Theme 1: Technology, and innovation in engineering

Technology and innovation in engineering is a field of development for designing, creating and analyzing technological solutions.
Technology can be the knowledge of techniques, processes, etc., or can be built into machines to enable operation without detailed knowledge of how they work. However, the technological innovation system is a concept developed in the scientific field of innovation studies that helps to explain the nature and rate of technological change.
Topics in this theme include, but are not limited to :

Axis 1: Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence and Software Solutions

• Architectural and construction solutions
• Eco-construction and optimization of materials and constituents
• Rational use of resources
• Technological innovation and eco-design
• From corrective maintenance to predictive maintenance/responsible maintenance
• Industrial creativity and eco-innovation/ invention and creative processes
• Control devices and system management
• Information and digital system
• Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence and Software Solutions
• Technology strategy and innovation process
• Optimization Strategies and Intelligent Computing
• Signal, Image and Information Technologies
• Computer science, modeling and information processing and knowledge
• Electronic Systems and Communication Networks
• Green and Smart Communications Systems
• Communications Networks and Security
• Innovation of Mobile, Communicating and Cooperative Systems
• Networked objects, control and communication systems
• Sciences and Techniques of Automation and Industrial Computing
• Multimedia, Information Systems and Advanced Computing

Axis 2: Electrical engineering

• Automation and monitoring
  • Advanced control systems
  • Automation, monitoring systems
  • Electrical system diagnostics
• AI applied to electrical machines
  • Artificial intelligence and EXPERT system
  • Interactions between networks and electrical machines
  • intelligent computing
• Electronic technology
  • Electronics and micro-electronics
  • Power electronics applications
  • Mechatronics
• Energy
  • Renewable energies and smart grids
  • Energy management and conversion systems

Axis 2: mechanical engineering

• Mechanics of materials
  • Modeling the behavior of materials
  • Biomechanics and biomaterials
  • Crystallography and diffraction analysis
  • Tribology
  • Fatigue and damage
  • Polymers and composite materials
  • Smart materials
  • Cutting and tool wear
• Design and manufacture
  • Modeling and calculation of structures
  • Design methodology
  • Eco-design and eco-production
  • CAD/CAE/CAM integration & tolerance
  • Manufacturing processes, welding, additive manufacturing
  • Production planning and scheduling
  • supply chain management
  • Applied research and technology transfer
  • Analysis of complex systems
• Fluids
  • Fluid-Structure Interaction
  • Mechanics of fluid heat transfer
  • Lubrication
• Dynamics, vibration and acoustics
  • Vibro-acoustic
  • Vibration of structures and machinery
  • Fast dynamics
  • Machine dynamics
• Industry 4.0 and maintenance
  • Diagnosis and detection of mechanical failures
  • Reliability Based Maintenance
  • Non-destructive testing
  • Systems engineering and robotics
  • Intelligent industrial systems

Theme 2: Economics and management of development

Sustainability in the economic, social and cultural context is an essential component for the achievement of SD objectives as foreseen by international organizations and stakeholders in the field. It assumes respect for fundamental conditions and principles such as: democracy, equity, accountability, training and awareness, precaution, prevention and evaluation; consultation, partnership and participation; and education,…
The achievement of sustainability in the economic, social and cultural context necessarily involves the mobilization of all actors in society: States, companies, governmental and non-governmental organizations and citizens, and the synergy of their various efforts to aim of creating common objectives and a coherent approach to interact democratically and build a new paradigm of development and therefore of society.
For this theme, the areas below are indicative, and not an exhaustive list:

Axis 1: Social and Solidarity Economy / Social Entrepreneurship

• International Economic Integration
• Quantitative Economics of Development
• Household behavior, family economy and industrial economy
• Green policy and economic and ecological growth
• Society, environment and sustainable growth
• Public policy, industry, legislation and practices related to sustainability
• FDI and growth
• Territorial development and sustainable development
• Economy at the service of ecology
• Tools for sustainable development and eco-responsibility
• CSR and business competitiveness
• Creation of value in sustainable development
• Societal and ethical concerns of companies
• Innovation and social entrepreneurship
• Coaching and support for social projects
• Associative and collaborative management
• Economic impacts of Covid 19
• Public policies post covid 19

Axis 2: Management, Finance and Development

• Organizational challenges related to sustainable development
• Prospective, Strategy and Sustainable Development
• Socially Responsible Investments
• Professional development and team management
• Responsible human resources policy
• Governance and CSR in SMEs
• Family business and partnership governance
• CSR reporting and performance indicator
• CSR practices in management
• Governance Practices and Business Ethics
• Microfinance and development
• Integration of the environmental component into financial reasoning
• Bank assignment from developing countries
• Banking practices in the face of the Covid 19 pandemic
• Management after Covid 19

Axis 3: Transport, logistics and quality management

• Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Sustainable mobility and ecological travel
• Technological innovation and green growth in transport
• Organization of cities and transport (smart cities, …..
• Infrastructure and technology (telecommunications, intelligent systems, data centers
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Resource allocation and waste reduction.
• MQSE: Quality, Safety and Environment Management
• Impacts of the Covid 19 pandemic on mobility

