The AUN/SEED-Net Open House was initiated in 2007 to promote the Graduate Scholarship Programs as well as the other Project's activities to prospective scholars and to enable alumni from different fields to work together and share experiences with future generation of scholars. The first Open House was held by faculty staff and alumni at National University of Laos on 27 November 2007, with around 100 prospective candidates attended. From the success of the first Open House, the Secretariat would encourage this activity to be organized at all Member Institutions, if possible, in the next phase.
Coordinator Meetings
In 2007 the AUN/SEED-Net Coordinator Meeting was initiated to be a forum where persons in charge of AUN/SEED-Net program coordination at all Member Institutions assemble and discuss issues in the project implementation. The objectives of the meeting are listed below:
• To discuss and agree on the detailed activity and operation plan for the interdisciplinary field activities;
• To further hear the needs and expectations of the Member Institutions, especially those from CLMV countries, in order to design well-focused activities that meet their needs in the 2nd Phase of AUN/SEED-Net Project;
• To discuss on possible alumni activities to be organized by Member Institutions & alumni and designate a contact person for alumni activities at each Member Institution;
• To discuss and agree on the objectives and direction of decentralization of Secretariat Functions.
JICA National Staff Meetings
The National Staff Meeting has been arranged annually since 2006 by the AUN/SEED-Net Secretariat. This meeting provides a chance for JICA national staff in each member country to meet each other and the staff of AUN/SEED-Net once a year, with following purposes:
• To deepen national staff's understanding of the project;
• To share information and discuss issues on current logistic matter for the project (e.g. procedure for training program, arrangement for study team's visit);
• To discuss further collaboration between JICA offices and AUN/SEED-Net Secretariat, and to provide recommendation on future activities of AUN/SEED-Net.
Please click to see list of participants and minutes of meetings: 2006 | 2007
Workshop on Disaster
Mitigation and Management in ASEAN Countries
3-4 August 2005 at Phuket, Thailand
AUN/SEED-Net arranged
the Workshop on Disaster Mitigation and Management in ASEAN Countries
on August 3-4, 2005, at Pearl Village Hotel, Phuket, Thailand. The
Workshop was joined by 29 experts in ASEAN countries and Japan to
share information and experiences on natural disasters especially
Tsunami and earthquake and to discuss their roles in terms of research
and human resource development.
The participants spent two days on discussions and field visits to
Tsunami-affected areas in Phuket and Phang Nga provinces. The representatives
from Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan also presented
country reports on main natural disasters significantly affected their
countries.
At the end of the event, the participants agreed to collaborate on
educating more experts in disaster mitigation and management field.
Some of the projects proposed are the plan of School on the Move to
provide research students with a chance to explore and examine the
actual sites of disasters, the launch of distance learning course
on disaster engineering and management by Tokyo Institute of Technology
(TIT) via satellite link, the collaborative research activities between
Member Institutions and Japanese professors such as the study of geohazards,
Tsunami modeling and prediction, and the development of human resource
in Tsunami warning system.
Organized as a contribution in response to the Tsunami disaster on
December 26 last year, this Workshop was the first step for Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to comprehensively contribute
in human resource development in engineering fields to Tsunami-affected
countries.
