The Auroville Earth Institute has been relatively busy during 2010; in fact so busy that Satprem Maïni did not have time to add regular news in the website. Hence, here is a brief summary of our 2010 activities.

AWARD

• Prince Sultan Bin Salman Award For Urban Heritage
• First prize given in May by Al-Turath Foundation, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Al Medy Mosque built in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2004 (Mosque of 457 m² built in 7 weeks).

AUROVILLE

• Realization Housing project going on 
• Completion of the first five apartments of the South East block
• Beginning 7 more apartments on the north block

• Ongoing training courses with people coming from all the over the world
• 565 trainees from 18 countries during various types of courses
• 9 awareness programmes, 28 interns for a few months and 15 weeks of one-week intensive courses

• Dissemination of information
• Welcoming 637 visitors at our centre
• 257,124 visitors on our website http://www.earth-auroville.com

INDIA OR ABROAD

• 9 Conferences, and workshops attended by Satprem Maïni
• April 17^th at Chennai as an invited speaker: National Colloquium on Disasters and Communication
• April 25^th & 26^th at Algiers, Algeria: Hands on workshop to ~250 students on building arches at the School of Architecture of Algiers
• April 27^th & 28^th April 2010 at Algiers, Algeria as an invited speaker: International conference “Architerre”, on earth architecture – Organised by the Algerian Ministry of Culture and Communication
• May 26^th & 27^th at Villefontaine, France, as an invited trainer: Hands on workshop to ~20 students on building arches, vaults and domes – Organised by CRATerre-ENSAG
• May 24^th to 29^th at Grenoble, France as an invited speaker: International Seminar “Terra Education 2010”, on Education activities of the UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture – Organised by the CRATerre-ENSAG and the UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture.
• May 21^st to 23^rd at Cairo, Egypt as an invited Keynote speaker and moderator: International Conference “Nocmat 2010”, on Non-conventional Materials and Technologies – Organised and sponsored by the Housing and Building National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt
• September 29^th & 30^th at Hyderabad as an invited speaker: National workshop “State action plans for eradication of shelterlessnes – Organised and sponsored by the Ministry of Rural Development
• November 5^th to 7^th at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA as an invited keynote speaker: International workshop on “Designing the Future of Earthen block Construction” – Organised by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
• December 15^th at the Aurangabad, India as the only speaker: Conference on ”Earthen architecture” – Organised by the Indian Institute of Engineers and Indian Institute of Architects at the Institute of Engineers

• Technology transfer
• August 10^th to 26^th at Port au Prince, Haiti: Consultancy and training on CSEB for the rehabilitation of earthquake affected areas, Requested by Thirst No More and sponsored by 1000 Job / Haiti

2011 seem to be even busier with conferences, training courses and technology transfers which are planned in 10 countries.