Mr. Sittichai Khowsurat agreed to support the amount of 500,000 Thai Baht towards the AIT Centre for Global Challenges.
President Eden Woon stated that the Centre for Global Challenges (CGC) serves as a forum for promoting comprehensive policy discourses on global challenges facing humanity, such as Climate Change, Energy-Food-Water Security, Infrastructure, Inequalities, Institutions and Governance, Technology-Public Policy interfaces, Socio-political polarization, and Human-Machine fusion.
The AIT Christian Fellowship (AITCF) community supports the amount of 50,000 Thai Baht towards the Organizational Quarantine (OQ) facility operations.
AIT is the first university in Thailand to have a quarantine facility that enabled the overseas students to quarantine for 14 days at AIT campus thereby, saving substantially on Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ). The AIT OQ facility had its first year anniversary on 13 September 2021.
Dr. Eden Woon expressed his thanks and appreciation to the AIT Christian Fellowship community for this very timely and meaningful donation.
By Nitipol Kiravanich
September 9th, 2021 — The 5th International Conference on Nation-Building (ICNB) 2021, held online for two consecutive days (from September 8th to September 9th) amidst the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the session ‘Enhancing International Cooperation for Long-term Crisis Recovery and Nation-Building’, AIT President Dr. Eden Woon along with prolific panelists from the government agencies, academics, and private sectors including the representative of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E. Don Pramudwinai; Vice Minister H.E. Dr. Vijavat Isarabhakdi; Prof.
By Nitipol Kiravanich
Elise del Rosario, distinguished AIT alumna who received her Masters’ Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) in 1980 imprinted her name as the first woman President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS), a 62-year-old organization of 54 national societies and around 30,000 individual members.
By Mae Thiwari
September 13, 2021 --- It has been one year since the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) welcomed its first group of students to the first universtiy Organizational Quarantine (OQ) facility in Thailand on its campus. Here is a look into how AIT OQ has made it possible for students from around the world to study in Thailand to achieve their goals amidst the pandemic.
By Mae Thiwari
September 8, 2021 -- The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), in association with the University of Exeter (UNEXE) in the United Kingdom, held the final technical workshop of a research project on “ENRICH: ENhancing ResIlienCe to future Hydro-meteorological extremes in the Mun river basin in Northeast of Thailand” on Wednesday, 8 September 2021. The project has assessed plausible future land use change and climate change scenarios in the Mun River basin and their combined impacts on future hydro-meteorological extremes.
By Dr. R. L. Verma
September 17, 2021 -- The Asian Institute of Technology’s Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RRC.AP) organized a virtual training workshop on “Capacity Development Program on Air Quality Management and Emission Reduction of PM2.5 for Asian Countries” from 13-17 September 2021. The workshop was attended by policymakers, air quality managers, technical staff working with pollution control agencies, and air quality professionals from various sectors to enhance their capacities for better management of air quality in Asian countries.
By Mae Thiwari
September 22, 2021 -- Young scientists from more than 30 academic and research institutions participated in the third AIT-BNU Virtual Workshop, presenting cutting-edge research on ‘Climate Change, Water Resources and Ecosystems: Challenges and Opportunities’. The workshop serves as a platform to review and present the advanced methodologies, current progress and challenges, future opportunities in water-ecosystems management under climate change.
By Mae Thiwari
Bangkok, Thailand --- Mastering Energy Supply for Isolated Areas (MESfIA) 2021 International Conference, hosted virtually by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) on August 31 – September 1, 2021, features exhibitions and presentations from 37 speakers in education, public and private sectors from Asia and Europe, drawing 220 participants from around the world.
Invitation to the Circular Economy Webinar Episode 1: Industrial Emission Monitoring
We are pleased to invite you to the Circular Economy Webinar Episode 1: Industrial Emission Monitoring jointly organized by the Embassy of Finland in Bangkok, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and Ministry of Industry (MoI), Thailand.