World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development
World Engineering Day 2027
The UNESCO International Day that celebrates engineers and engineering, every year on 4 March. The main WFEO celebration of the 2027 edition takes place in Rome, Italy.
Next World Engineering Day
4March2027 · Thursday
- Theme
- To be announced
- Main celebration
- Rome, Italy
- Hackathon
- Registrations open
Take part in 2027
4 March is the focal point; World Engineering Day runs as a year-long campaign around it.
Find or list an event
Organisations around the world list their World Engineering Day events on one global map and calendar. 13 upcoming listings today.
Enter the Hackathon
Teams of 3 to 5 led by an engineering student or young engineer under 30. Theme: sustainable transport. €7,000 in prizes.
Share World Engineering Day
Official logo and social media stickers for WFEO Member and Associate organisations. 2027 assets: To be announced
2027 WFEO Hackathon on Sustainable Transport Engineering
Engineering Sustainable Transport Solutions for People, Planet and Prosperity
Advancing SDGs 3, 7, 9 and 11, in connection with the United Nations Decade of Sustainable Transport 2026–2035.
SDG 3SDG 7SDG 9SDG 11
- 14 September 2026Registrations open
Done - 20 November 2026Challenges released
Coming up - 12 December 2026Submissions due (23:59 UTC)
Coming up - 4 March 2027Winners announced in Rome
Coming up
Status as of 13 October 2026.
A day celebrated around the world
- 18listed events on 4 March 2026
- 108in February and March 2026
- 35countries across all 153 dated listings
Coming up: next events marked “official”
28–29 Oct2026
18 Nov2026
7–10 Dec2026
Listings as published on the worldengineeringday.net events platform, read 13 October 2026. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).
Every edition, kept
Each year has its own edition: theme, main celebration, programme, Hackathon, events and resources. When the next edition opens, the last one moves into the archive intact, so nothing is overwritten.
- 2026 Smart engineering for a sustainable future through innovation and digitalization
- 2025 Shaping our sustainable future through engineering
- 2024 Engineering solutions for a sustainable world
- 2023 Engineering innovation for a resilient world
- 2022 Build back wiser, engineering the future
- 2021 Engineering for a healthy planet
- 2020 First celebrations
Engineering for the Sustainable Development Goals
65 organisations share how their engineering advances the SDGs, filterable by goal.
SDG 1SDG 2SDG 3SDG 4SDG 5SDG 6SDG 7SDG 8SDG 9SDG 10SDG 11SDG 12SDG 13SDG 14SDG 15SDG 16SDG 17
Part of WFEO
World Engineering Day was initiated by the World Federation of Engineering Organizations, which co-leads the annual celebrations with UNESCO. Founded on 4 March 1968, WFEO chose its founding date as the day.
Go to the WFEO website (concept) (on the WFEO website concept) · Find a WFEO member organisation (on the WFEO website concept) · wfeo.org (on wfeo.org)
Source: WED history; worldengineeringday.net/hackathon; WED digital assets; worldengineeringday.net public events feed; wfeo.org/about-us. Read 13 October 2026.