IFF took part in a webinar on Monday 5 July involving the UIC’s Africa and Middle East regions on the theme of “Railway Training – Best Practices”.

This webinar, which gathered more than 50 participants, was opened by François Davenne, Director General of UIC and Ali İhsan Uygun, Director General of TCDD and President of the UIC Middle East Region.

The topics discussed during this event were varied: training models in the UIC African region, priorities in railway training, international knowledge transfer, digital transformation of training during COVID-19, bilateral cooperation and new initiatives in the field of training…etc.

Among the speakers, in addition to ONCF, were Turkish Railways (TCDD) and Iranian Railways, CAMRAIL, as well as DB Akademie and the International Directorate of Italian Railways.

IFF’s intervention was focused on the theme of “Training and bilateral cooperation”, an opportunity to present the originality of its model.

This webinar was also an opportunity to share the progress of UIC projects, in particular the Train Rail Hackathon competition organised by the Expertise and Talent Development Platform (TEDP).

Mr. Mohammed Rabie KHLIE, DG of ONCF and President of the UIC Africa Region, closed the session.