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Global Grand Challenges Summit 2013
 On the 12-13 March 2013 the Academy hosted over 450 leading engineers, policy makers and stakeholders from related disciplines from across the globe at the inaugural Global Grand Challenges Summit.
The Summit, organised by the Royal Academy of Engineering in partnership with the national engineering academies of the US and China, and supported by Lockheed Martin, the EPSRC and the IET, sought to provide a new global platform for the world’s leading thinkers to share their ideas with the next generation of engineers on how to develop the international frameworks, tools and collaborations needed to solve our common global challenges.
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Royal Academy of Engineering is the UK’s national
academy for engineering and technology. As such, it
seeks to use its leadership position to strengthen
the contribution of UK engineering to sustainable
wealth creation and quality of life. Despite its
national remit, achievement of the Academy’s
objectives requires a global outlook. Engineering
research, practice and markets rely on transnational
flows of goods, services, knowledge and people, and
engineers have essential roles to play in addressing
the world’s most pressing challenges, including
climate change, global poverty and international
security.
The Academy's international
interests are growing and include: developing
relations with other national academies; leading
debate and public policy projects; promoting UK
engineering capability; and building capacity in
developing countries.
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