BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//HUC-HKH - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:HUC-HKH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://huc-hkh.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for HUC-HKH REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kathmandu BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0545 TZOFFSETTO:+0545 TZNAME:+0545 DTSTART:20170101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20200101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220512 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220513 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20220512T054138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241025T090103Z UID:2245-1652313600-1652399999@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Climate risk and uncertainty in India DESCRIPTION:About the webinar\nClimate change is widely acknowledged as the single biggest threat to humanity. However\, there is a large gap between the risks from climate change estimated by global models and how the risks are perceived by people at the local level\, where climate change is one of the many factors involved in decision-making. My Climate Risk Hub for the Hindu Kush Himalaya under ICIMOD’s Himalayan University Consortium’s (HUC) is organizing a webinar to highlight this gap with a focus on the role of uncertainty across different spatio-temporal scales. The webinar is targeted at an interdisciplinary audience including scientists\, social scientists\, policymakers\, and activists. \nSpeaker\n\n\nLyla Mehta\nProfessorial Fellow\nInstitute of Development Studies\, UK \nLyla Mehta’s work focuses on climate change\, uncertainty\, and transformation. She uses the case of water and sanitation to focus on the politics of gender\, scarcity\, uncertainty\, rights and access to resources\, resource grabbing\, and power and policy processes. Mehta leads the Belmont/Norface/EU/ISC project on ‘Transformations as praxis’ in South Asia and is also the co-editor of the journal Environment and Planning E. Her most recent books include Water for Food Security Nutrition and Social Justice and The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India. \n\nKrishna Achutarao\nProfessor\nCentre for Atmospheric Sciences\, Indian Institute of Technology\, Delhi \nKrishna Achutarao’s research focuses on using climate models to understand how the earth’s climate is affected by natural and anthropogenic factors. His current interests include attribution of extreme weather events\, changing risk of extreme events under a warming climate. and adaptation to climate change. He has been associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2001 and was a lead author in the recently released Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) and the previous AR5 report. \n\nKrishna Malakar\nAssistant Professor\nDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Indian Institute of Technology\, Madras \nKrishna Malakar’s research focuses on understanding the human dimensions of environmental and climate change such that it can inform policy and action. She is particularly interested in assessing the risk\, vulnerability\, and adaptation of communities to climate change. Malakar has presented her work in numerous conferences and published extensively in reputed journals. She holds a Ph.D. from the Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies\, IIT Bombay. \n\nSomnath Baidya Roy\nProfessor\nCentre for Atmospheric Sciences\, Indian Institute of Technology\, Delhi \nSomnath Roy uses regional climate models to study the interactions between land use/land cover and climate. His current research projects look at the carbon cycle over croplands of India and the effects of climate/climate change on forest fires. Roy is also the Chief Editor of Earth Systems Dynamics\, an interdisciplinary journal of the European Geosciences Union. \nTentative agenda\nThursday\, 12 May 2022 | 16:00-18:00 (IST) \n\n\n\nTime (IST)\nProgramme\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n16:00–16:05\nIntroduction to My Climate Risk in the Hindu Kush Himalaya\nSomnath Roy\, Indian Institute of Technology\, Delhi\n\n\n16:05–16:50\nPanelists’ intervention\n(15 minutes each)\nLyla Mehta\, Professorial Fellow\, Institute of Development Studies\, UK\nKrishna Achutarao\, Professor\, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences\, Indian Institute of Technology\, Delhi\nKrishna Malakar\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences\, Indian Institute of Technology\, Madras\n\n\n16:50–17:05\nComments by the Chair\nSomnath Baidya Roy\, Professor\, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences\, Indian Institute of Technology\, Delhi\n\n\n17:05–17:25\nRoundtable\n\n\n\n17:25–17:55\nQ&A\n\n\n\n17:55–18:00\nClosing\nChi H Truong (Shachi)\, Programme Coordinator\, Himalayan University Consortium\, ICIMOD URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/climate-risk-and-uncertainty-in-india/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/6295fe05b914b.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220328 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220330 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240828T082906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T100400Z UID:2260-1648425600-1648598399@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Cryosphere hazards and society in Bhutan and Pakistan AND HUC’s TWG on Cryosphere and Society DESCRIPTION:About the workshop and meeting\nThe workshop will review the work of stakeholders in the field of cryosphere science in Bhutan and Pakistan\, particularly members of HUC. During this workshop\, the HUC Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Cryosphere and Society will present their work\, including an introduction to modelling and field methods and the potential for upscaling. The TWG will also share ongoing work in Bhutan and the Upper Indus basin on climate change impacts on livelihoods\, ecosystems\, hydrosphere\, and cryosphere. \nThe first half of the workshop will focus on the ongoing project led by the University of Bristol. Our partners will then present their work\, which will provide an overview of the ongoing challenges related to cryosphere hazards and society in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. \nThe first meeting of the core group of HUC’s TWG on Cryosphere and Society took place in March 2021. This follow-up meeting will update members of the progress and consolidate the Group’s governance structure and draft a concrete workplan for 2022. \nThe two events pay close attention to the diversity of stakeholders and unites academics and practitioners from across the region.\n  \nExpected outputs\nIn addition to a consolidated governance structure for HUC’s TWG on Cryosphere and Society\, this workshop will contribute to the following three outputs: \n\nA mapped potential partner landscape in cryosphere hazards and society for the UIB. This will be useful for ICIMOD and partners to navigate the field. HUC has already fostered several exchanges between partners in Pakistan\, which has prepared the ground for future collaborations and strengthened our role as a knowledge broker.\nA brief outline of the knowledge gaps and needs in the field of cryosphere\, hazards\, and society in the HKH and a draft roadmap for future research and action.\nA tailored infrastructure risk assessment tool and its application in the region\, which will be presented and discussed during the workshop.\n\n  \nExpected participants\nIn-person participants include social scientists from HUC and ICIMOD strategic knowledge partners in Pakistan: Karakoram International University (KIU); University of Punjab; LUMS\, Lahore; Information Technology University\, Lahore; University of Peshawar; University of Baltistan; COMSATS University Islamabad/Abbottabad; and Aga Khan Agency for Habitat’s (AKAH). \nVirtual participants include members of HUC’s TWG on Cryosphere and Society in Afghanistan\, Bhutan\, China\, and HUC Associate Members in Europe\, North America\, and Central Asia. Selected representatives from fellow TWGs and cross-cutting workgroups will be attending as observers.