SEMINAR ON COASTAL AND MARINE GEOLOGY 2022 DEEP SEABED MINING: PERSPECTIVE FROM A DEVELOPING NATION
Project Date: 09.03.2022
Time: 8.00 a.m. – 5.00 p.m.
Venue: Online Workshop
Audience: Undergraduate students from various higher learning institution, stakeholders (governmental agencies and private sector)
Summary
The deep seabed mining seminar was held on 09.03.2022 from 8.00 am to 5.00 pm. This event was an event organized by the University Malaysia of Terengganu (UMT), 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 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 focusing on the enhancing participation of developing nations in regulating deep seabed mining. This event was opened by Mr Abdul Rasid Jaapar (President of IGM) and later was officiated by Dato’ Seri Mohd Ajib Anuar (President of Malaysian Chamber of Mines).
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 Dato’ Zakaria Mohamad| Chairman (Board of Geologist Malaysia).
Brochure Seminar Deep Seabed Mining Perspectives From The Developing Nation (
This project has been funded by Erasmus+ CBHE programme of the European Union.
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This project No. 610327-EPP-1-2019-1-DE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP has been funded by Erasmus+ CBHE programme of the European Union.
Opening ceremony of the Graduate School Program
On the morning of January 22, 2022, at Hall A, Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment held the Opening Ceremony of Graduate School program of the 4th term in 2021. The ceremony was held in face-to-face and online format.
Attending the ceremony on the side of the guests were the presence of Assoc. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Tuan – Former Rector of Ho Chi Minh City University of Natural Resources and Environment; Dr. Hoang Huu Phe – Vinaconex R&D Company.
On the side of the University, there was the presence of Assoc. Dr. Huynh Quyen – Rector; together with the teachers who are leaders of the faculties and departments, the lecturers are teaching master’s degrees of the University; especially the presence of graduate students.
During this Opening Ceremony, Dr. Le Thi Kim Thoa has provided information about the MARE project and the contribution of the e-learning system for further development of new courses for post graduate. Furthermore, Dr. Thoa also highlighted the possibility and highly recommended students to invlove in the summer and winter school.
Industry Engagement Dialogue was conducted on 18th November 2021. It is an event organized by
Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Corporate Communication Department together with International, Industrial
and Institutional Partnership Unit. The main objective of the event to discuss from industry perspective
on potential workforce to succeed in the era of the 4th Industry Revolution.
The dialogue brings the expert from various industry that actively exposed in the IR 4.0 culture. The
panel involve in the dialogue were Dr. Peter Blomeyer (German Ambassor to Malaysia), Mr. Daniel
Bernbeck (CEO of Malaysia-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry), Prof. Ir. Dr. Azmi Hassan
(Managing Director of German-Malaysian Institute), Dr. James J. Govindasamy (General Manager of
CIBA Vision and Mr. Christoph Muller (Senior VP Operation at B.Braun Asia Pasific).
The panels have given the opinion with regards the topics based on their experiences and
implementation at their company. The transition from the conventional methods to advance
technologies slightly affected the performance of the employees. The employees need to attend
reskilling and upskilling training to improve their knowledge in that area. The changes good for future
development of country especially Malaysia due to most of the investor keen to use the latest and
update technologies such as argumented reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Clouds, Cyber Security,
etc.
The dialogue has been attended by postgraduate students and staff of UniKL. The attendees were
exposed on several investigation study made by CIBA Vision and B.Braun on successful of
implementation new style of working environment that been implemented at their company.
ATTENDEES: Approx. 100 pax.
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On the 8th of November 2021, Mrs. Aimi Osman (Project Manager of Alunan Coral Project) was invited to a sharing session for Marine Resources Management (MMS3623) class, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. Throughout the session, Mrs. Aimi shared about the role of Alunan Resort in conserving coral in Perhentian Island waters, Terengganu. Alunan Resort was appointed as one of the Malaysian Department of Fisheries (DOF) strategic partner in resource management, focusing on the restoration of damaged reef around Pulau Perhentian and conducting the marine awareness program with the public. Besides that, Alunan Resort also actively collaborate with the local universities on the coral conservation program, planting variety of corals in their nursery as well as on energy recycling to make full use of any energy within the resort compound. Mrs. Aimi also stated that until July 2021, Alunan Coral Project has successfully built a large area of coral nursery, planted 1,555 corals, and convinced the public to adopt 454 corals within the Pulau Perhentian waters. This project also has initiated the corals adoption program via Lazada, where anyone can adopt corals and participate in coral conservation just in one click. Everyone is welcome to visit their coral nursery and participate in the conservation program as well. Let’s conserve our nature by adopting corals (bit.ly/AlunanAdoptCoral) and everyone is welcome to follow them via bit.ly/AlunanCoralProject or bit.ly/AlunanCoralProjectIG.
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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”.
