Mr. Sergio Leite de Andrade, Vice-president of Strategic Affairs, received the Title of Meritorious of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Sergio Leite de Andrade, was honoured by FLOGEN with the 2024 Shechtman International Leadership Award at the Gala ceremony of FLOGEN’s 2024 Sustainability through Science and Technology / Sustainability through Science and Technology / Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit (SIPS 2024) in Crete, Greece, in October 2024 a ceremony presided by Dr. Florian Kongoli, SIPS President.

Award Web site: https://www.flogen.org/?p=19#toop Mr. Sergio Leite de Andrade was also honored with the symposium bearing his name: Leite International Symposium (10th Intl. Symp. on Advanced Sustainable Iron & Steel Making) at the same FLOGEN’s SIPS 2024 event. Official Web site here: https://www.flogen.org/sips2024/Sergio_Leite.php Following the footsteps of other FLOGEN award recipients who have subsequently achieve further recognition, Mr. Sergio Leite de Andrade was awarded the Title of Meritorious of the State of Rio de Janeiro by Deputy André and the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro otherwise known as Alerj. We wish similar future successes for all FLOGEN Award winners that were honoured during SIPS in previous years as documented in the pages of this web site.

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FLOGEN Sustainability through Science and Technology / Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit (SIPS), is a yearly event that is deeply science-focused and technology & engineering-oriented. It has been organized since 2003 by the not-for- profit corporation. FLOGEN Stars Outreach (www.flogen.org), which is dedicated to achieving sustainability through science and technology. It incorporates summit plenary lectures from well-known speakers that address the link between scientific, technology and engineering domains in the pursuit of sustainable development, as well as specific science, technology and engineering symposia that feature technical presentations with the same goals in mind.

Based on the FLOGEN Sustainability Framework (https://flogen.org/pdf/sips16_524FS.pdf), following a long and rich tradition, the summit covers 3 sustainability pillars: (1) Science, Technology & Industry, (2) Governance & Management and (3) Education & Civil Society. It attracts the participation of numerous Nobel laureates and many Distinguished Guests. It features in average about 50 scientific and technology symposia covering various distinguished fields. Academics, Engineers, Managers, Directors, CEOs, Medical Doctors, Lawyers, Economists and Politicians are in attendance. SIPS is held annually since 2003 in various countries around the world: https://www.flogen.org/?p=32#toop