\n  \nBackground\nThe Upper Indus Basin is one of the most vulnerable basins when it comes to water and ice as a resource. It has been impacted by an exceptionally high number of hydrosphere-related disasters\, including glacial lake outburst floods\, debris flows\, landslides\, fluvial and pluvial floods\, as well as rapid erosion and sedimentation. While a number of studies on hazards  have looked into the physical processes associated with these disasters\, investigations including impact assessments on both livelihoods and ecosystems\, especially with the inclusion of local experiences and knowledge\, are largely lacking. Under a completely different climate regime\, Bhutan faces similar challenges in remoter headwaters. Multiple studies have documented devastating events and their impacts in the region; however\, transdisciplinary approaches to address these are lacking.\n  \nAgenda\nArrival and orientation – Sunday\, 27 March 2022  \n\n\n\nTime\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n17:00 – 17:30\nRegistration\n\n\n18:00 – 20:00\nIntroduction and orientation\n Reception dinner\n Networking\n\n\n\nDay 1 – Monday\, 28 March 2022\n\n\n\nTime\nProgramme\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n12:30-13:30\nLunch\n\n\n\n13:30–14:00\nWelcome remarks\n Opening remarks\n Introduction to the program\nAbubakr Muhammad\, LUMS\n Tahira Yasmin\, PIASA\n Amina Maharjan\, ICIMOD\n\n\n14:00–14:15\nPresentation of the Cryosphere and Society TWG Project\nGuy Howard\, University of Bristol\n\n\n14:15–14:45\nIntroduction to the social science methods (quantitative and qualitative) in exploring and understanding of cryosphere hazards\nRehmat Karim\, KIU\n Adian Flint\, University of Bristol\n\n\n14:45–15:15\nIntroduction to data collection from the physical side and presentation of preliminary findings\nGaree Khan\, KIU\n Jeremy Phillips\, University of Bristol\n\n\n15:15–15:45\nPresentation of the study in Bhutan\n (Refreshments)\nDeki Choden\, Royal University of Bhutan\n Chogyel Wangmo\, Royal University of Bhutan\n\n\n15:45–16:15\nPresentation on previous cryo-hazard work in UIB – new developments\, processes\, and methods\nJakob Friedrich Steiner\, ICIMOD\n\n\n16:15–17:00\nDiscussion of synergies\n\n\n\n17:00–17:20\nHKH – Arctic connection: Experiences from linking research to indigenous knowledge\nJennifer Lukovich\, University of Manitoba\n\n\n\nDay 2 – Tuesday\, 29 March 2022\n\n\n\nTime\nProgramme\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n10:00–10:20\nGlacier-fed irrigation system vulnerabilities in UIB\nBashir Ahmad\, PARC\n\n\n10:20–10:40\nEnvironmental and ecological implications of cryosphere changes and rapid development on species/habitats in HKH region in Pakistan\nZulfiqar Ali\, Punjab University\n\n\n10:40–11:00\nThe Cryosphere – Water Nexus in the Pamir\nRoy Sidle\, Mountain Societies Research Institute\, University of Central Asia\n\n\n11:00–11:20\nTalk by AKAH\n Refreshments\nTBD\, AKAH\n\n\n11:20–11:40\nTBD\nSalar Ali\, University of Baltistan\n\n\n11:40–12:00\nSnow research in the Upper Indus Basin\nJawairia Ashfaq Ahmad\, LUMS\n\n\n12:00–13:00\nReview of tools to assess infrastructure risk to cryospheric hazards\nGuy Howard\, University of Bristol\, and\n Amina Maharjan\, ICIMOD\n\n\n13:00–14:00\nLunch break\n\n\n\n14:00–15:00\nReview of the LAHAR flow model\nJeremy Phillips\, University of Bristol\n\n\n15:00–16:00\nDiscussion around knowledge gaps and making science relevant for policy and practice\nAmina Maharjan\, ICIMOD\n\n\n16:00-16:45\nHUC’s TWGs and TWG on Cryosphere and Society\nChi Huyen Truong (Shachi)\, HUC-ICIMOD\n\n\n16:45–17:00\nClosing remarks\n Vote of thanks\nPhilippus Wester\, ICIMOD\n Bhawana Syangden\, ICIMOD URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/cryosphere-hazards-and-society-in-bhutan-and-pakistan-and-hucs-twg-on-cryosphere-and-society/ LOCATION:LUMS\, Lahore\, Pakistan\, Pakistan END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211222 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211224 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240902T102108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T100526Z UID:2295-1640131200-1640303999@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Himalayan University Consortium Nepal Country Chapter meeting DESCRIPTION:About the meeting\nThe Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) is a growing network of universities within and outside of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region\, aiming to promote regional and global collaboration in research and education for sustainable mountain futures. In Nepal\, two new members – Nepal Open University and Far Western University – have recently joined the Consortium\, bringing the total number of university members to six (out of 12 universities in the country). An increasing number of Nepali researchers have taken part in HUC’s capacity building programmes in the past two years. Some Nepali scholars have co-led various thematic working groups and cross-cutting workgroups. \nHUC’s previous country chapter meeting took place on 11-12 August 2018 in Pokhara\, generously hosted by Pokhara University. This country chapter meeting on 23 December 2021\, will be hosted by Kathmandu University at its Dhulikhel campus\, and will bring together Vice Chancellors (VCs)\, Deans and focal persons to review recent activities of the Consortium in the region and in Nepal and deliberate on the future and sustainability of the network. \nThis meeting is convened by Prof. Bim Prasad Shrestha\, HUC Steering Committee Member\, Kathmandu University\, and coordinated by the HUC Secretariat\, ICIMOD. \nView Flyer\n  \nObjectives\n\nReview current activities by HUC members\, Thematic Working Groups and fellows in Nepal\nDiscuss potential collaboration and synergy amongst HUC members in Nepal and between Nepal’s members and other Consortium’s members\nEngage University Grants Commissions Nepal in pursuit of mountain-focused\, HKH-specific higher education agenda of the Consortium\nHandover of the Steering Committee membership by the current Steering Committee member\, Prof. Bim Prasad Shrestha\, to the incoming SCM\, Prof. Tri Ratna Bajracharya\, Tribhuvan University\n\n  \nExpected participants\n\nVCs of HUC members and incoming members\nTwo representatives from each of HUC members\nRepresentatives of HUC Thematic Working Groups and fellows\nInvited guests from the University Grants Commissions and UNESCO Nepal\n\n  \nAgenda\n\n\n\nTime (NPT)\nProgramme\nFacilitators/ Resource persons\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, 22 December 2021\n\n\n14:00\nCheck-in at Himalaya Drishya Resort\, Dhulikhel\nAchala Sharma\, Programme Associate\, HUC\, ICIMOD\n\n\n17:30\nRegistration\nAchala Sharma\n\n\n18:00–20:00\n Orientation and reception dinner\n Welcome remarks by Bim Prasad Shrestha\,\n Kathmandu University\, HUC Steering Committee Member\n Introduction and expectations of participants\n HUC in Nepal through fellows’ perspectives \n\n Biraj Singh Thapa\, Kathmandu University\, Co-lead\, HUC Thematic Working Group on Energy\n Rashila Deshar\, Tribhuvan University\, Fellow and Grantee\n\n One participant from the workshop on Communicating science for policy making \n\n\n\nThursday\, 23 December 2021\n\n\n9:00\nTransfer from hotel to Kathmandu University Dhulikhel campus\nAchala Sharma\, ICIMOD\n\n\n9:30–9:40\nOpening remarks – Bhola Thapa\, Vice Chancellor\, Kathmandu University\nUddhab Pyakurel\, Associate Director\, Global Engagement Division\, Kathmandu University\n\n\n9:40–10:00\nThe role of University Grants Commission in nurturing excellence in higher education for Nepal – Bhim Prasad Subedi\, Chairperson\, UGC Nepal (TBC)\n UNESCO initiatives for SDG 4.7 – Balaram Timalsina\, Chief of Education\, UNESCO Nepal\n\n\n\n\nGroup photo\n\n\n\n10:00 – 11:30\nWorld Cafe: Exploring potential for collaborations amongst HUC members in Nepal\n Participants will rotate across four stations sharing information about their university\, focusing on thematic areas of research and training\, resources\, partnership\, and potential synergy.