrical products face two common challenges: time and space. No matter what the final product is, engineers, designing products in this area ...
2017-11-21
Contributing to the Additive Manufacturing standardisation effort in Europe
On the 16th of November, a meeting of the European Committee for standardisation took place. The gathering happened in TagusPark congress centre during the 25th EWF’s anniversary celebration. This technical committee is responsible for developing standards regarding additive manufacturing ...
2017-11-13
EWF 25th anniversary
This year, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the EWF, a series of conferences will take place in Portugal focused on the future of European industry and the qualifications needed to achieve it. Throughout this week and for debates on themes such as 3D printing or the factories of the future, will ...
2017-10-25
15-16 November - European Conference on Sectoral International Qualifications
The conference aims to present and validate a methodology for aligning International Sectoral Qualifications with EU policies/tools (EQF, Learning Outcomes, and ECVET), which is being organised in the framework of the RAINBOW project, co-financed by the EU, under the Erasmus + programme. The ...
2017-10-25
15 November - European Strategic Approach on Additive Manufacturing
AM-Motion: A strategic approach to increasing Europe’s value proposition for Additive ManufacturingAre you interested in Additive Manufacturing?Join the event organised in collaboration with AM-Motion and come together stakeholders around significant EU projects. Registrations open until ...
2017-10-24
7th European Joining Platform General Assembly Meeting
Join the like-minded organisations and influence the direction of future research in joining and associated welding methods! On November, 16th is taking place the 7th General Assembly Stakeholder Meeting fo the Joining Sub-Platform to Manufuture (http://www.joining-platform.com), in Lisbon, ...
2017-10-09
Additive Manufacturing – a whole new world of welding technology requiring a new set of machines and skills
During October 10 and 11, EWF represented by its Chief Executive, Ing. Rute Ferraz participates at the Welding Additive Manufacturing Conference, one of the most important conferences sponsored by the American Welding Society. The event addresses additive metal manufacturing (AMM), best described ...
2017-09-29
SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN 2017
EWF was pleased to be present at the SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN 2017, together with our member DVS - German Welding Society. The world's premier fair in the joining, cutting and surfacing sectors. During this event was held the EWF's European Young Welders competition, WELDCUP. WeldCup ...
2017-09-29
Steps forward in increasing EWF Qualification System
On the 13th September EWF participated in a meeting in Brussels with representatives from ESCO (Multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences; Qualifications and Occupations). ESCO mission is to make Qualifications more transparent across Europe by using a common European Language for ...
2017-09-28
RAINBOW project: transparency and recognition of qualifications
On 12th September EWF participated in a joint session with the EACEA and DG Employment and Social Affairs & Inclusion aiming at discussing Quality Assurance at European Level for enhanced transparency and recognition of qualifications, in the framework of the RAINBOW project.During the meeting, ...
