This presentation is part of the ProSPER.Net Young Researchers' School 2017 ‘Water Security For Sustainable Development in a Changing Climate’.

1. 2017 ProSPER.Net
Young Researchers’ School
‘Water Security for Sustainable
Development in a Changing
Climate’

3. DESA working paper, Leblanc,
March 2015
UN DESA Working Paper No.141, March 2015UN DESA Working Paper No.141, March 2015

4. Disciplinary
Sciences
Development
Policy
Sustainability
Science approach

5. Science-Policy Interface for Evidence-BasedScience-Policy Interface for Evidence-Based
Policy Decision-MakingPolicy Decision-Making
5
Science
(Evidence)
Problem
(Policy)

6. General objectives
• Opportunity for students to be exposed to
sustainability issues while developing research
skills within and across universities in the Asia-
Pacific region
• Foment regional network of students/future
professionals and academics working on
sustainable development

7. Specific objectives
• Increase participants’ recognition and
understanding of current socio-
economic-environmental problems
and sustainability challenges, as well as
solutions for sustainable development
in different contexts

8. • Develop research skills and research
communication skills:
–3-minute thesis
–Research communication
• Close interaction between students and
resource persons through group discussions
and field trips (content and context for
research proposal development) in a
multicultural and multidisciplinary
environment

9. Structure
• 10-day course with lectures and field trips
–specific lectures (on water security)
–research methodology/lectures/group
work
–fieldwork methodology/field trips
–communication skills:
• Research communication
• 3-minute thesis competition
• Student MC for each lecture session

10. Participating Institutions
• Students from ProSPER.Net member institutions
– RMIT University (Australia)
– Tongji University (China)
– TERI University (India)
– Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia)
– Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (Indonesia)
– Hokkaido University (Japan)
– Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Malaysia)
– Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
– Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
– Prince of Songkla University (Thailand)
– Ho Chi Minh University of Technology (Vietnam)

11. Outputs
• Research proposal – Group work
– To be developed during the researchers’
school
– Presentation on the last day
• One article relating the lectures and field trips to
your research
– All articles will be published in the
ProSPER.Net website
– Deadline for submission: 15 days after the YRS
– Maximum of 1,500 words

12. Facilitators for Lectures
• Lecture 1: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
• Lecture 2: Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia &
Chulalongkorn University
• Lecture 3: Tongji University
• Lecture 4: TERI University
• Lecture 5: Prince of Songkla University
• Lecture 6: RMIT University
• Lecture 7: RMIT University & TERI University
• Lecture 8: RMIT University
• Lecture 9: Universitas Gadjah Mada
• Lecture 10: HCM University of Tecknology & Hokkaido
University
• Lecture 11: Tongi University & HCM University of
Technology
• Lecture 12: Nanyang Technological University

13. Facilitating Lectures
• Introduction of speakers (bios in the booklet)
• Facilitate discussions, encourage and ask
questions
• Keep time
• Thank the speaker and active participation
• Prepare a 300 word summary of the session
that shall be submitted by the end of each
day to be published in the YRS blog. It will
also be presented at the last day of the
programme.