\n Coffee and refreshments will be served during the World Cafe\nSingh Thapa\, Kathmandu University;\n Amina Maharjan\, Senior Specialist Livelihoods & Migration\, Livelihoods\, ICIMOD; \n Rajesh Bahadur Thapa\, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Specialist\, Geospatial Solutions\, ICIMOD;\n Santosh Raj Pathak Partnership Officer\, Strategic Cooperation\, ICIMOD;\n Sunita Chaudhary\, Ecosystem Services Specialist\, Ecosystem Services\, ICIMOD\n\n\n11:30–12:00\nSummary of World Cafe\n 5 minutes for each station and 10 minutes for Q&A\n\n\n\n12:00–13:00 \nLunch break\n\n\n\n13:00–14:30\nParallel workgroup\n Group 1 – HUC Visioning Exercise\n Vice Chancellors\, Steering Committee Members and invited guests from UGC and UNESCO Nepal review half-way implementation of the HUC Strategy 2018-2025 and discuss medium future of the Consortium\, including sustainability pathway. \nBim P Shrestha\, Kathmandu University;\n Tri Ratna Bajracharya\, Professor\, Tribhuvan University;\n Madan Koirala\, Professor\, Tribhuvan University\, and\n Santosh R Pathak\n\n\n\nGroup 2 – Member consultation regarding higher education and graduate competency for sustainable mountain futures\n Focal persons and fellows to share information about their university and knowledge and experience on current and future curricula\nGanga Gautam\, Director\, Open and Distance Education Center (ODEC)\, Tribhuvan University;\n Amina Maharjan; Rajesh B Thapa; Sunita Chaudhary; Shachi Truong\n\n\n14:30–15:00\nPresentation of groupwork and discussion\n Summary of key action points\nBim P Shrestha and Tri Ratna Bajracharya\n\n\n15:00–15:30\nTea/coffee break\n\n\n\n15:30–16:30\nGlobal aspirations\, leadership transition\, and closing\n Rethinking Global in Higher Education in Nepal – Ashok Gurung\, Professor\, Julien J. Studley Graduate Program of International Affairs at the New School\, New York\, and HUC Steering Committee Member\n Revisit participants’ expectation of the meeting\n Handover of Steering Committee membership\n Closing remarks – Tri Ratna Bajracharya\n Votes of thanks – Chi H Truong\nUddhab Pyakurel URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/himalayan-university-consortium-nepal-country-chapter-meeting/ LOCATION:Dhulikhel\, Nepal\, Nepal ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/himalayan-university-consortium-nepal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211221 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211223 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240904T075633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T100552Z UID:2304-1640044800-1640217599@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Communicating science for policy making DESCRIPTION:About the workshop\nThe Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) is organizing a one-day workshop that will focus on repackaging scientific work into succinct\, accessible\, and understandable two-page policy briefs. The workshop will help participants – senior researchers and scholars in the natural and social sciences – understand policy formulation processes and effective means of reaching policy makers. Invited speakers – environmental journalists and policy makers – will share their experiences interacting with scientists and incorporating scientific findings in their work. Participants will learn how to synthesize research findings and recommendations to achieve desired outcomes at the policy level. \nVIEW FLYER \nBackground\nPolicy making is a complex\, interactive\, and iterative process influenced by diverse factors and interests. The impact of evidence generated by scientists – crucial to policy making – can remain limited if the evidence is not packaged well or effectively communicated to policy makers. Good science feeds impactful policies\, but given the vastly different mechanisms\, languages\, and mandates in the science and policy-making spheres\, it is important to bridge the divide with targeted\, effective communication. Scientific literature needs to be synthesized into accessible\, focused communication materials and delivered using new platforms and media so that policy makers can easily use to navigate through pressing issues. \nAgenda\nDay 1 – Tuesday\, 21 December 2021 \n\n\n\nTime (NPT)\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n14:00\nCheck-in at Himalaya Drishya Resort\, Dhulikhel – Achala Sharma\, ICIMOD\n\n\n17:00\nRegistration\n\n\n18:00-20:00\nOrientation – Achala Sharma\, ICIMOD\n Reception dinner\n\n\n20:00-21:00\nIntroduction of participants and speakers – Chi H Truong (Shachi)\, ICIMOD\n Keynote presentation on challenges and prospects of communicating scientific knowledge to policy makers – Alok K Bohara\, University of New Mexico\n\n\n\nDay 2 – Wednesday\, 22 December 2021 \n\n\n\nTime (NPT)\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n09:00-09:30\nTransfer from hotel to Kathmandu University Dhulikhel campus\n\n\n09:30–09:40\nOpening remarks – Chi H Truong (Shachi)\, ICIMOD\n bjectives of the workshop – Chandra Lal Pandey\, Kathmandu University\n\n\n09:40–10:00\nScience\, policy\, and practice: Experiences in urban planning – Kriti Kusum Joshi\, City Planning Commission\, Kathmandu Metropolitan City\n\n\n10:00–10:20\nMedia\, scientific knowledge\, and policy making: Reflections from Himalaya region – Ramesh Bhushal\, The Third Pole\n\n\n10:20–10:50\nGroup discussion\n\n\n10:50–11:00\nGroup photo and coffee break\n\n\n11:00–12:30\nsession 1\n How to repackage scientific writing into a two-page policy brief – Chandra Lal Pandey\, Kathmandu University\, and Rachana Chettri\, ICIMOD \n\n\n12:30–13:30\nLunch break\n\n\n13:30–14:30\nsession 2\n Presenting your research findings and bringing scientific knowledge into politics and policy making – Chandra Lal Pandey\, Kathmandu University\, and Ramesh Bhushal\, The Third Pole\n\n\n\nPractical session 3\n Writing desk and pairwise review – Chandra Lal Pandey\, Kathmandu University\, and Rachana Chettri\, ICIMOD\n Stakeholder Mapping – Simon Russell\, Policy Associate\, PolicyBristol\, The University of Brisotl\n Participants’ evaluation of the workshop\n Closing remarks: Reflections on bridging science–policy–practice – Mani Nepal\, ICIMOD URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/communicating-science-for-policy-making/ LOCATION:Dhulikhel\, Nepal\, Nepal ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/communicating-science-for-policy-making.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211108 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211109 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240904T092431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T100628Z UID:2333-1636329600-1636415999@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:How can technology help improve climate adaptation and resilience? DESCRIPTION:Background\nThe Walker Institute at the University of Reading\, a Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) Associate Member\, in partnership with Microsoft is organizing a side event at the UK Pavilion at COP26 Glasgow focusing on the role of technology in climate adaptation and resilience. Pema Gyamtsho\, Director General of ICIMOD\, and HUC Steering Committee chairpersons will highlight the use of technology in ICIMOD’s works for climate adaptation and resilience and HUC’s role in facilitating productive partnerships for climate action. \n\n\n\nName\nInstitutional affiliation\n\n\n\n\nAlberto Arribas-Herranz\nMicrosoft Sustainability Science Lead for Europe\n\n\nRosalind Cornforth\nDirector\, Walker Institute\, University of Reading\n\n\nPema Gyamtsho\nDirector General\, ICIMOD\n\n\nChair\n\n\nAndrew Harper\nSpecial Advisor on Climate Action\, UNHCR\n\n\n\nICIMOD programmes make use of technology to improve climate adaptation and resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalayas\n\nGeoKrishi\niHeritage\nKoshi Basin Information System URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/how-can-technology-help-improve-climate-adaptation-and-resilience/ LOCATION:UK Pavilion\, COP26 Glasgow\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/climate-adaptation-and-resilience.