Our Background
For the past several years, Chulalongkorn University (CU, Thailand) has had strong collaboration with Nagaoka University of Technology (NUT, Japan) in many aspects. The collaboration has started from research collaborations through the 1st-4th Joint CU-NUT Symposium between CU (Faculty of Science and Faculty of Engineering) and NUT. has developed between Faculty of Science and NUT
. From the academic collaborations, we extended to collaborate with industry through CU-NUT GIGAKU Techno Park (GTP) in 2015. NUT had also separately established the academic-industrial research partnerships with CU (Thailand), Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST, Vietnam) and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM, Malaysia) through the corporation of GTP offices in Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia. Due to these previously successful collaborations, all partners would like to expand their academic-industrial networks to create more interdisciplinary, multi-national and sustainable cooperative environment through the establishment of the “Global Academia-Industry Consortium for Collaborative Education (GAICCE)” program, which has CU, HUST, USM, and NUT as the primary members together with Takasago Thermal Engineering (TTE) Co., Ltd. as the primary industrial partner. To further strengthen the academia and industry network in ASEAN and Japan regions according to ASEAN University Network/Southeast Asia Engineering Education Development Network (AUN/SEED-Net) project Phase IV framework, CU, HUST, USM, and NUT will conduct academic and industrial-related research collaborative activities among the consortium members, as well as will promote the student/staff exchange and double degree programs to their staff and students in the consortium members through the following activities. CU will be the primary university that will recruit students from USM, HUST, and other ASEAN universities to join the double degree programs between CU and NUT. USM and HUST will act as supporting universities that will both recruit students to attend the double degree programs between CU and NUT and also recruit students to attend their own double degree programs between HUST-NUT and USM-NUT. However, the main output of double degree students will be primarily from CU-NUT double degree program. With our research exchange/global internship, roadshow and interactive science and social programs, students from consortium members will have a short-term research and internship experience especially with the industries. Through these activities, the students will be more familiar working in the diverse environment and in turn we expect to enhance the collaborative research projects among our consortium members.
