GREENUS- Green waste management new education system for recycling and environmental protection in Asia

This is a collaborative project between 03 universities in Europe and 03 Vietnamese universities (Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh University of Technology - Vietnam National University HCMC, Can Tho University) and 02 universities in Myanmar.

GREENUS SPECIFIC GOALS

• To bring n. 6 new multidisciplinary courses into the curriculum of n. 5 universities, in order to increase the local competences on Waste Management and recycling;
• To increase the capacities of Beneficiary universities’ laboratories to provide practical training on waste treatment in order to answer to market demands;
• To introduce in the didactic offer, innovative teaching methods (problem solving) and tools (ICT) to assure a wider spreading of competences;
• To enhance the employability opportunities of students, involving local stakeholders in the courses’ design and informing them in the business opportunities correlated with an optimized management of (urban and industrial) waste;

In order to help HCMUT’s students understand the project, raise awareness of environmental protection in general as well as reduce, reuse and recycle waste in particular, in order to build a "ECO-CAMPUS” at the HCMUT, representative of the project team – Dr. Vo Thanh Hang, lecturer of the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, who shared the GREENUS project with the 2nd year students of these Faculties: Chemical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Industrial Management and Applied Science as well as the first year students of the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources through the Opening Ceremony for the semester 2022 - 2023.

Introducing the GREENUS project to the 2nd year students of these faculties: Chemical Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Industrial Management and Applied Science.

The freshmen student of Environment and Natural Resources Faculty listen to the project's introduction through the welcoming ceremony