Prospects for enhanced EUAsia cooperation and dialogue From

Prospects for enhanced EU-Asia cooperation and dialogue From “ASEAN’s Perspective”

21 AUN Member Universities: Brunei • Universiti Brunei Darussalam Cambodia • Royal University of Phnom Penh Indonesia • • • Universitas Gadjah Mada Universitas Indonesia Institut Technologi Bandung Lao PDR • National University of Laos Malaysia • • • University of Malaya Universiti Sains Malaysia Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Philippines • • • Singapore • • National University of Singapore Nanyang Technological University Thailand • • • Chulalongkorn University Burapha University Mahidol University Viet Nam Myanmar • • Institute of Economics, Yangon University of the Philippines De La Salle University Ateneo de Manila University Vietnam National University, Hanoi Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City

Experiences on Inter-regional Cooperation (ASEAN – EU) ASEAN - EU University Network Programme (AUNP): 2000 -2006 1. Partnership projects: 20 projects (102 HEIs) 2. Network initiatives: RTMs, RCs, TAs

Inter-regional Collaboration ASEAN – China Academic Exchange Programme: • Collaborative research on the most urgent and common agendas: Avian Flu, disaster management and other transnational concerns • ASEAN-China Academic Meetings – (ASEAN-China Rectors’ Conference) • AUN-China scholarships • The Center of ASEAN Language and Culture Studies in China

Interregional Collaboration ASEAN – ROK Academic Exchange Programme • Collaborative research in the disciplines of Science and Technology, ICT, Energy and Resources, and Finance • Sharing best practices in ICT • ASEAN-ROK Centre to promote sociocultural cooperation: ASEAN Centre for Korean Studies

AUN-Southeast Asia Engineering Education Network (AUN/SEED-Net) o Networking of 19 leading Member Institutions from 10 ASEAN countries and 11 Japanese Supporting Universities are providing M. Sc. and Ph. D. o Mainly Supported by the Japanese Government through the JICA and partially supported by the ASEAN Foundation Phase I: 2002 -2007 (>400 graduates) Phase II: 2008 -2013

Roadmap for an ASEAN Community (2009 -2015) • ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Blueprint: has primarily goal to – Focusing on people-centered and socially responsible with a view to achieving enduring solidarity an unity of nations – Forging a common identity and building a caring and sharing society

Roadmap for an ASEAN Community (2009 -2015) • Human Development: Advancing and prioritising education (Higher Education) – Improve the quality and adaptability of education in the ASEAN region by developing technical assistance programme including training and staff exchange programme – Use ICT to promote education and LLL through open, distance education and e-learning – Promote education networking and enhance and support student and staff exchanges and professional interactions including creating research clusters

Roadmap for an ASEAN Community (2009 -2015) – Strengthen collaboration with other regional and international educational organisations to enhance the quality of education in the region – Promote the options of university placements in other country through “a semester abroad” or “a year abroad” programme – Support the citizens of ASEAN to become proficient in the English language

Roadmap for an ASEAN Community (2009 -2015) • Strengthen collaborative research and development in applied science and technology to enhance community well- being • Facilitate the exchange and mobility of scientists and researchers from both public and private sector • Establish strategic alliances with private sectors to promote R&D collaboration, technology transfer and commercialisation, • etc

What is the common interest for international cooperation? ? Long-term strategic plan? ? How to select the partners? ?

Inter-regional cooperation!! • on strengthening cooperation in higher education by forging long-term strategic partnerships for quality assurance, credit recognition and transfer between two regions, – By promoting stakeholder involvement particularly students and employers through quality assurance process for education quality improvement purposes – By sharing experiences and promoting co-peer quality assessment – By building mechanism for education quality recognition with regard to Joint-Ph. D programme development

Inter-regional cooperation!! • on enhancement of student and academic mobility and employability through research collaboration, – By establishing the research area of collaboration between two regions with a strong financial support • At government level, ASEM Scholarship or EU-Asia Scholarship • At HE institutional level, setting up “EU-Asia Research Consortium” with long-term research grant for joint Ph. D programme – By sharing experiences and lesson learned on • the promotion of University-Industry Partnership • on bringing together a good quality education and for serving the needs of labor market in both regions

Best synergise efforts A series of Interregional Quality Assurance and Accreditation Workshops with multi-track agendas – Promote interregional dissemination of ideas, best practices and knowledge – Promote standardization of procedures and standards which will support interregional collaboration – Provide networking opportunities for practitioners and policy makers

Encourage Regional Policy Makers to explicitly mandate a proportion of all subsequent collaborations to involve researchers and HE Institutions from both regions – Supporting regional databases should be created and linked to aid the search process – Quality Assurance and Accreditation initiatives should be focused to expedite targeted collaborations

Expected success!! Welling to work together…having a trust… becoming a friend… having a common interest… believing in same thing… Then all partners can have “Sustainable partnerships”

Jae zu tin bar tae (Myanmar) Salamat Po (Philippines) Cam On (Viet Nam) Terima Kasih (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore) Kop jai (Laos) Or kun Kop Khun (Thailand) (Cambodia)