University of Granada Information Session
The Public and International Affairs Office would like to invite everyone to an information session on the University of Granada (UGR) on July 25 (Tuesday) at 1:30 pm (venue to be confirmed).
Ms. Maribel Morales and Ms. Virginia Salazar, Senior International Officers from UGR, will be coming to the Philippines under an Erasmus+ partnership between UA&P and UGR. They will talk about the city of Granada, UGR, and other possible topics of interest to the community.
For interested attendees, please register here on or before July 24. Feel free to contact [email protected] for questions.
UA&P-SEMRI and UP-NCTS seal research partnership
The UA&P Sciences Engineering and Management Research Institute (UA&P-SEMRI) and the University of the Philippines - National Center for Transportation Studies (UP-NCTS) signed in February an agreement to undertake collaboration in the field of transportation and logistics research and dissemination.
UP NCTS is an internationally recognized research center in the field of transportation studies with a mission to contribute to national growth and development by supporting academic instruction, conducting and promoting scholarly research, training, information, and other extension services in the field of transportation.
Under the agreement, the two research centers will undertake research on the following themes: transportation equity and justice, mobilization of financing for informal public transportation, and property value capture.
Established in December 2021, SEMRI is a collaboration between the School of Sciences and Engineering (SSE) and the School of Management (SMN) of the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P). Its vision is to be a leading trans- and multi-disciplinary research institute on the theme of societal innovation and sustainability in the Global South, using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods. Its mission is to advance sustainable development goals in the Global South through research, technology, and policies.
Since its establishment, SEMRI-affiliated researchers have already published a total of nine (9) Scopus-indexed articles in transportation, sustainable financing, energy, and digital innovation. Transportation, which is one of SEMRI's priority research areas, emerged at the top of the research topics in UA&P, based on EduRank. The independent university ranking system rated UA&P as the 13th best higher education institution in the Philippines.
In March 2023, SEMRI conducted the 1st Policy Dialogue on Service Contracting for Efficient and Equitable Public Transport Systems. This was attended by key stakeholders from the government, private sector, academe, and consultancy firms.
ACTIVITIES FOR 2023
● SEMRI is organizing the 1st Physical Internet for Logistics Conference with the theme: “Meeting the Global Logistics Challenge in the Philippines through the Physical Internet”. For more details, visit https://sites.google.com/uap.asia/physicalinternetph/conference.
● SEMRI is also organizing webinars related to transportation: https://sites.google.com/uap.asia/transportsciph/.
● SEMRI is also conducting several research studies related to transportation, logistics, clean water, renewable energy, etc. These activities need funding ranging from P25,000 (for webinars) to P100,000 (for events/day including meals and honoraria of speakers if hosted in UA&P). To financially support the research activities of SEMRI, kindly contact Dr. Enrique Ligot at [email protected] or [email protected].
CONTACT PERSONS FOR SEMRI
Dr. Enrique M. Ligot - SEMRI Executive Director and Vice Dean of the School of Sciences and Engineering (SSE)
Dr. Varsolo C. Sunio - SEMRI Chief Research Fellow and SMN/SSE part-time faculty
Ms. Karen Victoria Aragoncillo - SEMRI Administrative Officer and SSE Admin Staff
Network downtime on July 12
Please be informed that there will be a network downtime on July 12 (Wednesday) at 8:00 pm to give way to the maintenance activity on our network firewall. The downtime may last up to three hours.
PMAP Research Conference Call for Abstracts extended
The People Management Association of the Philippines officially announces its CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for the 2023 PMAP Research Conference with the theme “Harnessing Human Capital Development (HCD) in a Borderless Blue and Green Economies”.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is July 28, 2023.
For more information regarding the abstract submission, visit this link.
For inquiries, please email the PMAP Research Conference Secretariat at [email protected] (cc: [email protected]) using the subject: Research Conference INQUIRY.
This activity is supported by the UA&P School of Education and Human Development.
Holidays for August
The following dates have been declared non-working holidays for the month of August 2023:
August 15 (Tuesday)
University Day
UA&P holiday; Half-day work (morning only)
August 21 (Monday)
Ninoy Aquino Day
Special non-working holiday
August 28 (Monday)
National Heroes Day
Regular non-working holiday