On the morning of October 18, 2021, Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment solemnly held the Opening Ceremony of the school year 2021-2022. This is the most SPECIAL Opening Ceremony in the 45-year history of Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment when the first time the ceremony was held online on the Zoom platform and livestreamed on the HCMUNRE fanpage.
Attending the ceremony were the presence of Mr. Giang Duc Chung – Deputy Director of the Department of Organization and Personnel – MONRE; representatives of a number of deaprtments under the Ministry; Representatives of universities in Ho Chi Minh city and representatives of businesses and companies are sponsorships for students of the University;
The program has received the attention of previous school leaders: Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Dinh Tuan – Former Principal of the School; GS. Dr. Phan Dinh Tuan – Former Principal of the School.
On the side of the University, there was the presence of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vu Xuan Cuong – Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman of the School Council; Assoc.Prof.Dr. Huynh Quyen- Rector of the School; together with representatives of the leaders of faculties, departments, institutes and centers throughout the university and especially the presence of more than 1000 new students attending via zoom and the university’s fanpage.
In this ceremony, Dr. Le Thi Kim Thoa, MARE project manager has provided information about the MARE project and the online courses that have been built and are being implemented on the e-learning system. She also highlighted the 8 scholarships from the MARE project for students with gained good academic results. Scholarship winners will be able to attend a 2-week training session in Malaysia or Italy.
The most important goal of the University is to continue to improve university administration, improve training quality and international integration with the core value of “Creativity – Quality – Efficiency”.
3rd National Workshop on Coastal and Marine Geology 2021 (30th Aug 2021)
Time: 8.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m.
Venue: Online Workshop
Audience: UTP Students and Malaysian Public
Summary
The 3rd National Marine Geology and Coastal Workshop was held on 30th August 2021. This event was an annual event for Coastal and Marine Geology Working Group – Institute of Geology Malaysia (IGM) with collaboration with Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM) and managed by Academy GEX as the event organizer. This event was initially proposed by Mr Abdullah Sulaiman as the chairman of the working group committee. This year, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) has been selected to become the host of this event with support from the UTP – MARE ERASMUS team lead by Professor Ir Dr Shaharin Anwar B Sulaiman.
This event has become the annual platform for various stakeholders to share and discuss their finding related to the marine and coastal area development. The event theme for this year was “Towards sustainable coastal and Marine management”. This event was officiated by Mr Nizam Hassan (President of GSM) and later was continue with the 3 separate session which focusing on 3 different subtopic which are session 1 – coastal & marine development from geological perspective; session 2 – coastal issues, protection, and adaption; session 3 – coastal resources & sustainable management. Panel discussion towards the closing session have bring new ideas and perspective on the current and unsolved issues that lingers around the community revolving the importance of the sustainability development of the coastal area.
Session speakers were comprised of various professional from academics, industry, and the policy maker. The speakers for this year including researchers from academic and research institute, government officer and industry players. Participant were comprise of representative from the governmental agencies, undergraduates and postgraduates students from higher learning institution, private companies and non-governmental organization. The closing remarks were given later by Mr Abd Rasid Japar (President of IGM). This one-day webinar successfully gathers 171 participants not including the moderator and also the speakers.
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Publication of Event 3rd National Workshop 2021 in Warta Geologi
On 26th August 2021, UMT invited Dr. Hong Chern Wern, Executive Manager of Water Watch Penang, to share his experience about river system conservation with the student who enrolled MMS3003 Environment – Issue and Global Perspective via WebEX. The title of his presentation was River and Water Awareness Education Programme, focusing on how education can help increase awareness to conserve the Malaysia river system. Dr. Hong also shares several methods used by researchers to determine water quality. One of the interesting discussions between the audience and Dr. Hong is the role of an aquatic insect as the water quality indicator. At the end of the talk, Dr. Hong showed Malaysian river pollution status, categorised into different states based on the Water Quality Index by the Department of Environment, Malaysia. After the talks, a round table discussion between the audience and Dr. Hong focuses on how we as educators and students can help increase awareness to help conserve our freshwater resources. For more information about Water Watch Penang, please visit https://www.waterwatchpenang.org/.
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The 2nd International Conference on Marine and Advanced Technologies was conducted on 24th August
2021. It is annual event organized by Universiti Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Institute of Marine Engineering
Technology. It is home grown conference with the ideas to involve with the participation from local and
international researchers and inventors.
MARE was requested to participate in the conference with the special theme unfortunately the invitation
not capture the intention of others team members.
The conference was collaborating with the academia and stakeholder. It is the platform to change and
update the latest technologies involve in engineering and operations especially in maritime sector. More
then 75 papers have been presented during the event.
Organizer give an opportunity for MARE to advertise and promote the project during the parallel
session. The information has circulated for their info and further discussion.
The event was made successful through collaboration between the Research and Innovation Section,
Dean’s Office, Marketing Unit (MeSRA)
ATTENDEES: Approx. 100 pax.
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