IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committe (HAC) - Events

HAC Events funding enables IEEE members and organizational units (OUs) to accomplish one or more of the following strategic priorities through conferences and events around the world:

• Raise awareness of humanitarian technology and sustainable development and how technically trained people can contribute;

• Provide training to increase the capacity of IEEE members and OUs to successfully undertake humanitarian technology and sustainable development activities;

• Showcase the results and share lessons learned of IEEE humanitarian technology and sustainable development projects;

• Develop relationships with the greater sustainable development community outside IEEE.

Application Requirements:

• Executive summary of the event. Include the driving need(s) in your geographic area.

• Explain how each HAC strategic priority selected will be covered at the event. What are the intended activities, outputs, and outcomes? How will these be measured? o A very basic example: Activity: 3 hour workshop on impact assessment Output: 75 attendees trained Outcome: 10 IEEE Sections will implement impact assessment of projects in 2020

The following types of activities will NOT be considered for financial support:

• Individual requests to support personal conference travel.

• Purely technical conferences/events/activities, with no clearly articulated relevance to sustainable development and humanitarian technology, and/or post-emergency humanitarian response

• Conferences/events/activities that do not consider implications or impact of technology, science and/or engineering and have no clearly articulated relevance to sustainable development, humanitarian technology, and/or post-emergency humanitarian response

• IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Series

● Regular IEEE organizational unit (OU) meetings, such as section, chapter, or committee meetings

● Scholarships to individuals

● Participation of individual(s)/team(s) at competitions or awards

● Non-event related activities including projects or seed funding for startups

How to Submit Please submit via the IEEE HAC Online Funding Opportunities Portal

Reporting:

● A summary report on the event with evaluation metrics must be submitted within two months following the event. To provide context, a brief overview of the overall event should be presented, with pictures if possible, and with the report primarily focusing on the perceived impact of those activities supported by IEEE HAC. Additional reporting may be required of events that receive funding through the invitationonly call.