The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) of Thailand will send twenty-four of its staff to enroll in Master and Doctoral programs offered by the Asian Institute of Technology over the next four years, to support its plans for developing “Smart Network” energy services.

The weekly trip to the market has now become more sustainable, courtesy of an initiative of the Asian Institute of Technology Campus Sustainability Club (AITCSC). Moving beyond car-pooling that students and residents of AIT often practice when they travel from the Institute campus, the Club went a step ahead. They engaged a Songthaew, an indigenous mode of transportation, for the weekly grocery visit to the nearby Talad Thai market, which is one of the biggest markets of fresh farm produce in the region.

Studies suggest that greater access to electricity leads to increased people’s welfare, though empirical evidence is still limited. Narrating the relationship between electricity access and people’s welfare was Dr. Govinda R. Timilsina, AIT alumnus and Senior Research Economist, World Bank, at a talk on “Electricity Access in Developing World” delivered at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 9 February 2016.

Rector of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University – Hyderabad (JNTUH), India, Prof. T. Kishan Kumar Reddy, visited the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 2 February 2016 to discuss the Unified Bachelor-Master program currently offered by the two institutes. Leading a delegation of four JNTUH officials and two representatives of the Social Awareness, Health and Education (SHE) Foundation, Prof. Reddy also inquired about other collaborative programs offered by the Institute.

Thailand state enterprise Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (I-EA-T) has entered into a multi-facetted three-year partnership with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), signing a memorandum of understanding on cooperation for the authority’s new Excellence Center.

Pöyry, a leading global consulting and engineering firm focusing on energy, forest industry, infrastructure and environment, wants to enhance its engagement with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). It seeks a greater level of association with AIT experts, and will consider engaging highly qualified students as interns and for longer work placements.

Twenty-nine participants hailing from 17 countries participated in the Second “UN Winter School on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in Asia and the Pacific,” which concluded at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on 29 December 2015.

With burgeoning food demand and increasing population, sustainability, affordability and availability are the keywords in the food sector. Ensuring these is the need of the hour, particularly in the field of aquaculture. This was theme that set the tone for two workshops organized by the Aquaculture and Aquatic Resources Management (AARM) field of study at AIT’s School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD).

College of Agriculture (CoA), Maharashtra, India has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) for the launch of a Unified Bachelor-Master program. The MoA was signed by representatives of CoA and AIT on 27 January 2016.

Against the backdrop of the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the United Nations, and the signing of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change under the aegis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Regional Resource Centre of Asia and the Pacific (RR.CAP) at AIT organized a two-day “International Forum on Sustainable Future in Asia.” Co-hosted by AIT, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) Japan, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IRSSS) of the University of Tokyo Japan, and Alliance for Global Sustainability Asia, the conference was attended by 160 participants.