Sustainable Development at AIT

School of Engineering

and Technology

(SET)

School of Environment,

Resources and Development

(SERD)

AIT EXTENSION

School of Management

(SOM)

AIT CENTERSVietnam

Indonesia..............

ACADEMIC ORGANIZATION

SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT, RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT (SERD)

SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT, RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT (SERD)

Interdisciplinary Programs

Agricultural Systems and Engineering

Environmental Engineering and Management

Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Management

Food Engineering and Bioprocess Technology

Energy

Agribusiness Management

Cleaner Production

Modeling Tools in Environmental Resources

and Management

Integrated Tropical Coastal Zone Management

Integrated Watershed Development and

Management

Gender and Development Studies

Urban Environmental Management

Natural Resources Management

Regional and Rural Development Planning

Pulp and Paper Technology

Field of Studies

Development Studies, Energy and Environmental Management, Resource Management

Sustainable Development @ AIT

Environmental, economic, and cultural dimensions of sustainable development are integral elements of AIT programs

Grounded research and outreach at local, regional, national and international levels

Active links in more than 15 countries in the region

Challenges

How to better integrate sustainable development throughout the curricula, particularly into Management and Technology areas

Funding the programs

These two issues are closely linked

New Master program on Sustainable Development

2-year master program Minor program to integrate with other curricula

launch in Aug 2008 Targeting policy makers, planners and actors in

development Providing:

in-depth knowledge on philosophical and practical aspects of sustainable development

skills for analysis and formulation of sustainable development policies and programs.

Developed in partnership with Roskilde University (Denmark)

New Master program on Sustainable Development

Core courses:Sustainable Development Theories and

PracticesSustainable Development EconomicsSectoral Policies for Sustainable

DevelopmentGender and Development Analytical Methods for Sustainable

Development

New Master program in Disaster Preparedness,

Mitigation and MgtInterdisciplinary program designed to

accommodate students with a wide range of backgrounds

Two programs 2-year master program 1-year professional master program for

professionals with significant experienceLaunch Aug 2008Doctoral program will follow later

New Master program in Disaster Preparedness,

Mitigation and MgtPartners

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) ITC, Netherlands Int’l Center for Urban Safety Eng, U of Tokyo Coastal Resource Center, U of Rhode Island, USA University of Washington, USA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) UNOCHA, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI),

Kyoto University

Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Mgt

Curriculum Planning and Implementation for Emergency Mgt Mitigation of Earthquake Disasters Floods and Droughts Tsunami Science and Preparedness Climate Forecasting and Early Warning Systems Remote Sensing and GIS for Disaster Risk Mgt Community-Based Disaster Risk Mgt Coastal Resiliency and Natural Disaster

Preparedness Human Conflicts and Humanitarian Emergency Mgt Health and Ecological Risk Mgt

Wetland Alliance: Building local capacity for sustainable wetlands

managementbrings together strengths of four

institutions in: education training conservation development research

focusing on wetlands in and around the Mekong region

Focusing on … The importance of aquatic

resources Key element in poor people’s

livelihoods, but relatively little is known

Can help local agencies to better collect and interpret basic information on these resources

Find better ways of linking local data to national, regional and global databases

ICT4D ICT for Development (ICT4D)

Objective: The effective and appropriate use of ICT for

development Multidisciplinary:

Infrastructure: communications, open source software, databases

Applications: knowledge management, e-learning, e-gov, e-health, e-commerce, all ICT components of development projects

Capacity Building: information and knowledge sharing, education

Policy: government strategies, digital divide

ICT4D Infrastructure in Developing Countries

communications networks, open source software, GIS E.g. Digital Ubiquitous Mobile Broadband OLSR (DUMBO)

Development Applications e-government, disaster management, entrepreneurship

E.g. GIS for disasters, for bird flu tracking Capacity Building

knowledge sharing, e-learning, training E.g. technology transfer of commercializing freshwater aquaculture

in NE Thailand (Wetlands Alliance), API advanced seminar on international environmental studies (UNU and other AP partners)

Policy National government strategy on ICT

E.g. IT for rural planning in Thailand, poverty indicators for rural development in Cambodia

UNEP Tongji Institute of Environment for Sustainable Development

Partnership between UNEP and Tongji University (Shanghai, China)

AIT is a member of the supporting Asia-Pacific Regional University Consortium

Other members are NTU Singapore; Griffiths University, Australia; University of New South Wales, Australia; University of Wollongong, Australia; Yale University, USA; and UNU, Tokyo

International Master’s Program in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development

AIT delivers courses and hosts students of the programme

2008 ASEAN/AIT Roundtable on the MDGs

The UN/NGO Section is at the origin of an international initiative promoting the development of pedagogic tools and materials for the teaching and training of the 8 Millennium Development Goals.

Roundtable meeting planned at AIT in March 2008 Insert MDGs in academic training and teaching in

the ASEAN region’s institutions Involve the ASEAN institutions in the larger network

of academia and NGOs promoting and spreading MDG training/teaching materials, through Centres of Excellence on MDGs

2008 ASEAN/AIT Roundtable on the MDGs

Creation of an AIT/ASEAN Centre of Excellence on MDGs to promote, educate and train on MDG issues,

throughout the region, by developing pedagogic modules, educational materials, and tools for MDG training in academic institutions, civil society, and NGOs operating in the field, in close cooperation with similar experiments by other Centres of Excellence on MDGs operating elsewhere in the world with UN-NGO-IRENE