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Encyclopedia > Raoul Weiler

Professor Dr. Weiler is President of the Brussels-EU Chapter of The Club of Rome and member of the Executive Committee of The Club of Rome. The Club of Rome is a global think tank that deals with a variety of international political issues. ... The Club of Rome is a global think tank that deals with a variety of international political issues. ...


He spent several years as a post doctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Catholic University of America in Washington DC in the US and at the Centre de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, France. Dr. Weiler’s career includes applied research, engineering and manager of information technology of a German multinational chemical company. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a competitive public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ...


During his professional activities, he was elected president of the Royal Flemish Engineers Association (K VIV), counting 11.000 academic engineers. He was long time active founder-president of different technological working groups and president of several international symposia, conferences and the World Congress on Filtration. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...


Dr. Weiler has lectured at different universities and teaches now at the University of Leuven about the relationship between technology and society for last year students in engineering and doctoral student. The Catholic University of Leuven, founded in 1425, is now the names of two Belgian universities, after the original university split in 1968: the Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, and the French-speaking Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium This is a disambiguation page — a navigational...


Professor Weiler is actively participating in the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) with a variety of Initiatives centered around ICT and Education. The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a UN-sponsored conference about information and communication. ...


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Centre for Science, Technology and Ethics (419 words)
From 1966 till 1968 Raoul Weiler was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Department Chemistry) and the Catholic University of America in Washington DC (Department Physics).
From 1968 till 1969 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique of the Université de Paris V. From 1970 till 1972 he lived in Germany where he worked for the group Bayer AG (Leverkusen) in the department of Applied Physics as a researcher R&D and process-engineer.
Raoul Weiler is also a member of various associations and committees in the field of Sciences, Engineering and Sustainable Development.
digitalcommons: Panel Two (1019 words)
Raoul Weiler, an engineer from Belgium, teaches at a Catholic university and is a member of the board of the Club of Rome.
Weiler would like to see framworks that are more open and where less power resides with one sector (like corporate publishers).
Weiler: the disappearance of cultures and languages means we need to brake the slide into fewer languages and cultures.
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