About the event The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) will celebrate the relaunch and handover of the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) to the Kathmandu University (KU) and the announcement and presentation of the Dr. Andreas Schild Memorial Mountain Prize 2025. This celebration is a dedicated event marking the International Mountain Day 2025. Background The Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) was established by ICIMOD in 2007 as a collaborative network of universities and academic institutions across the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region to strengthen research, education, and knowledge exchange and lead sustainable mountain development in this unique yet fragile region. […]

The HUC Academy is one of HUC’s flagship programs that provides opportunities for researchers to engage in interdisciplinary and complex mountain challenges. The HUC Academy aims to strengthen the capacities of researchers, scholars, and mid-career faculty to better understand the interlinkages between climate change and migration in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. It seeks to foster a new generation of transformational leaders committed to mountain research, capable of producing consequential and innovative knowledge, evidence to support mountain policies, and practices to address mountain challenges in the HKH. The Academy will also create space for collaborative research development, peer learning, […]