Category: Partnerships for the goals

Industry, innovation and infrastructure / Opinions / Partnerships for the goals

“MUCED should have been more ambitious”, says former MUCED coordinator Randolph S. Jeremiah

Arne Wangelby Arne Wangel

In August 2000, MUCED, a consortium of four Malaysian universities, was formed to encourage new interdisciplinary approaches to environmental management. The consortium was part of a project proposed and supported by the DANCED program of the Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy. Randolph S. Jeremiah became the Coordinator in the Secretariat of MUCED. In this interview he points to some of the key experiences. Today, Randolph works as Head of Water Resources at ERE, a Malaysian consultant company.

Clean water and sanitation / Climate action / Opinions / Partnerships for the goals

MUCED: Personal development, educational development at universities and practical environmental development in the Malaysian society

Arne Wangelby Arne Wangel

One of the first Malaysian students to benefit from the MUCED programme was professor Suhaimi Abdul Talib. In 2001 he went to Denmark to work on his Ph.D. project Anoxic transformations of wastewater organic matter in sewers – process kinetics, model concept and wastewater treatment potential. During two periods of three months, he had his day-to-day work in the laboratories of Institute of Environmental Engineering at Aalborg University.

Partnerships for the goals / Resources / Zero hunger

Gulu: When a PhD Student Investigates the Relevance of a University to the Neighbouring Community

William Odinga Balikuddembeby William Odinga Balikuddembe

When Asaf Adebua in 2017 started to study for his PhD at Gulu University ‘The Contributions of Institutions of Higher Learning to Post-war Community Transformation: The Case of Gulu University in Gulu District’, he was investigating the relevance of his university to the community it targets to transform, going by the university’s motto, For Community Transformation.

Good health and well-being / News / Partnerships for the goals / Peace, justice and strong institutions

Ethnographic Research: One Man’s Long Journey to PhD

William Odinga Balikuddembeby William Odinga Balikuddembe

Sulayman Mpisi Babiiha’s PhD experience represents the epitome of perseverance of an academic. His account is touching, but because he speaks with so much calmness, I can take it in with some ease. He has been pursuing his PhD certificate for ten years and he won’t give up the hope yet.

Opinions / Partnerships for the goals / Peace, justice and strong institutions

“Public engagement”: New role for researchers in Kenya?

Verah Okeyoby Verah Okeyo

Some of Kenya’s most celebrated scientists and researchers congregated in a hotel in Nairobi, to celebrate the world anti-microbial week. Apart from the jaw breaking scientific recommendations that came at the end of the two-day event to research more on taming the abuse of drugs, was scientists needed to interact more with the public.

Climate action / News / Partnerships for the goals / Responsible consumption and production / Zero hunger

Food innovation for a sustainable future

Samanta Miodleby Samanta Miodle

It is becoming increasingly more evident that meat overconsumption is problematic due to various factors and there are direct consequences to the patterns of meat consumption in excess. I met with Ph.D. student Krishnachandra Sharma Hidangmayum, at University of Copenhagen Department of Food Science, to learn about his insights in the subject and the work he has done to advance sustainable solutions in food innovation.

News / Partnerships for the goals

Same sky, different insights: Danish-Chilean research collaboration on astronomy

Marta Apablaza Riquelmeby Marta Apablaza Riquelme

Chile has outstanding geographical and climatic qualities to do research in astronomy. Denmark has great resources and human capital to do cutting edge scientific research. Even though Chile and Denmark are 12.724 kilometres apart, if you look deeper, you can find great research and scientific collaboration between both countries.