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211106 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240904T110017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T100745Z UID:2340-1636070400-1636156799@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Communicating indigenous and ancestral knowledge for climate actions in Amazonia\, Andes and Hindu-Kush Himalaya DESCRIPTION:Background\nThis learning café foregrounds the communication issues around indigenous and ancestral knowledge in the Andes\, the Amazon\, and the Himalaya to ensure that they are recognized and fully incorporated into state policies and actions in the fight against climate change. Through this session\, we seek to bring greater recognition of the efforts of indigenous peoples towards sustainability\, adaptation\, co-existence with nature\, stewardship\, and conservation.\n  \nObjectives\n\nExchange successful experiences in climate change adaptation through the application of indigenous and ancestral knowledge\, wisdom\, science\, and technology promoted in the Andes\, Peruvian Amazon\, and Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH).\nPresent common challenges of indigenous peoples and women in the face of climate change in Latin America as well as Asia.\nEnhance awareness of the threats to the collective rights of indigenous peoples by the Peruvian state’s policies and norms\, linked to the breakdown and dispossession of territories to prioritize activities that exacerbate the climate crisis. Propose the law of nature as a holder of rights and subject of protection.\nIntroduce communication needs and innovative methods in communicating indigenous and ancestral knowledge for climate action at the local level.\n\n  \nSession structure\nThe session will focus on two themes: (1) experiences\, challenges\, and threats concerning indigenous and ancestral knowledge and rights in the Amazon\, Andes\, and HKH and (2) communication methods to promote indigenous and ancestral knowledge for effective climate action and to address issues. \nThree ONAMIAP women leaders will share interventions on adaptation and mitigation that are being carried out in their respective territories and in the national context. Two of the speakers will communicate with supporting media material in their native language. English subtitles will be available. \nAdditionally\, the ONAMIAP’s legal advisor will share the experiences of indigenous women from the perspective of the Peruvian national legal framework on climate change. \nThe session will shed light on how indigenous women in the Andean and Amazonian areas of Peru have been using their knowledge\, science\, and ancestral technology for climate adaptation and mitigation. We will also reflect on the policies and the internal regulatory framework that the Peruvian state has been implementing to break and dispossess territories in favour of third parties\, thereby increasing and accelerating the climate crisis. In this context\, we seek to evaluate the progress and challenges by presenting proposals that seek to resolve conflicts from the perspective of indigenous rights\, the theoretical contributions of indigenous peoples about nature as a right holder and subject of protection\, and intercultural dialogue.\nThe session will introduce a local-level communication strategy for the effective dissemination of indigenous and ancestral knowledge and technology\, with a focus on developing compelling programmes for local radios\, appealing to young local broadcasters using local indigenous language. \nThis will be followed by an introduction to how photography or art can improve indigenous women’s communication skills at a graphic level so that they can transmit indigenous knowledge and their demands in an effective way to decision makers\, and thus contribute to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change. \nThis participatory dynamic is attractive for the participants because they will be able to learn or improve their ways of communicating\, creating greater margins of action for when there are situations of risk\, and the ability to have the rest of society as an audience\, especially the scientific community and the government. On the other hand\, it is attractive to the public because after generating that base of empathy during the café\, they will see the interaction and graphic work of the participating indigenous women\, seeing their messages first-hand. The session will be delivered in English and Spanish.\n  \nProgramme\nSpeakers \n\n\n\nName\nTheme/title\n\n\n\n\nMelania Canales\, President\, ONAMIAP\nPolitical and social context of Peru and the work of ONAMIAP in the area of climate change\n\n\nMayra Macedo\, OCIDMUSHI- ONAMIAP\nExperiences of indigenous women to help mitigate and adapt to climate change\n\n\nKaren Huere\, OMIASEC- ONAMIAP\nExperiences of indigenous women to help mitigate and adapt to climate change\n\n\nZulma Villa\, Legal advisor\, ONAMIAP\nThreats to indigenous peoples rights and challenges for the states in the face of climate change\n\n\nSuman Basnet\, President\, AMARC-Asia Pacific\nCreative methods for communicating indigenous and ancestral knowledge through community radios\n\n\nUdayan Mishra\, Knowledge Management and Networking Officer\, ICIMOD\nExpressing indigenous and ancestral knowledge through art and photography\n\n\n\nModerators \n\n\n\nName/Organization\nRole\n\n\n\n\nChi Huyen Truong\, Himalayan University Consortium (HUC)\nCo-facilitating the session and setting the scene \n\n\nBinaya Raj Shivakoti\, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)\nCo-facilitating the session and setting the scene URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/communicating-indigenous-and-ancestral-knowledge-for-climate-actions-in-amazonia-andes-and-hindu-kush-himalaya/ LOCATION:3rd Capacity-building Hub within COP26 (Blue zone) Glasgow\, UK\, United Kingdom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/communicating-indigenous-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211009 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211015 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240911T112019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T112958Z UID:2652-1633737600-1634255999@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Storying climes of the Himalaya\, Andes\, and Arctic: Anthropogenic water bodies\, multispecies vulnerability\, and sustainable living DESCRIPTION:Organizers: Himalayan University Consortium; In partnership with My Climate Risk\, a lighthouse activity of World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) \nCo-hosted by Royal Thimphu College (Royal University of Bhutan) and Yunnan University \nHimalayan University Consortium in partnership with My Climate Risk\, a lighthouse activity of World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) organizes a publishing workshop – Storying climes of the Himalaya\, Andes\, and Arctic: Anthropogenic water bodies\, multispecies vulnerability\, and sustainable living. Details of the publishing workshop are given below.  \nContext\nThe Himalaya\, the Andes\, and the Arctic/tundra play a critical role in the hydrological cycle of the earth with their waters (in both solid and liquid forms)\, and in shaping multispecies habitats and cultural heritages within the biospheres fed by their waters. At the same time\, they are experiencing new risks and degradation due to global climate change\, such as melting ice\, species extinction\, and radical transformations of ecosystems and livelihoods. As a global outreach effort of the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) for comparative studies of climate change in the earth’s altitudinal and latitudinal highlands\, this workshop invites social and natural scientists\, humanities scholars\, graduate students\, and development specialists to share their interdisciplinary-intended documentations and discussions of historical and contemporary narratives of climate knowledge in habitat-specific life communities in these three world regions.  \nWorkshop and publication formats\nConsisting of 4-5 thematic sessions\, the workshop is a combination of thematic keynote talks by prominent scientists and scholars\, individual presentations of original research papers\, and peer discussions. The workshop organizers are committed to co-exploring the multifaceted meanings of clime and climate change\, and creatively co-producing comparative implications from the interdisciplinary thought-exchanges among participants in both theoretical and policy terms. At the conclusion of the workshop\, the designated publishing editors will work closely with participants to revise their papers for publication as a journal special issue or an edited book. Please refer the event brochure for details on the keynote speakers and conveners.    \nTopical themes\nFramed by the interconnected topical themes of water bodies (glaciers\, lakes\, and rivers)\, multispecies vulnerability (humans\, animals\, plants\, culturally animated landforms\, and traditionally revered deities and supernatural beings)\, and knowledge of sustainable living (local and global)\, we welcome papers addressing\, but not limited to\, the following topics contextualized in watery climes: indigenous histories of water\, human affective consciousness of water\, climate knowledge in indigenous meteorology\, local memories as proxies of climate change\, local climate knowledge absent the word “climate”\, climate incarnate as seasons and weather\, mountains as water bodies\, the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau as a monsoon maker\, geopoetics of glaciers\, nonhuman nations/geographies\, multispecies relational ontology\, the Little Ice Age (1300s-1800s) and human/nonhuman migrations\, modern hyperseparation of water and land\, anthropogenic effects of modern borders\, conservation values of indigenous animistic landforms and water bodies\, water as an agent of environmental peacebuilding\, and emerging new environmental ethics.   CONCEPT NOTEAGENDA \n\nConveners\n\n\nDan Smyer Yu\nKuige Professor of Ethnology\, Yunnan University\nInternational Faculty Member\, University of Cologne \nDan Smyer Yu is the Kuige Professor of Ethnology\, School of Ethnology and Sociology and the National Centre for Borderlands Ethnic Studies in Southwest China at Yunnan University\, and an international faculty member of the University of Cologne\, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Davis in 2006. Currently he is the co-lead of HUC’s Thematic Working Group on Himalayan Environmental Humanities\, an elected board member of International Society for the Study of Religion\, Nature and Culture\, a member of the Advisory Board of Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology\, and the Series Editor of Routledge Environment\, Multispecies Indigeneity and Borderland Series. He is the author of Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place\, Memorability\, Eco-aesthetics (De Gruyter 2015)\, and the co-editor of Trans-Himalayan Borderlands: Livelihoods\, Territorialities\, Modernities (Amsterdam University Press 2017)\, Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity\, Commoning\, Sustainability (Routledge 2021)\, and Yunnan-Burma-Bengal Corridor Geographies: Protean Edging of Habitats and Empires (Routledge 2021). \n\nArupjoyoti Saikia\nProfessor\, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences\nIndian Institute of Technology Guwahati \nArupjyoti Saikia is the Professor of History in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His teaching and research interests are in the field of Assam’s economic and environmental history. A post-doctoral fellow of Yale University\, he has held visiting fellow positions at Cambridge University; University of London; Indian Institute of Advanced Studies\, Shimla; and University of Calcutta. \nHis book The Unquiet River: An Environmental History of the Brahmaputra (Oxford University Press\, 2019) was short-listed for Kamala Devi Chattopadhayay Book Award in 2020 and long listed for Atta Galatta– Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize. This book got Honorable Mention for Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize in 2021 by the Association of Asian Studies. Saikia’s other published works include Forests and Ecological History of Assam\, 1826-2000 (Oxford University Press\, 2011) and A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam since 1900 (Rutledge\, 2014). \n\nJelle J.P. Wouters\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Social Sciences\nRoyal Thimphu College \nJelle J.P Wouters is a social anthropologist and the Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences\, Royal Thimphu College\, Bhutan. He holds an M.Pil. in social anthropology from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the NorthEastern Hill University\, Shillong\, where he was also a Wenner-Gren grantee. Prior to joining RTC in 2015\, he taught at Sikkim Central University\, India\, and was a visiting faculty at Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen\, Germany\, under the “Excellence Initiative” of the German Research Foundation. He is the author of In the shadows of Naga Insurgency (OUP 2018) and Nagas as a society against voting and other Essay (Highlander Books 2019)\, and the co-editor of Nagas in the 21st Century (Highlander Books 2017) and Democracy in Nagaland: Tribes\, Traditions\, and Tensions (Highlander Books 2018). \nKeynote profiles\n\nSunil Amrith\nRenu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History\nDepartment of History\, Yale University \nSunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History\, and current chair of the South Asian Studies Council. His research focuses on the movements of people and the ecological processes that have connected South and Southeast Asia. Amrith’s areas of interest include environmental history\, the history of migration\, and the history of public health. He is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow\, and recipient of the 2016 Infosys Prize in Humanities. Amrith’s most recent book\, Unruly Waters (Basic Books and Penguin UK\, 2018)\, was shortlisted for the 2019 Cundill Prize\, and was reviewed in Nature\, The Economist\, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Review of Books. His previous book\, Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants (Harvard University Press\, 2013) was awarded the American Historical Association’s John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History in 2014\, and was selected as an Editor’s Choice title by the New York Times Book Review. He is also the author of Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press\, 2011)\, and Decolonizing International Health: South and Southeast Asia\, 1930-1965 (Palgrave\, 2006)\, as well as articles in journals including the American Historical Review\, Past and Present\, The Lancet and Economic and Political Weekly. Amrith serves on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review and Modern Asian Studies\, and he is one of the series editors of the Princeton University Press book series\, Histories of Economic Life. \n\nAstrid Oberborbeck Andersen\nAssociate Professor of Techno Anthropology\nAalborg University\, Denmark \nAstrid Oberborbeck Andersen is the Associate Professor of techno-anthropology at Aalborg University. Her research centers on human environment relations and how to make anthropological perspectives matter in interdisciplinary research on ecosystems\, environmental relations\, and climatic crises\, as well as in public life. Her research is based on detailed and critical ethnography\, and she has extensive fieldwork experience in Peru and Greenland. She has published