This course emphasised the considerable advances many countries have made in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Resilience since the adoption of the Sendai framework (2015-2030), but also emphasised the differential impact of disasters on low-income countries, geographically vulnerable countries and on women and children as well as various disadvantaged groups.
Agricultural production is under increasing pressure from global forces such as climate change, resource depletion, economic pressures and shifting population dynamics. This course explored the urgent need for sustainable and resilient agricultural systems through a transdisciplinary lens.
Simian malaria has become a significant public health concern in regions where humans and non-human primates coexist. This course has been designed to equip students with the skills, knowledge, and mindset to tackle this complex issue through a holistic and collaborative lens and a systems thinking approach.
We successfully conducted our third Co-creation Workshop from May 14 to 17, 2025. The four-day event brought together project team members and teaching staff from the five partner universities for a series of collaborative sessions hosted across three Thai universities; Thammasat University (TU), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), and Kasetsart University (KU).
On March 20, 2025 faculties from ACCESS4ALL and THE GLOW projects joined together for an interactive online learning session focused on course development process and perspectives on transdisciplinary education.
On Friday, February 21, 2025, the THE-GLOW project was honoured to participate in the Erasmus+ Info Session Day for Thailand, organized by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation, Thailand.
The webinar focused on transdisciplinary (TD) practice as a tool to tackle complex problems, particularly in health and social development. Participants engaged in plenary discussions, breakout group activities, and an interactive plenary session.
The Gender and Development Studies (GDS) Program at the School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD) of the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) inaugurated two new smart classrooms on 17 January 2025. This state-of-the-art facility was developed under the project, Transdisciplinary Higher Education for Global Wellbeing THE-GLOW project, an EU Erasmus+ initiative.
High-profile representatives from the European Commission, the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), and teams from Thammasat, Kasetsart, Asian Institute of Technology, Heidelberg, and Maastricht Universities gathered to discuss inter-regional collaboration in higher education and sustainable development.
The Erasmus+ Cluster Meeting and Contact-Making Seminar, as part of the Regional Erasmus+ Week 2024 for Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East, was held in Bangkok, Thailand during 13-14 November 2024. This event, brought by the Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture of the European Commission and the European Education and Culture Executive Agency, focused on the theme “Digital in Education”, aligned with the European Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027.