RCE Southern Vietnam-2012

Submitted by RCEsouthernvietnam on Thu, 2012-09-20 00:00
1. Leadership, Vision and Objectives
1. Vision of your RCE: 
The RCE Southern Vietnam is a formal network where education is effectively and efficiently used as a tool to transform the Southern region to a sustainability-oriented community.
2. Social Network
3. Core partners: 
1. Vietnam Open University
2. Institute for educational research
3. Southern Institute of Sustainable Development
4. Institute for Environment and Resource.
4. Cooperation and communication : 
RCE Southern Vietnam planned to organize semiannual meeting for all partners on network. The meeting focuses on indicating activities for RCE on the next 6 months. At the moment, the network has still not been strong yet. Besides the meeting, RCE Southern Vietnam keep in contact with partners via email and phone to disccuss on interest issue.
5. Facilitating development
Connections / Partnership with
UN institutions
yes/no: 
No
Other international organizations
yes/no: 
No
Other RCEs
yes/no: 
No
International experts
yes/no: 
No
Expert organizations at national, regional and global levels
yes/no: 
No
3. Participation
7. Participation of actors : 
Currently, RCE Southern Vietnam has not taken any project togerther among partners yet.
4. Education & Learning
9. Educational activities : 
The first step on transfering sustanable concept has been taken by starting with integrating the concept of sustainable development into the curriculum for undergraduate students at International University. After trial teaching and learning at IU and getting the lesson learnt, RCE Southern Vietnam will work with partners to further transfering of this concept for other stakeholders like local people and local community. Therefore, educational activities will be taken broadly.
Connections / Partnership with
b. Training for different sectors of the society
yes/no: 
No
c. Public awareness
yes/no: 
No
d. Reorientation of existing education
yes/no: 
Yes
5. Research Integration
13. Research & Development (R&D): 
In regards to R&D component, RCE Southern Vietnam does work with ProsperNet on Integrating Sustainability into existing Engineering and Built Environment Curriculum.
14. Research partners : 
Department of Industrial and System Engineering
Department of Food Technology - School of Biotechnology.
Tagging
Continent: 
Asia-Pacific
Country: 
Vietnam
Region: 
Asia-Pacific
Type: 
Project Reports