on themes such as water politics\, wildlife and environmental management\, technologies and controversies\, and multispecies relations. She is a coeditor of the book Anthropology Inside Out. Fieldworkers taking note (Sean Kingston Publishing 2020) and the forthcoming anthology Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Curiosity\, Collaboration\, and Critical Description in the Study of Multispecies Worlds (University of Minnesota Press\, 2022). Since 2018\, Astrid is chairing the board of Antropologforeningen i Danmark\, the Danish Anthropology Association. Anderson holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Copenhagen. \n\nKarsten Paerregaard\nProfessor Emeritus of Anthropology\nUniversity of Gothenburg\, Sweden \nKarsten Paerregaard is the Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at School of Global Studies. University of Gothenburg\, where he took up the position as chair Professor of Social Anthropology in 2012. He has previously worked at University of Copenhagen and the Danish Institute of International Studies. Paerregaard has been the principal investigator of several research projects and been granted research funding numerous times in Sweden and Denmark. He has also been research fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center\, Washington DC and at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study\, Uppsala and has twice been visiting Professor at University of Florida. Paerregaard’s ethnographic field research has been centered in Peru where he has worked for almost 40 years. \nIt also includes multi-sited fieldwork among Peruvian migrants in North America\, Southern Europe\, Japan\, and Argentina and Chile. Paerregaard’s research interests and publications cover such topics as ecology\, water and irrigation\, livelihoods\, social organization\, power and inequality\, religious denominations\, ritual activities\, ethnicity and indigeneity\, and cosmology and offering practices. \nCurrently\, his research is focused on the intersection between migration\, environment\, climate and culture in the Peruvian Andes. His books include Linking Separate Worlds. Urban Migrants and Rural Lives in Peru\, Berg (1997); Peruvians Dispersed. A Global Ethnography of Migration\, Lexington (2008); and Return to Sender. The Moral Economy of Peru’s Migrant Remittances\, UC Press(2015). He has recently completed a book manuscript titled Andean Meltdown. A Climate Ethnography of Water\, Power and Culture in Peru\, which examines the impact of climate change on water management and mountain worship in the Peruvian Andes and which currently is reviewed by an American university press. Paerregaard has also published extensively in international journals\, recently in HAU. Journal of Ethnographic Research (2020)\, Environmental Communication (2020)\, Water International (2020)\, Water Alternatives (2019)\, Climate and Development (2018) and WIRE’s Water (2018). URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/storying-climes-of-the-himalaya-andes-and-arctic-anthropogenic-water-bodies-multispecies-vulnerability-and-sustainable-living/ LOCATION:Online via MS Teams ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/storying-climes.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210820 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210821 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T052316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T101023Z UID:2440-1629417600-1629503999@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:From global to local: Bringing meaning to climate change through storylines DESCRIPTION:About the lecture\nAs part of his lecture series during the HUC Summer School – Bringing meaning to statistical practice in climate science using R\, Professor Ted Shepherd FRS\, will be speaking on climate change in local and global contexts\, and discussing ways to bring meaning to climate change at the local scale in the form of “storylines”.\nVIEW FLYER\n  \nFrom Ted Shepherd –\nClimate change is a global phenomenon\, driven by global forces. Yet for each of us\, climate change manifests itself at a local scale\, and is shaped by the particular and contingent nature of our local environment\, including its human-managed aspects. As one proceeds from the global to the local scale\, the physical principles that are so powerful for providing a scientific explanation of climate change at the global scale lose much of their explanatory power. The Indian scholar Sheila Jasanoff has argued that the process of abstraction in climate science “detaches knowledge from meaning”. The Indian writer Amitav Ghosh suggests that in order to represent the “uncanny” nature of climate change\, we need to tell stories\, which are a traditional form of meaning-making in particular and contingent situations. In this lecture I will describe some ways of bringing meaning to climate change at the local scale in the form of “storylines”. \nAttendance is limited and by invitation only. If you are interested in attending\, please register here.\n  \nAbout the speaker\nTheodore Shepherd FRS\nGrantham Professor of Climate Science\, Department of Meteorology\, University of Reading\, UK \nTheodore (Ted) Shepherd is a climate scientist who specializes in large-scale atmospheric dynamics\, including atmospheric circulation regimes. In recent years\, his interest has focused on how to characterize the uncertainty in this aspect of climate change\, including extreme events\, which led to the development of the ‘storyline’ approaches. Shepherd is engaged in inter-disciplinary collaborations and the challenge of bringing meaning to climate information. He also co-leads World Climate Research Programme’s new Lighthouse Activity ‘My Climate Risk’\, in which HUC is a collaborating partner. \nMy Climate Risk\nMy Climate Risk is an activity that develops and mainstreams a ‘bottom-up’ approach to regional climate risk\, starting from the decision context and enables relevant climate information to be brought into that context. The term ‘risk’ here refers to the combination of hazard\, vulnerability and exposure that is particular to a given regional context. By developing a new framework for assessing and explaining regional climate risk using all the available sources of climate information\, the activity aims to make climate information meaningful at the local scale. While the application of the framework will be specific and tailored to local concerns\, it will also be generic\, flexible and applicable across a number of region types and is intended to become a much-needed support for the development of climate services.\n  \nAbout the dicussant-and-moderator\nUlka Kelkar\nDirector\, Climate Programme\, World Resources Institute (WRI) India \nUlka Kelkar is an economist with two decades of experience in climate change research\, capacity building and outreach. She leads WRI India’s work on climate policy which aims to support India’s pathway to a climate-resilient low-carbon economy through judicious national policies\, carbon market mechanisms\, and effective implementation in states and cities. Before joining WRI India\, she worked as a consultant climate assessment specialist for the Asian Development Bank\, and as a research fellow at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE).\n  \nAgenda\n\n\n\nTime\nProgramme\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n13:45–13:50\nWelcome and introduction\nChi H Truong (Shachi)\,\n Programme Coordinator and Secretariat Lead\, The Himalayan University Consortium\, ICIMOD\n\n\n13:50–14:50\nFrom global to local: Bringing meaning to climate change through storylines\nTed Shepherd FRS\,\n Grantham Professor of Climate Science\, University of Reading\, UK\n\n\n14:50–15:00\nE-break \n\n\n\n15:00–15:45\nRoundtable discussion: Local perceptions of climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya\nModerated by:\n Ulka Kelkar\,\n Director\, Climate Programme\, World Resources Institute (WRI) India \n Panelists\n Shahrin Mannan\, Programme Coordinator-Resilience Programme\, International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)\, Dhaka\, Bangladesh\n Om Katel\, Dean\, Research and Industrial Linkages\, College of Natural Resources\, Royal University of Bhutan\n Santosh Nepal\, Water and Climate Specialist\, Water and Air\, ICIMOD\, Nepal URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/from-global-to-local-bringing-meaning-to-climate-change-through-storylines/ LOCATION:Online via MS Teams ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/global-to-local.