ProSPER.Net Meetings 2017
The ProSPER.Net meetings held on 5-6 July in Bangkok, Thailand, were not only fruitful in their outcome, but a great opportunity for members to meet and mingle. Apart from joining the 17th Board Meeting and the 11th General Assembly, ProSPER.Net members had the opportunity to attend the 4th Annual Asia Research Intelligence Conference, where ProSPER.Net delivered a session on ‘International Collaboration: Community-based Research in the Context of the SDGs’.
ProSPER.Net took the opportunity to congratulate Chulalongkorn University for their centennial anniversary and expressed gratitude to Elsevier for providing the platform of the conference to showcase the contributions and aspirations of ProSPER.Net towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. The 5th ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme “Building transformational leadership towards the Sustainable Development Goals” was also held on 29 June - 5 July 2017, at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
During the Board Meeting ProSPER.Net members voted on new membership. The ProSPER.Net Secretariat is glad to announce three new members to the network, bringing the total up to 40 members.
Mahidol University (Thailand)
Mahidol University has the vision to be a world class university and to excel in health, sciences, arts, and innovation with integrity for the betterment of Thai society and the benefit of mankind. In terms of sustainability practice and engagement, a number of courses related to environment and sustainability have been offered at Mahidol University as main stream, compulsory and elective. ‘A healthy and happy workplace’ is the objective for many ongoing implementation schemes under its Eco-campus development plan. In addition, numerous activities and events for environment and sustainability have been organized and hosted by Mahidol University among the students and staff, and in collaboration with other universities and institutions. Read more on ProSPER.Net’s new member here.
Griffith University (Australia)
Griffith University introduced Australia’s first degrees in Environmental Science. The Schools of Environment and Engineering have offered future-oriented environmental education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Ranked in the top three per cent of universities worldwide, Griffith’s degrees are specifically designed to prepare students for the future, and are developed in consultation with industry, based on cutting-edge research, and taught by Australia’s most awarded teachers. Griffith University remains strongly committed to sustainability through their programmes, their international and national collaborations through research and industry projects. Read more on how the university’s link with sustainability here.
University of Western Sydney (Australia)
The University of Western Sydney is pursuing a sustainability agenda by integrating sustainability into postgraduate courses, curricula and programmes. This is evident in the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) focus in post graduate programs across six schools covering business, education, engineering, law, and science and health, social science and psychology. The programmes with this ESD focus include different Master degrees, for example among others the Master of Business Administration, the Master/Grad Dip/Grad Cert Social Ecology and the Master of Laws (International Governance). Read more on the institution’s sustainability background on ProSPER.Net.
