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 […]
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), through Sustainable Mountain Tourism Component of Action Area on Economies and the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) of Action Area on Regional Network, National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP), Varagung Muktichhetra Rural Municipality (VMRM) and Nepal Tourism Board is organizing a 3-day field school in Kagbeni, Mustang, and a 4-day policy writeshop in Pokhara.
The Himalayan University Consortium is proud to be a partner in a worldwide education coalition in support of the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit. The 4 - 7 June Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit hosted by United Nations Human Rights and the University of Oxford will take place virtually and in […]
About the event The 2025 Fieldschool, titled Lumbini to Lo Manthang (L2L): Planetary health across the Himalaya caters to a diverse group of undergraduate students from environment, engineering, the humanities […]
This four-day workshop is organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)- Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in collaboration with the Regional Information Service (RIS) and Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) under ICIMOD’s Regional Action Area.
About the event The meeting between the Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) and the leadership of the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) will focus on exchanging knowledge and experience in institution-building, governance, and strategies for organizational transformation toward greater independence and sustainability. Objectives Identify potential areas of synergy and […]
The symposium takes the form of a two-year project that encompasses capacity-building, a workshop/ conference, field-research, and collective publication. A key-event is a multiple-days, in-person workshop in Thimphu, Bhutan that will consist of technical sessions, methodological discussions, guest-lectures, and the streamlining and planning of publication goals. The symposium is open to scholars working in the […]
About the event An inception meeting of a new Thematic Working Group on Sustainable Mountain Settlement of the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) is being organized in Yunan, China aligning closely with the ICIMOD’s intervention on Sustainable Mountain Settlement. The event will gather altogether 20 academia and researchers in the fields of spatial planning, architecture, landscaping, […]
Background The Steering Committee is the Himalayan University Consortium’s (HUC) highest governing body. The committee’s meetings set the course of action for the consortium for the calendar year and track the progress of the implementation of HUC Strategy 2018–2025. The second meeting of HUC SC for 2024, convened on an exceptional basis, is critical for […]
About the event The Meeting in Kathmandu on 8-11 September is the only in-person meeting of the Joint Task Force (JTF), aiming to produce the first draft of the four documents as key JTF deliverables, to be reviewed by the HUC Steering Committee in its second (e)-Meeting in 19-20 September. Objectives Discuss and draft […]
About the event The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), under the aegis of the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) and Rangeland Management Intervention, is working with Lanzhou University and the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), to organise a series of activities in the rangeland and pastoral areas of China as […]
About the writeshop This policy writeshop brings together relevant stakeholders representing governments, private sectors, researchers, civil society organisations, and community members from Pakistan, China, and Nepal to brainstorm and formulate policy briefs. This activity builds on the 2023 stock take exercise on mountain tourism and climate change, (aligned with the UNFCCC’s 2023 Synthesis Report on GST and TPCC’s […]
