Cooperation opportunities & ASEA-UNINET Project Call 20-21
If you are interested in cooperation activities with the following partner universities or if you would like to submit a project within the ASEA-Uninet network, please contact Prof. Dietmar Haltrich or the Head of BOKU-International Relations, Dr. Margarita Calderón-Peter.
Cooperation opportunities with BOKU partner universities in Vietnam and Malaysia:
Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST):
- food science and biotechnology
- plastic and e-waste management
- Life Cycle Assessment and regional LC Inventories / circular economy
- smart cities and energy efficiency
- disaster and risk management
Hanoi University of Sciences (HUS-VNU):
- analytical chemistry
- waste management
- modelling in meteorology (meteoblue model)
- food technology / food safety
- soil sciences: pollution/regeneration
- organic agriculture: transition, certification, value addition
- development: local sustainability pathways
- zoology: wild animal nutrition, micro plastics
- greening the city (future vision of Hanoi)
Concrete activities to be planned with both universities (HUST & HUS-VNU) in Vietnam include:
- teaching staff exchanges (ERASMUS+ International Mobility Application and ASEA Uninet funding)
- joint workshops / seminars
- co-supervision of Master / Doctoral theses
- student exchanges
- joint projects and curricula development
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
It is planned to discuss options for staff and student exchanges or summer schools, funded e.g. by ASEA-Uninet, ERASMUS+ and SEARCA (South East Asia Research Center for Agriculture), in case BOKU applies for an associate membership to this network. Academic areas:
- Biotechnology
- Sustainability Learning and Research
- Wood technology, forestry and sustainable natural resources management
- Park design and landscape planning
- Organic farming
- Biotechnology
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM):
These topics will be implemented via staff and student exchanges (e.g. for internships, master thesis research and cotutelle-doctoral studies) and other joint projects:
- Animal and plant breeding
- Smart farming
- Nanobiotechnology
- Polymer composites and nanocellulose
- Microalgae and fish breeding
- Regional climate modelling
- Impact of environmental changes on fish populations
- Plastic waste management
- Regional inventories for life Cycle assessment
- Climate change and urban planning
- Material Sciences, Biorefinery and Bioinformatics
- Wildlife Management
- Systems biology
ASEA-Uninet Project Call 2020-21
New deadline for project submission: 30 September 2020
ASEA-UNINET aims at providing the possibility for researchers to better plan their projects conducted within the ASEA-UNINET (teaching mobilities, cooperation projects etc.). ASEA-Uninet coordinator at BOKU: Prof. Dietmar Haltrich