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EU-ASEAN S&T cooperation to jointly tackle societal challenges

Thematic Area:

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Partners

European CommissionFramework ProgrammeContract: 311784

WATER FOOD HEALTH

THEMATIC AREA:

WATER

Water security presents a major global challenge for the future owing to a rapidly growing and unsustainable demand for water, increasingly urbanized populations, the effects of climate change and rapid shifts in land use.

Anil Kumar Anal, PhDAssociate Professor, Food Engineering and Bioprocess TechnologyCoordinator, Food Agriculture and Bio Systems (FABS) Cluster School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD) Asian Institute of Technology

Email: [email protected]@gmail.com

CONTACT:

The International Bureau of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, (PT-DLR),(Coordinator)www.internationales-buero.deChristoph Elineau E-mail: [email protected].: +49/(0)228/3821-1437 Fax.: +49/(0)228/3821-1444

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), The Netherlands www.knaw.nl

The British High Commission, Singapore (BHC), Singapore/United Kingdom www.ukinsingapore.fco.gov.uk

Regional Centre for Information and Scientific Development (RCISD), Hungary www.rcisd.eu

The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey -TUBITAK, Turkey www.tubitak.gov.tr

National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand www.nstda.or.th

Zentrum für Soziale Innovation (ZSI), Austria www.zsi.at

Ministry of State for Research and Technology (RISTEK), Indonesia www.ristek.go.id

National Agency for Science and Technology Information (NASATI), Vietnam www.vista.vn

Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), Francewww.cirad.fr

National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Sciences of Food Production (ISPA), Italy www.ispa.cnr.it

National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), DERCI-Europe of Research and International Cooperation Office, Francewww.cnrs.fr

Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN), Poland www.pan.pl

National Metrology Laboratory – SIRIM Berhad (NML-SIRIM), Malaysia www.sirim.my

The Research Council of Norway (RCN), Norway www.forskningsradet.no

Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand www.ait.ac.th

Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singaporewww.ntu.edu.sg

Euresearch (EUR), Switzerland www.euresearch.ch

Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI), Portugal www.spieurope.eu

Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) Laos www.most.gov.la

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Learn more about what SEAEUNET2 does for WATER:

Integrated Water use and management

Climate change and water resources management

Extreme events and risk management

Water conservation, water use efficiency and productivity enhancement

Transboundary waters: water sharing and conflict resolution

Water, energy and food nexus

Water governance

Technology and information management

Water security presents a major global challenge for the future owing to a rapidly growing and unsustainable demand for water, increasingly urbanized populations, the effects of climate change and rapid shifts in land use.

From both EU and ASEAN, there have been a significant number of publications related to water-related issues in different focus areas. Policies and management studies have been taking the most of the research, while impact studies of climate change, and interrelationship between water and energy are emerging research focus. Flooding being a serious problem in some ASEAN countries has become a prime research interest together with waste-water, agriculture, and water quality issues.

The key challenges for the ASEAN region includes collecting and maintaining high quality data, mitigating the impacts of water related hazards, sustaining and improving water quality, improving governance systems and acquiring financing for the development of new water infrastructure.

From both EU and ASEAN, there have been a significant number of publications related to

sustaining and improving water quality,

THE KEY CHALLENGES FOR THE ASEAN REGION

Collecting and maintaining

high quality data

Improving governance systems and acquiring

financing for the development of new water

infrastructure

Sustaining and improving water

quality

Mitigating the impacts of water related

hazards

Formation of Scientific Expert Panel, March 2013

Report on state of play in health, food and water management research, June 2013. Available at: www.sea-eu.net/object/document/119/attach/SEA-EU-NET_Brosch__re_Ansicht.pdf

Fellowship grants for young scientists, October 2013

1st Expert Workshop “Food Safety – Critical Dimension of Food Security in Emerging Economies”, December 2-3, 2013

Organization of the 1st Matchmaking/Brokerage event, January 21-22, 2014

Organizing 2nd Expert Workshop

Organizing 2nd Matchmaking/Brokerage event

Launch of the 1st call for proposal for fellowship, March 2014 Theme

European-Southeast – Asian Experts Workshop – From One Health (OH) Theory to Reality: Practical challenges, impact of OH initiatives and gaps in research, October 13-17, 2014

SEA - EU- NET II - Fellowship grants 2014-2016 -“One Health Master Class”, November 2-12, 2014