Category Archives: 2018

The course offering for IARU Courses in 2019 is now live! Explore the IARU Courses offered in 2019. Click into each course page to find application instructions, course details, etc.

2019 courses include Sustainable Urban Management, Environmental Leadership Program, The Rise of China and Change in World Politics, Afropolitanism, Social Justice and Social Entrepreneurship, and more. 

Each course page includes a link to find more information about course details, including application instructions.  

For more information please contact an IARU Courses Coordinator. 

The IARU Alumni Directors met for the 9th time at Peking University on 13-15 December 2018. Learn more about the IARU Alumni Associations Network here.  

The new GT-GSP field course COP4 – Borderland: Critical Approaches to Field Research in the Global South ran successfully from 20 June – 18 July 2018 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Click below to read about the student perspective.

Two COP4 students wrote a blog on their experiences in the Borderlands course: https://eyeonglobalhealth.com/2018/08/10/borderland-experiences-in-northern-thailand/.

Read the blog post from two ETH Zurich instructors who participated in the course: https://blogs.ethz.ch/ETHambassadors/2018/08/09/board-games-for-borderlands/. 

Read more about Borderlands Field Course

The 2018 IARU Aging, Longevity and Health (ALH) Graduate Student Conference was held on 17 October 2018 at NUS. Graduate students could submit abstracts for presentations until 10 August 2018.

Held in the lion city of Singapore, the conference brought together renown researchers from across the IARU global alliance to feature innovations on:

• Healthy Aging
• Employment and Employability of Older Adults
• Community Support for At Risk Older Adults
• Aging, Technology and the Environment

The  IARU Graduate Student Conference was held concurrent with the Scientific Conference to enable graduate students to share their research and explore the possibility of collaborative partnerships within the IARU Network. Partial scholarships of up to Singapore $1000/- were available to graduate students whose abstracts are accepted for presentation. Information on the abstract submission requirements can be found here.

For further inquiries, please contact the conference secretariat at: care@duke-nus.edu.sg.

View the brochure here.

For more information, please visit https://webapps.duke-nus.edu.sg/care/IARUAgeingLongevityandHealth2018/

National University of Singapore hosted the 1st IARU Cybersecurity Forum, which took place on 4-5 April 2018.

All representative institutions shared cybersecurity practices in their respective universities’ context and countries.  The meeting agreed on follow-up actions in several areas of collaboration, including joint development of KPIs and benchmarks; formation of virtual teams; creation of a shared online platform as well as provision of contact points for specific issues. 

Learn more about the IARU Cybersecurity Forum here.

This report is designed to provide sustainability practitioners, policymakers and building users with a framework for designing successful initiatives to reduce energy use at universities.

There is no one best way for altering high energy-consuming behaviours, and in order to create enduring, high-impact policies in universities, interventions should aim to change social norms through holistic and multi-pronged approaches. These approaches may involve education, modelling, incentives, environmental restructuring, persuasion, and enabling. Any one-intervention approach is less likely to create success.

Using a literature review and responses from the IARU universities, this report overviews tactics for designing comprehensive and effective interventions. Nine broad intervention options outlined in their model and are linked here to specific interventions with relevance to universities.

Read the Energy Behavior Case Study here. 

Learn more about the IARU Sustainability Initiative here.