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210818 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210827 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240911T110743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240915T051903Z UID:2640-1629244800-1630022399@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Bringing meaning to statistical practice in climate science using R DESCRIPTION:Objective\nThe Himalayan University Consortium’s (HUC) intensive summer school programme aims to provide participants with an overview of key statistical concepts in environmental science\, and hands-on experience in the use of statistical methods for weather and climate data analysis using R.\nParticipants will learn how to apply statistical methods and R to analyze weather and climate data of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH).\nThe Summer School will be held over seven days\, punctuated by a self-study break. The programme is also expected to serve as a springboard for the HUC Thematic Working Group on My Climate Risk\, as part of the WCRP’s Lighthouse Activity of the same name\, in which HUC is a collaborating partner. \nExpected participants\nHUC’s Summer School caters to undergraduate students of advanced years or MSc/ME/MA students who have completed at least one course in statistics\, and who are interested in pursuing study in climate science. The programme is also open for students and early-career faculty members who wish to sharpen their analytical and critical thinking skills and meaning-making in the use of statistics.\nHUC’s Summer School caters to undergraduate students of advanced years or MSc/ME/MA students have completed at least one course in statistics\, and who are interested in pursuing studies in climate science. The programme is also open for students and early-career faculty members who wish to sharpen their analytical and critical thinking statistical skills.\nThis training is open to students from Bhutan\, Nepal\, and Pakistan. From each country\, fifteen participants will be selected on the basis of merit.\nThe summer school is free of charge for selected participants. Those who are willing to travel and stay at the in-person locations during the programme will be provided with modest logistics support.\nFemale students and faculty and members from under-represented communities are strongly encouraged to apply.\n  \nPlatform and in-person sessions\nThe programme will adopt a hybrid modality – combining online lectures and in-person sessions at the co-hosting institutions. Ted Shepherd will be delivering virtual lectures. In-person sessions in Bhutan will be conducted by Dechen Lhamo Gyeltshen\, supervised by Om Katel\, Niraj Poudyal in Nepal\, and Lubna Naz in Pakistan.\nThe in-person component will be organized with COVID-19 precautions in consideration of participants’ health and safety. We will implement social distancing norms during the programme and expect that participants will follow all public health guidelines and take personal safety precautions.\n \nFLYER \n\nInstructors/Facilitators\n\n\nTheodore Shepherd FRS\nGrantham Professor of Climate Science\nUniversity of Reading\, UK \nTheodore (Ted) Shepherd is a climate scientist who specializes in large-scale atmospheric dynamics\, including atmospheric circulation regimes. In recent years\, his interest has focused on how to characterize the uncertainty in this aspect of climate change\, including extreme events\, which led to the development of ‘storyline’ approaches. Shepherd is engaged in inter-disciplinary collaborations and the challenge of bringing meaning to climate information. He also co-leads the World Climate Research Programme’s new Lighthouse Activity ‘My Climate Risk’. \n\nDechen Lhamo Gyeltshen\nUniversity of Reading\n(In charge at the CNR Campus\, Bhutan) \nDechen Lhamo Gyeltshen is a third-year student\, studying BSc Meteorology and Climate at the University of Reading\, UK. She graduated from Yangchenphug Higher Secondary School (Thimphu\, Bhutan) in 2017\, with a focus on science and math. Following her passion for space weather and extra-terrestrial meteorology\, Gyeltshen pursued Meteorology\, while also picking up an interest in programming (Python and R) and climate change studies.\nShe will be a teaching assistant to Ted Shepherd for this summer programme. \n\nOm Katel\nDean\, Research and Industrial Linkages\nCollege of Natural Resources\, Royal University of Bhutan \nOm Katel teaches courses on natural resources management\, statistics\, climate change adaptation and mitigation\, integrated watershed management\, and other related courses on environmental conservation. He is also a visiting researcher at the Nagoya University\, Japan\, and a fellow of HUC’s Asia Pacific Water Leadership Programme in April 2018\, which was funded by South Asia Water Initiative II (The World Bank). Katel has a wide range of research interests and substantial experiences in conservation and management\, climate change adaptation\, and the dynamics of ecosystems linking climate change and development. \n\nNiraj Poudyal\nAssistant Professor of Econometrics\,\nProgram Coordinator (Economics) Kathmandu University School of Arts \nNiraj Poudyal teaches econometrics and macroeconomics at the graduate and undergraduate level. His research areas include statistical adequacy of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium\, and dynamic models based on multivariate student’s t distribution and time series analysis. Poudyal also teaches R with econometrics and data visualization sessions and developed R packages for estimating models. He has extensive experience in running computationally heavy simulations in R for identification tests and risk forecasting in financial markets. He authored the book ‘Disability Atlas for Nepal’ with GIS mapping techniques within R. Poudyal is a PhD graduate from Virginia Tech\, USA with a focus on econometrics. \n\nLubna Naz\nAssistant Professor at Department of Economics\nInstitute of Business Administration Karachi\, Pakistan \nLubna Naz teaches advanced economic statistics\, applied economics\, and development economics to undergraduate and graduate students. Naz set up the Interdisciplinary Research and Statistical Analysis Lab (KU-LISA) at the University of Karachi in collaboration with the University of Colorado Boulder\, USA\, and has conducted workshops on data visualization\, research proposal writing\, and survey data analysis at KU-LISA. She has published her research on environmental health\, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission\, child nutrition\, and maternal healthcare in reputable international journals. Naz has a Ph.D. in Economics from Pakistan Institute of Development Economics\, Islamabad. