HCM City Open University on Monday kicks off the Summer School & Field-trip 2019 which ends on March 31. (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Foreign and Vietnameselecturers and postgraduates will conduct research about landslides, riverpollution, climate-change adaptation, transnational marriages and Khmermigration as part of the Summer School & Field Trip 2019 from March 18-31in the Mekong Delta.
Seven field sites in Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho,Binh Duong, Tra Vinh, Dong Thap and Soc Trang will offer practice intrans-disciplinary approaches that could help participants’ research andteaching careers.
The foreign and Vietnamese lecturers andpostgraduates are from universities in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany,Thailand, and Vietnam.
It is addressing new challenges in a rapidlychanging world through dynamic knowledge networks of multi-lateral andtrans-disciplinary studies (KNOTS).
KNOTS is funded by European Union’sErasmus programme, which supports activities in the fields of education,training, youth and sport.
Social inequality, climate change and migrationare topics that will be addressed with collaboration between the highereducation sector and non-academic actors.
The negative changes in the Mekong Delta regionhave accelerated the migration process over the past decades.
More and more residents have migrated toindustrial centres such as HCM City and Binh Duong province to live and work.This has led to social inequality and environmental problems.
Participants in the summer camp will addressspecific problems and solutions related to environment, inequality, andmigration and share their findings and stories from the field sites.
Anja Shu Wen Tran of the University of Bonn inGermany said that she expects to learn more societal inequality after thefield trips.
Nguyen Minh Ha, Vice Rector of HCM CityOpen University, a consortium member of KNOTS, said the Summer School andFieldtrip 2019 will build a stronger network of trans-disciplinary studies.
Petra Dannecker of University of Vienna said:“The project aims to develop transdisciplinary research and teaching whichcan enrich existing scientific programmes of teaching and research on theseissues in the participating Higher Education Institutes and by exploiting,pooling and complementing existing expertise with regard to these highlyrelevant themes.”-VNS/VNA
Seven field sites in Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho,Binh Duong, Tra Vinh, Dong Thap and Soc Trang will offer practice intrans-disciplinary approaches that could help participants’ research andteaching careers.
The foreign and Vietnamese lecturers andpostgraduates are from universities in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany,Thailand, and Vietnam.
It is addressing new challenges in a rapidlychanging world through dynamic knowledge networks of multi-lateral andtrans-disciplinary studies (KNOTS).
KNOTS is funded by European Union’sErasmus programme, which supports activities in the fields of education,training, youth and sport.
Social inequality, climate change and migrationare topics that will be addressed with collaboration between the highereducation sector and non-academic actors.
The negative changes in the Mekong Delta regionhave accelerated the migration process over the past decades.
More and more residents have migrated toindustrial centres such as HCM City and Binh Duong province to live and work.This has led to social inequality and environmental problems.
Participants in the summer camp will addressspecific problems and solutions related to environment, inequality, andmigration and share their findings and stories from the field sites.
Anja Shu Wen Tran of the University of Bonn inGermany said that she expects to learn more societal inequality after thefield trips.
Nguyen Minh Ha, Vice Rector of HCM CityOpen University, a consortium member of KNOTS, said the Summer School andFieldtrip 2019 will build a stronger network of trans-disciplinary studies.
Petra Dannecker of University of Vienna said:“The project aims to develop transdisciplinary research and teaching whichcan enrich existing scientific programmes of teaching and research on theseissues in the participating Higher Education Institutes and by exploiting,pooling and complementing existing expertise with regard to these highlyrelevant themes.”-VNS/VNA
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