Axis 4: Social and societal marketing, and fair trade

• Corporate social responsibility
• Cause related marketing, green marketing
• Digital Marketing, Mobile Marketing and Artificial Intelligence
• Social media, SEO and marketing
• Digital transformation
• Sustainable development and opportunity to create innovative products
• Fair trade
• Sustainable communication, sustainable distribution
• Communication during the Covid 19 pandemic
• Consum’actor, eco-design and eco-product
• The post-covid consumer

Theme 3: Sustainable chemistry, materials and nanomaterials

Axis 1: Chemistry for the environment

• Management of biological resources and industrial waste
• Electrochemistry and Environment
• Treatment of industrial waste and its environmental impacts
• Green chemistry
• Biotechnology
• Heterocyclic Chemistry, Natural Products and Reactivity
• Recovery of Useful Materials
• Natural water treatment
• Recovery of water discharges and industrial effluents
• 3R concept: Reduce, reuse and recycle.
• Chemical reaction engineering
• Membranes and Environmental Biotechnology
• Industrial Process and Systems Engineering
• Environment, Health & Safety

Axis 2: Materials Science

• Physico-Chemistry of Materials
• Multifunctional Materials and Application
• Materials, Optimization and Energy for Sustainability
• Ecological textiles and para-textiles
• Recycling and chemical recovery of waste
• Biomass conversion
• Degradable & biodegradable polymers
• Nanotechnology
• Composites, nanocomposites and their applications
• Biomaterials and Biosynthesis
• Eco-friendly papers and packaging
• Characterization, Metrology and Fundamentals
• Synthesis and characterization of new catalytic materials

Theme 4: Sustainable energy and environmental sciences

Sustainable development is a theme present in all the activities of our congress and specifically in terms of renewable and clean energies.
Producing energy and using it rationally and ecologically is the only way to expect clean and safe energy in the future.
In the context of sustainable development, talking about energy means introducing a social and environmental dimension to the production and use of all forms of energy as a priority for society.
Energy efficiency and renewable energy are often considered to be the “two pillars” of a sustainable energy policy. Both must be developed concurrently to stabilize and then reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
For this theme, the areas below are indicative, and not an exhaustive list:

Axis 1: Energy Control and Management

• Renewable energies
  • Solar energy (photovoltaic, thermal, hybrid, etc.)
  • Wind power
  • Hydro-electric power
  • geothermal energy
  • The biomass
• Energy efficiency (in buildings, in industry, etc.)
• Cogeneration, trigeneration, quadrigeneration
• Heat and mass transfer
• Fluid mechanics
• Combustion
• Energy and environment

Axis 2: Functioning of ecosystems and protection of the environment

• Analysis of planetary changes (greenhouse effect, climate change, bio diversity, etc.)
• Understanding of environments and ecosystems and management of climate risks
• The living environment and the environment-health relationship
• Adaptation of agricultural and industrial production methods
• Processing and waste management
• Sustainable and safe exploitation of natural and energy resources
• Energy recovery from waste
• Management and Valorization of Forest Resources
• Profitable and environmentally friendly industrial development, ecological and digital transformations
• Ecological and solidarity transition
• Sustainable Development Environment
• Environmental Biotechnology
• Application of Chemistry to Natural Resources and Substances and to the Environment
• Wastewater and Environment
• Natural Water Treatment
• Modeling in Hydraulics and Environment
• Electrochemistry and Environment
• Application of Chemistry to Natural Resources and Substances and to the Environment
• Treatment and Recovery of Water Waste

Theme 5: Pedagogy, teaching and socio-human processes

The implementation of the SDGs at the socio-human level focuses largely on the social inclusion of populations, the fight against poverty and the preservation of human rights. This theme focuses on the social and human aspects of sustainable development. It proposes to highlight the preponderant role of teaching and education in the fight against poverty and unemployment through the strengthening of employability and technology transfer.

Axis 1: Teaching, employability and educational innovation

• Social commitment in Pedagogy and teaching
• Innovative teaching practices (active pedagogy, project-based pedagogy, etc.)
• Pedagogical innovation and technology transfer
• Pedagogies and support for entrepreneurship
• Valorization of learning for professional integration
• Preparation for the jobs of tomorrow and employability
• Digital at the service of education
• Self-training, continuing education and development
• Technology transfer, applied research and professionalization of teaching
• Partnership and openness to the socio-economic environment
• Pedagogical innovation in the face of the Covid 19 pandemic
• University-Company Management: Interdisciplinary Approach

Axis 2: Socio-human processes

• Education
• Quality of life, health and food
• Poverty and inequality
• Consumption and lifestyles
• Population dynamics and cultural diversity
• Food Safety
• Method of governance of companies (governance and public policies)
• Preservation of human rights, human flourishing
• Sustainable development and lifestyle change