ASEAN Regional Center of Excellence on Millennium Development Goals

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Background

Consciousness for sustainable development is at the peak at present because of mainly rising food and energy insecurity, and potential threats due to climate change. Rapid state of depletion of natural resources, frequent occurence of natural calamities (drought, flood, cyclones and others), challenge for eradication of poverty, hunger and associated problems are some of the important but interconnected issues that require utmost attention from every quaters for providing safer and secured socities whether it is in the developed and developing countries.

With this background, AIT has been involved over last 3 decades in providing academic curricula focused on Millennium Development Goals spreading over three schools and Extension/Outreach units. AIT is being a regional institute with international, multilingual, and cross-cultural attributes, always strives to contribute for the region and beyond through planning, technological, development and management related education, training, research and outreach activities.

 

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