SECRA PH Launches on May 19, 2021

Strengthening University-Enterprise Collaboration for Resilience Communities in Asia" (SECRA) aims to contribute to more resilient communities in Asia through institutionalized, systematic, monitored, innovative, and inclusive university–enterprise collaboration (UEC) in climate change action and disaster resilience (DR). SECRA also aims to produce inputs to policies governing collaborative activities in partner countries; a relation framework to understand UEC; an online platform for a Community of Practice (CoP) consisting of HEIs, public sector and enterprise actors; a corporate start-up lab and networking activities in partner HEIs, and a monitoring tool to assess the quality of UEC that can be broadly contextualized for use in HEIs worldwide.

The launch event of SECRA will be on May 19, 2021, 4:00PM Manila time via Zoom. Interested attendees may sign up through here: bit.ly/PHSECRALaunch or by scanning the QR code in the poster above.

For more information about the launch program please click here: bit.ly/SECRAPrimer

SECRA is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education (CBHE) grant. The overall project coordinator is Mid Sweden University. Members of the consortium hail from the UK, Estonia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and the Philippines.

In the Ateneo, the project is being implemented jointly through the Dept. of Environmental Science, the Ateneo Research Institute for Science and Engineering (SOSE-ARISE) the Ateneo Institute of Sustainability, the John Gokongwei School of Management and the Ateneo Intellectual Property Office.