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PACES Plans for the Year Ahead
At its annual general meeting held last 15 May and in subsequent meetings of its Executive Board, newly elected PACES President Dr. Jane Gerardo-Abaya led the members and officers in conceptualizing plans for the coming year. These include a relaunch and expansion of...
PACES Elects New Officers
The Philippine Austrian Cultural and Educational Society (PACES) celebrated its 8th year of operation on 15 May 2024 by electing a new set of officers for the term 2024 to 2026. The new set of PACES officers are: Dr. Jane Gerardo-Abaya, President; Priscila...
Four PACES Scholars Get Their Diplomas
All four PACES scholars who were awarded STEMS75 scholarships in the year 2021have finally received their Bachelor of Science degrees. The scholars are: Mr. John Paul Dave Sarte Ebit, B.S. Information Technology at the Rizal Technological University, Mandaluyong...
5th PACES Floral Offering in Commemoration of the 125th Anniversary of Philippine Independence
The 5th PACES Floral Offering, held at Rathaus Garden in Vienna on June 12, 2023, began with opening remarks by PACES president Marizel Rojas, an invocation by PACES treasurer Nilsa Fischer, and welcome remarks by former PACES president Malou Reininger, setting the...
Government Study Projects Need For Engineers
The Philippines will need over 1.8 million engineers by 2025. Most of that need will be in the sectors of agriculture and forestry, manufacturing, construction, transport, mining, and utilities like electricity, gas and water, and other services. This is according to...
PACES joins in celebration of Jugend Eine Welt’s 25th anniversary
Jugend Eine Welt celebrated its 25th anniversary on 24 June 2022 in the premises of the Tschauner Bühne in Vienna's Ottakring with 250 guests, including top officials from PACES. The 25th anniversary celebration was a three in one event, consisting of: a meet up among...
PACES and Philippine Embassy commemorate planting of Catalpa tree in the Vienna Rathaus park
For the fourth year in a row, PACES together with the Philippine Embassy in Vienna made a floral offering by the twin Catalpa trees (Trompetenbaum) located on the east side of the Rathaus (City Hall) park. These two trees were planted by the city of Vienna in June...
Address of UNCAV Secretary General to Filipinos in Austria
PACES is pleased to publish excerpts of a speech that the Secretary General of the United Nations Correspondents Association in Vienna (UNCAV), Mr. Hermann Kroiher, addressed to members of the Philippine Community on 10 June 2022. Mr. Kroiher delivered this address at...
PACES marks 6th Anniversary with Thanksgiving Mass
The Philippine-Austrian Cultural and Educational Society (PACES) celebrated it's 6th year Anniversary on 16 May with a Thanksgiving Mass held at the St. Augustin Church in Vienna's first district. This coincided with the Sunday Loretto High Mass at St.Augustine Church...
STEMS70 Scholars Pass Philippine Licensure Examination
Congratulations to Koleen L. Bacud and Cathrine M. Madlangbayan for passing the Civil Engineering Licensure Exam (Board Exam) given in May 2022 by the Philippine Professional Regulation Commission. The two new Civil Engineers, who passed the board exam on their first...
Properly train the youth of today
The Philippines can really reap its demographic dividends if we train our youth properly now. This was the message of Philippine Consul General and Charge d'Áffaires Frank Olea during his introductory remarks at the virtual lecture of Dr. Baby Jane Punongbayan on the...
Virtual Presentation: Can the Philippines progress amidst constant threats of earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and volcanos?
And the consensus answer? A resounding yes… but with many ifs. But let’s start at the beginning. Dr. Baby Jane Punongbayan’s lecture, A Song of Death and Hope: Can the Philippines progress amidst constant threats of earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and volcanos?, was...
