ASEA-UNINET National Coordinators’ Meeting held at Udayana University in Bali, Indonesia

The ASEA-UNINET National Coordinators‘ Meeting was recently held on February 10-11, 2025, in Bali, Indonesia, hosted by Udayana University (Unud).

At the meeting, held at Unud, in the presence of the Rector, Prof. Ketut Sudarsana, the participants worked on the preparation of the network’s Plenary Meeting to be held in Brescia, Italy, from September 8-12, 2025, which will have as its discussion topics:

i. Digital Humanism and Arts in Academia

ii. Quantum Physics

iii. Renewable Energies

iv. Global Health and Sustainable Food Production

v. Ecological Economics/Bioeconomy

The mission of ASEA-UNINET President, Prof. Roberto Ranzi, continued to East Timor, a country that achieved independence in 1999, where, together with ASEA-UNINET Coordinator for Technology, Innovation and Sustainability Projects for Europe, Prof. A Min Tjoa of Technische Universität Wien, he met with Rector Prof. João Soares Martins and a large academic delegation from Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e to invite this university to join the academic network in the near future.

The ASEA-UNINET network includes 90 universities from Europe, mainly from Austria (21) and Italy (6) and from ASEAN countries, such as the founding countries Indonesia(12), Thailand (21), and Vietnam (13).

The goal of the network is to promote quality research in the context of academic relations between Europe and ASEAN countries, which are home to 8 percent of the world’s population and produce 7.2 percent of the world’s GDP.