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Internationalization

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College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS)

Conference/Event

Date and Venue
Three students won international study grants: Kriza Faye Calumba (BS Food Technology) to National University of Singapore; Nicole Kathryn M. Go and Gian Paulo R. Paglinawan (both BA Communication Arts) to Chulalongkorn University inThailand. Singapore, Thailand, 2012
US-based artists, aerial artist Kennedy Kabasares and dancer Miguel C. Braganza II, gave public lectures to students in 20 July and 16 August, respectively UP Mindanao, 20 July and 16 August 2012
Prof. Maria Araceli Dans-Lee’s illustrated children’s book  “Who Am I?”, was given a book launch in Malaysia by Magicbird Publishing on 04 November 2012. Malaysia, 04 November 2012.
The Tripartite Partnership for Peacebuilding Research with Hiroshima University conducted lectures and forums on Peace Research, Indigenous Peoples, the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro, and Updates on the NDF-GRP Talks.  February, July, August, November 2012, Davao City
"UNDERCURRENTS: Imagining a Post-Peace Agreement Period in Mindanao", ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS ON PEACEBUILDING. 01-02 December 2011, Davao City

1st Philippine-Japan Linguistics Conference

October 20-21, 2006, Davao City

RP-Japan Festival 2005 Public Lectures

February 10, 2005, UP Mindanao,

RP-Japan Festival Month

February 14-15, 2005 UP Mindanao
 School of Management (SOM)

Conference/Event

Date and Venue

Dean Sylvia Concepcion attended and gave a paper presentation in the international conference, “Value chains for transforming smallholder agriculture”

Ethiopia, November 2012

SOM hosted an Asian Dev. Bank Forum on “Taking the Right Road to Inclusive Growth” with Dr. Norio Usui and Mr. Neeraj Jain, ADB Country Director

UP Mindanao, 31 August 2012

SOM faculty and researchers attended and gave presentations in the 4th International Symposium on Supply Chains 

Cebu City, July 2012

Conference on “Improving the Performance of Supply Chains in the Transitional Economies: Responding to the Challenge of Linking Small holder Producers to Dynamic Markets”

July 9-12, 2008, Davao City

 

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International Linkage with Universities

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UNIVERSITY

COUNTRY / REGION

PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

Hiroshima University Japan To establish a HiPeC-SSN-UP Mindanao Tripartite Partnership in Davao City to allow researchers to cooperate with local research organizations to seek out and establish peace-building studies beginning April 2011

Curtin University of Technology

Western Australia, Australia

Linking Farmers: Scoping Study (2005-2006)

Linking smallholder vegetable producers in the Philippines to higher value markets (April 2008)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

The EMC Conservation Collaborative Program: The primary objective of the project is to develop a digital database of land use/ land cover change for the Mt. Apo-EMC Region in collaboration with faculty and staff of UPMIN, with the cooperation of the Philippine Eagle Foundation, Inc.; (September 2004-September 2007)

Osaka University

Japan

Research Collaboration with the International Center for Biotechnology

Prof. Lynn Esther E. Rallos (Feb 26 to March 15, 2006)

Nagoya University

Japan

Research Collaboration, DNA Sequencing of Vertebrate samples; Dr. Severo T. Bastian (July 23-August 2, 2005; November 1-30, 2005)

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Projects with Foreign Organizations/Donors

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Date

Project

Details (Organization/Donors)

July 2012

Received books donation through alumnus Salvador Angala with 405 vols. to CSM Library, 193 vols. to SOM Library, and 222 vols. to CHSS Library.

