The Montevenda Engineering International Association, is a foundation with headquarters in Lugano (Switzerland), which aims at the promotion and development of ethical engineering, a term with which we denote a philosophy of technology and applied science that focuses about Man and the Environment in which it lives, and on Society.

1. Montevenda Engineering
International Association
- Foundation for Development of Ethical Engineering -
Presentation
Lugano, august 8, 2009
Gualtiero A.N. Valeri
- President –
www.montevenda.net - www.montevenda.eu
Montevenda Engineering International Association

2. The Montevenda Engineering
International Association
The Montevenda Engineering International Association, is a foundation with headquarters in Lugano
(Switzerland), which aims at the promotion and development of ethical engineering, a term with which we
denote a philosophy of technology and applied science that focuses about Man and the Environment in
which it lives, and on Society.
Lugano
Montevenda Engineering International Association

3. Science: what for us?
We see in science and technology as one tool to
improve dialogue and relations between
Peoples and the promotion of socio-economic
development, particularly for People most
disadvantaged today.
"Concern for Man and his fate must always form the main interest of all the efforts of scientific activity.
Do not forget in the midst of your diagrams and your equations"
- Albert Einstein -
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4. Our goals
The Montevenda Engineering International Association is
composed of an international network of specialists and companies
working in the fields of engineering, design, chemistry and applied
sciences and arts in general and focuses in particular in the field of
technological innovation.
It has such fundamental principles:
 the centrality of Man than to science and technology;
 that the progress of humanity should be primarily moral and
intellectual;
 that technology has to produce, before anything else, better social
conditions and a better quality of life for all Peoples of the World.
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5. Some projects in development
The Montevenda Engineering International Association is working, among others, on these
projects:
Thermochemurgy Project, for converting biomass waste into basic chemicals and biofuels by
thermochemistry;
Biochemurgy Project, for converting biomass waste into basic chemicals and biofuels through
biochemical,
Arnesìs Project, for converting waste into basic chemicals and biofuels by thermochemistry;
Wastegas Project, for converting waste into basic chemicals and biofuels via gasification;
Energon Project, global system for documentation of energy resources and technologies;
Ceres Project, global system for documentation of biological species and biodiversity;
Universal Science Journal Project, the global repository of scientific literature.
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6. The major collaborations in place
The Montevenda Engineering International Association collaborates, among others,
with these organizations and institutions:
Foundation for Education and Research, Lugano, Chair of Legal Medicine,
University of Siena, Italy
Switzerland www.scienzemedicolegali.it
www.euroacademy.ch
Universidad Central del Parliament of the Mediterranean
Universidad San Francisco www.parlamentodelmeditarraneo.org
Ecuador, Quito de Quito, Ecuador
www.uce.edu.ec www.usfq.edu.ec
Sinergitec Consortium for the
Development of Advanced Metallurgy,
AssoMotoRacing, Italy Italy
Association for the study of history and www.sinergitec.it
encouraging the development of motor racing
competition
www.assomotoracing.it Montevenda Engineering International Association

7. Montevenda Engineering International Association
Arco Palace – Centro Studi, Via Besso, 59 – P.O. Box 416 - 6906 Lugano (CH)
Phone +41/91/91/966.80.86 – Telefax +41/91/966.10.92
Gualtiero A.N. Valeri, President, e-mail: valeri@montevenda.net
Stefano Pelladoni, VicePresident, e-mail: pelladoni@montevenda.net
Gianni Teggi, Secretary, e-mail: teggi@montevenda.net
Montevenda Engineering International Association