HoChiMinh City University of Natural Resources and Environment (H C M UNR E) Nguyen Thi Van Ha ntvha@hcmunre.edu.vn 10/9/2014 1
INTRODUCTION HCMUNRE is a public university Directly under Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Established by the Prime Minister in -TTg dated 19 August 2011 but has more than 35 year of experienced College Has more than 8,500 students at three levels: Bachelor, College and working students; Graduate (2016); international Graduate Program on 2015. Has more than 300 lecturers HCMUNRE 10/9/2014 2
Head quarter and branch Head quarter 236 B Le Van Sy St., Ward 1, Tan Binh Dist., HCMC (5,400 m2) Branch Tam Phuoc Ward, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province (54,888 m2) 10/9/2014 3
1. Inter-disciplines and has many related faculties 10/9/2014 4
2. Direct link to Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, and therefore, strongly collaboration with organization at central level and related Ministries MONRE Others - General Department of Land Administration - Vietnam Environmental Administration - Department of Survey and Map - Department of Information Technology, etc - Ministry of Investment and Planning - Ministry of Industrial and Trading - Ministry of Science and Technology - - Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development 10/9/2014 5
3. Has strongly demand on supplying the human resources who need capacity building on LUCs models for undergraduate, graduate students and especially working students (in DONREs). Those people will work for DONRE at Provincial and District levels. 10/9/2014 6
4. Has Training and Research Facilities and skill lecturers Informatics 04 Computer Labs Geodesy & Mapping More than 200 practising equipment, i.e. GPS, Trimble 5700, GPS SR20, electronic total stations, electronic theodolites, optical theodolites, electronic levels, etc Meteo Hydrology Geology 9 reasons to be nominated 01 Mineralogy & Petrography Lab 01 Geo- Technique Lab 10/9/2014 7
5. Has strongly support from the local Provincial authorities and many collaboration projects: ON GOING PROJECTS Decision support system on land and water resources management response to climate change impacts (2013-2015). Master plan for climate change mitigation and response measurement in some provinces Pushing up Renewable energy investment projects in Vietnam focus on bio-energy; Master plan on biomass energy for provincial level Impacts of water regulation regime on biodiversity of U Minh Thuong peat forest. Impacts of embankments on pesticide residues in soil and water environment in the flooding rice cultivation areas. 10/9/2014 8
Local cooperation partners Provincial Committee in An Giang, Ninh Thuan, Ba Ria Vung Tau, Dong Nai, Binh Duong, Bac Lieu, Kien Giang, Departments of Natural Resources and Environment, Departments of Science and Technology, Department of Agricultural and Rural Development, Departments of Commercial and Industry in almost provinces in the South of Vietnam Institute of Natural Resources and Environment Institute of Sea in HCMC, Institute of Ocean in Nha Trang Many Universities/Institutes on Environment, Natural Science, Engineering, Energy, Agriculture, Economic, Society and Management, etc. 10/9/2014 9
6. International cooperation partners 2008: CAI Asia Partnership 2009: Kunming University of Science & Technology, China. 2011: Dankook University, Korea; Swedish Energy Agency, Sweden 2012: Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; RTI International, USA 2013: Montclair State University, USA; Berkeley Air Group, USA 2014: Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan; Biomass Research Asia Co., Ltd, Japan; Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology, University of Tokyo, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand. University in Finland 10/9/2014 10
6. International cooperation partners 2008: CAI Asia Partnership 2009: Kunming University of Science & Technology, China. 2011: Dankook University, Korea; Swedish Energy Agency, Sweden 2012: Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; RTI International, USA 2013: Montclair State University, USA; Berkeley Air Group, USA 2014: Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan; Biomass Research Asia Co., Ltd, Japan; Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology, University of Tokyo, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand. 10/9/2014 11
7. Organize the international Conferences and workshops/create the Forum for everyone Oct. 2012: National GIS Application Workshop Dec. 2012: The First HCMUNRE international Conference on Science and Technology 10/9/2014 1 st international conference 12
Conferences and workshops (cont.) Feb-Jun. 2013: State University, USA; 1 workshop with all local clients and partners. Oct. 2014: The Second HCMUNRE S&T international Conference on Natural Resources, Environment and Energy toward sustainable development, in HCMC. 10/9/2014 13
8. Good location for both trainees and trainers, can link directly with Hanoi UNR E and Southern Universities - <10 minutes from the international airport - 10 minutes to the central of City - Interesting places to applied L U Cs in urban planning and low land area planning in Mekong Delta Provinces. 10/9/2014 14
Last but not least It has the young staff, eager to learn new knowledge, create and sustain the education and training It has the strongly interest and supports from the University Leaders and MONRE The LUCs model will benefit and stimulate their education program Thank You 15