For sustainable industrial development, each Member Institution needs to produce
graduates with master's and doctoral degrees of international standard in the engineering field.
To realize the above missions, a consortium of graduate schools of engineering has been established to
produce the human resources needed for Member Institutions by utilizing leading human resources from
Member Institutions and Japanese Supporting Universities. Nine engineering
fields have been identified, and one Member Institution has been assigned to host one field, which will act as the “regional hub”
of the field. The Host Institution is responsible for training young graduates and teaching staff from other Member Institutions to
acquire master's degrees, and doctoral degrees in a Sandwich Program with Japanese Supporting Universities.
The major contribution of Japanese Supporting Universities is to assist Host Institutions in “joint thesis research supervision” of AUN/SEED-Net students to upgrade
the quality of thesis research, which will be conducted through the Collaborative Research Program, and to assist Member Institutions in ASEAN in capacity enhancement.
AUN/SEED-Net's core programs are to provide scholarships under Master's Degree Program, Doctoral Degree
Sandwich Program, Doctoral Degree Program in Japan and Doctoral Degree Program in Singapore. The key support program is the
Collaborative Research Program under which AUN/SEED-Net students' research is jointly supervised. Other support programs such
as the Dispatch Programs, the Short-term Study Program and the Short-term Training/Research Programs are devised to allow visits
of Japanese professors to Member Institutions and visits of students or alumni to Japan and other ASEAN countries, in order to
strengthen academic and research capabilities. On the other hand, the Regional Conference Program will facilitate gathering of all
experts concerned to discuss research results and systematize collaborative research activities among Member Institutions. The
relationships of core and support programs are depicted below. |