Rotary International “Books for the Philippines Project”   with Rotary Club of Hillsboro, RC Portland, RC Beaverton, RC Portland Westside, RC East Portland, RC Salem Creekside, RC Forest Grove, and District 5100 Governor Mike Caruso. Also, RC West Davao

November 2012

Discussions for possible participation

Embassy of France University Attache Camille Dulor  

February 2012

Accepted the second book donation package

From alumna Evelina Espina, UPAA Greater Chicago

 

Developing a Health Strategy at the ARMM

Save the Children

November 2006–April 2007

Asian Public Intellectual

Nippon Foundation

 

College of Science and Mathematics

Date

Project

Details

(Organization/Donors)
     

 

July 2007–June 2011

 

Sea Ranching and Restocking of Sandfish in Asia Pacific: Mindanao, Philippines Node

A Worldfish R&D Project funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

2004 - 2005

Fermentor-Scale Studies of Direct Lactic Acid Production from Sago Starch

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) travel grant to Japan

 

School of Management

Date

Project/Research

Details

(Organization/Donors)
2008-2012 Linking Farmers to Institutional Markets Australian Center for International Agriculture Research (ACIAR)

2005 - 2008

Regoverning Markets Programme

Funded by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED),

 

May 2007

 

 

Capacity Building on Policy & Institutional Mapping for Inclusion of Small Scale Producers

 

Pearl Farm Resort, Island Garden City of Samal, Philippines

Funded by the Regoverning Markets Programme. Resource persons were Sonja Vermeulen of the IIED and Jim Woodhill of Wageningen University, NETHERLANDS. The participants of the activity came from 8 Asian countries.

May 2007

 

 

Policy and Institutional Mapping Workshop

 

 

Held at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

 

Funded by the Regoverning Markets Programme and International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP)

Dr. Bill Vorley of the IIED and stakeholders from the private and public sector attended the workshop.

June to September 2007

Study for Socio-Economic Reconstruction & Development of Conflict-Affected Areas in Mindanao (SERD-CAAM)

Funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

 
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Other Internationalization Efforts

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Number of books donated by international agencies to the Library (2005-2007).

 
 DONORS

DONATIONS (in volumes)

Asia Foundation

434

Asian Development Bank

206

Japan Foundation

19

UPAA-Central California

589

UPAA-San Diego

488

UPAA-Singapore

14

Thomas Jefferson Information Center

38

World Bank

231

TOTAL

2,019

 

A pool of referees from foreign universities have been gathered for the Banwa, UP Mindanao’s refereed journal :

Banwa Volume 5 – 1&2 (2008) Sago Research

Name

University

Period Covered

Country of Origin

Dr. Hairul Azman Roslan

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

February 8, 2007

Malaysia

Dr. Kopli Bujang

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

April 5, 2007

Malaysia

Dr. Anders S. Barfod

University of Aarhus, Denmark

May 4, 2007

Denmark

Dr. Hiroshi Ehara

Mei University, Japan)

June 11, 2007

Japan

 

Banwa Volume 6 – 1 (2009) Social Science

Name

University

Period Covered

Country of Origin

Dr. Roy B. Murray-Prior

Curtin University of Technology

May 22, 2007

Australia

Mr. Peter Batt of the Curtin University of Technology is a member of the Editorial Board of Banwa (2007-2008)

Prof. Ricardo M. de Ungria (Dept. of Humanities),  Best Poem Reader,  European Union  "Dia del Libro"  Celebration, Instituto Cervantes-Manila.

Dr. Sylvia B. Concepcion and Dr. Larry N. Digal were cited in the World Development Report 2008 of the World Bank for their case study on the Northern Mindanao Vegetable Producers Association, Inc. (NORMIN Veggies) which was made under the Regoverning Markets Programme.

The chapter on the Philippines in the book, Regoverning Markets: A Place for Small-Scale Producers in Modern Agrifood Chains? Edited by Bill Vorley, Andrew Fearne, and Derek Ray. Gower Publishing Ltd, Gower House, England. ISBN-13:978-0-566-08730-1 was written by Dr. Sylvia B. Concepcion and Dr. Larry N. Digal with Ms. Joan Uy of NORMIN Veggies.

Dr. Eufemio T. Rasco, Jr., – (2007) Book publication: ‘The Unfolding of the Gene Revolution’ is sponsored by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York through ISAAA SEAsiaCenter, Philippines

The CHSS is holding exploratory talks with University of Newcastle, Australia for a twinning program to offer a Master of Social Change Development

Negotiations have started for a collaborative research on measuring community capacity and health outcomes involving researchers from Johns Hopkins University

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