1. The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) plays a key role in the region as a neutral platform for international scholars to conduct interdisciplinary research on cross-border issues through regional collaboration.
2. AIT was founded in 1959 as the first autonomous international post-graduate institute in Asia, hosted in Thailand, and has over 20,000 alumni from 100 countries working on issues without political or geographic boundaries.
3. AIT conducts large, multinational research projects on issues like climate change, agriculture, and water management worth millions of dollars involving collaboration between researchers and communities across Southeast Asian borders.
16. 1. International perspective
2. Regional orientation
3. Multidisciplinary approach
4. Cross national solutions
5. Relevant research
6. Knowledge dispersal in a market
economy
7. Politically neutral.
AIT : Regional Platform
of Research for Mankind
26. AIT joins France to host regional Science and
Climate Change Conference in 2015, as prelude to
global COP 21
27. Regional project to
reinvent
decentralized
systems and
technologies for
treatment and safe
disposal of human
excreta and
wastewater.
Total research
grant: us$ 5 million
Project period:2011-
2016
Thailand
Cambodia
Vietnam
Sustainable Decentralized Wastewater
Management in Developing Countries
28. Agricultural Learning
Exchange for Asian
Regional Networking
(AgLEARN)
Total Research Grant: 899,000
USD
Project Period: 2013‐2016
Location of the Action: Nepal,
Bangladesh, Cambodia with
support from collaborators in
Thailand, India and USA,
29. Sustaining and Enhancing the Momentum for
Innovation and Learning around System of
Rice Intensification (SLR) n the Lowe Mekong
River Basin (LMB)
Total Research Grant: Euros 3.4 million (US$ 4.37
million)
Project Period: 2013‐2018
Location of the Action: Thailand, Cambodia, Lao
People’s Democratic Republic, Viet Nam
.
SRI‐LMB working in
partnership with
30. AIT and World Wide Fund (WWF) Thailand awarded
US$ 980,000 project from HSBC Water Sustainability
Program
“Building Capacity
and Strengthening
Community
Participation for
Water Resources
Management and
Wetland Ecosystem
Restoration in the
Context of Climate
Change in Lower
Songkhram River
Basin”