Activities with ASEAN's dialogue partners
ASEAN - Japan

The AUN Southeast Asia Engineering Education Development Network (AUN/SEED-Net) was e stablished as an autonomous sub-network of the AUN. The AUN/SEED-Net is composed of 19 leading Member Institutions from 10 ASEAN Countries and 11 Japanese Supporting Universities . The Network is mainly supported by the Japanese Government through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the initial period of 5 years (2003 -2008) and was partially supported by the ASEAN Foundation.

Aims:

- To promote human resources development in engineering in ASEAN countries;

- To activate internationally competitive personnel in leading engineering educational institutions in the ASEAN region for advancing academic cooperation on an equal footing and for providing educational and technical assistance to less advanced engineering institutions;

- To promote collaboration and solidarity between academics and professionals in the region through the cross-border and region-wise development of engineering education and research capabilities.

Activities:

The main activities of the AUN /SEED-Net are Graduate Programme Supports and Collaborative Research Supports. As of July 2005, the Network has awarded 205 scholarships for Master's Degree Programme , 30 scholarships for Ph.D. Sandwich Programme , and 25 scholarships for Ph.D. Programme in Japan . In addition , the Network has granted support for 60 Collaborative Research Projects in which 68 master's students and 18 doctoral students in the sandwich program are involved.

AUN /SEED-Net also grants other research supporting activities namely Thesis Research Support , Special Equipment Support , Japanese Professors Dispatch Programme , Short-term Study Programme in Japan , Short-term Visit Programme to Japan and to Member Countries. Other activities of the Network include Steering Committee Meetings in which the steering committee members meet twice a year , Field-wise Seminars in which experts in respective engineering fields discuss and systemize collaborative research activities , Promotional Trips to recruit outstanding students from member countries to Graduate Programmes, and Monitoring Schemes to assure the high quality outcome of the Network.

In addition , the Network arranged the Workshop on Disaster Mitigation and Management in ASEAN Countries in Phuket , Thailand on 3-4 August 2005, as a sustainable countermeasure of disaster. The Workshop has established the regional collaboration in research and human resource development on disaster management.

Forty-eight AUN/SEED-Net graduates have already returned to contribute to their Sending Institutions and/or countries. Eight of them pursue the Ph.D. level under AUN /SEED-Net Ph.D. Sandwich Programme and Ph.D. Programme in Japan .

AUN /SEED-Net has received positive responses from ASEAN countries for human resource development in the engineering fields. Students and staff of Member Institutions with different backgrounds have a chance to discuss their academic points of view , share knowledge and research experiences , and know each other from the heart. Through these AUN /SEED-Net activities , the fruitful and sustainable seeds are growing rapidly in ASEAN countries and Japan in both academic and human networks.

Although the Project is supported by JICA for the initial period of 5 years (2003 -2008), all of the Network members are working hard to sustain the Project after the period. Recognizing that the sustainability of the network is vital to the sustainability of international graduate programmes at Host Institutions, c onsiderable efforts have been made towards the Project's sustainability.

you can view the AUN/SEED-Net’s homepage at: http://www.seed-net.org and email: seednet@eng.chula.ac.th

AUN/SEED-Net Graduate Scholarship Programs for Japanese
fiscal year 2008:
   1. Master's Degree Program (in ASEAN)
   2. Doctoral Degree Sandwich Program (in ASEAN with
        short-term study inJapan)
   3. Doctoral Degree Program in Singapore (direct program)
   4. Doctoral Degree Program in Japan

The first 3 programs are open for application until 15 Feb 2008.
But onlythe last program to Japan has the deadline on 28 Dec
2007. Link to detailsof the programs is http://www.seed-net.org/support_scholars.php



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