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/bringing-meaning-to-statistical-practice-in-climate-science-using-r/ LOCATION:Online and in-person END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210608 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210609 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240722T031150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T060416Z UID:1470-1623110400-1623196799@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Modelling Surface Flow Hazards DESCRIPTION:About the training\nThe Himalayan Universities Consortium (HUC) and University of Bristol are pleased to announce a series of interactive teleconference training sessions on the use of flow modelling for hazard assessment in mountain environments. This training is a part of HUC’s Thematic Working Group on Cryosphere and Society. The training will take place over four online sessions. The first one-hour ‘taster’ session will introduce the participants to common surface flow hazards including glacial lake outburst floods\, debris flows\, lahars (volcanic mudflows) and flash floods\, and principles of modelling for hazard assessment. The next three sessions (2 hours each) will include: an introduction to the mathematical description of flow in shallow layers; the parameterisation of sediment flow processes into mathematical models; and interactive instructions on the use of LaharFlow\, a freely available hazard modelling framework\, including setting up simulations and post-processing results. \n  \nKey dates\n8 June 2021(13:45-14:45 NST): One hour ‘taster’ session\, open to public.\n21–23 June 2021: Three 2-hour sessions for those who completed the ‘taster’ session. Limited seats are available. \n  \nExpected participants\nThe training is targeted towards those working in operational assessment of flow hazards or are conducting related academic research. A background in quantitative physical science to a degree level is required\, along with a stable internet connection. Some experience with GIS (ideally QGIS) is helpful for the post-processing model output. Women and members of under-represented communities are strongly encouraged to take part. Interested participants are required to fill the form here. \nAbout LaharFlow\nLaharFlow is a modelling framework for hazard assessment that can be applied to shallow erosive surface flows of water and sediment\, including glacial lake outburst floods\, debris flows\, lahars (volcanic mudflows)\, flash floods and wet landslides. LaharFlow solves the shallow layer equations including inertial terms (essential for energetic flows on steep topography) and incorporates processes of substrate erosion and particle deposition that are strong controls on the dynamics of energetic natural sediment flows. The LaharFlow webtools have in-built global 30 m SRTM topography\, where experienced users can upload their own higher resolution topographic mapping. \nKeynote speakers\nJeremy C Phillips\nReader in Physical Volcanology\, School of Earth Sciences\, University of Bristol \nJeremy C Phillips is a physical volcanologist with a physical science background in fluid dynamics and volcanic processes\, including fundamental processes of explosive volcanic eruptions\, and multiphase environmental flows. His broad interests include environmental hazards\, risk\, and resilience. Phillips’ main career focus has been the prediction of volcanic hazards and their impacts. He now works across disciplines to integrate hazard assessment with social and physical vulnerability\, risk management structures and com-munity engagement\, with social scientists\, engineers\, mathematicians\, and statisticians. Phillips is currently involved in multidisciplinary projects on hazard assessment. These projects include the development of freely available hazard assessment tools for volcanic plumes and lahar hazard\, and in-country workshops with communities and stakeholders. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/modelling-surface-flow-hazards/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/modelling-surface-thumbnail.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210520 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T053350Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T101152Z UID:2447-1621209600-1621468799@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:HUC at the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development DESCRIPTION:Objectives\nHimalayan University Consortium (HUC) is participating at the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development. This conference will be held virtually from 17 to 19 May 2021. \nHUC will set up a virtual booth\, “Building an impactful alliance for sustainable mountain education in the Hindu Kush Himalaya“\, showcasing a dynamic and effective way to build impactful partnerships to make higher education a lever of change for sustainable mountain development in the Hindu Kush Himalaya\, one of the regions most affected by climate change and other global processes. The booth will showcase printed media (posters and flyers) and a short video on the HUC journey. \nThe event will host a 30 minute live session on Tuesday\, 18 May 2021 (13:00-13:30 CET)\, with panelists sharing inter-related stories about HUC and its role in Sustainable Mountain Education in the HKH region. The panelists are: \nChi H Truong\, HUC Secretariat Lead\, who will speak on building a strong lasting partnership through increasing ownership and shared leadership among the Consortium’s members \nAnne Zimmermann\, CDE University of Bern and SME Task Force member\, who will speak on operating a task force linking global top-notch experts in ESD with senior educators and administrators of rich regional expertise \nBrian Stout and Hayley Saul of Western Sydney University who will share their stories on HUC thematic working groups through a pre-recorded video \nYangka\, Director of Academic Affairs\, Royal University of Bhutan\, who will speak on the imperative of mountain-focused\, HKH-specific curriculum and regional cooperation in research and training \nSara Nowreen\, Bangladesh University of Science and Technology\, an HUC fellow\, who will speak on empowering faculty through experiential learning and continued provision of support for ESD curriculum uptake URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/huc-at-the-unesco-world-conference-on-education-for-sustainable-development/ LOCATION:Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/huc-at-the-unesco.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210407 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210410 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T101547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T110403Z UID:2574-1617753600-1618012799@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Renewable energy transitions : A comparative assessment of the Hindu Kush Himalaya\, Andes\, and Alps DESCRIPTION:The workshop will be led by Christopher Scott (Udall Center\, University of Arizona\, USA) and jointly coordinated by Chi H Truong (Shachi\, ICIMOD)\, and Carolina Adler (MRI\, University of Bern\, Switzerland).\n  \nBackground\nThe impacts of climate change in mountain regions are accentuated by elevation-dependent warming and precipitation variability higher than in other regions\, coupled with greater dependence of mountain communities on local sources of energy and other resources. Energy systems are central to climate change both as drivers and responses. The development and use of energy resources\, particularly fossil fuels\, are the principal causes of global warming. At the same time\, climate-change impacts across a range of social and ecological systems require mitigation and adaptation in which less carbon-intensive energy uses play a central role. Climate-change dynamics are not uniformly distributed globally\, with temperature rise occurring differentially higher in polar and mountain regions. Especially in mountain regions\, energy-use alternatives can be constrained due to inadequate infrastructure\, remoteness\, and reliance on traditional forms of energy that may be difficult to diversify. \nThis workshop\, jointly sponsored by ICIMOD’s Himalayan University Consortium and the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI)\, and coordinated by the University of Arizona’s Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy\, is a community-led activity bringing together experts including young professionals to connect and synthesize existing data\, information\, publications\, and/or other forms of knowledge to provide new insights on the state of mountains and renewable energy transitions in a global context. \nObjectives\nThis virtual workshop aims to synthesize current understanding and address future challenges related to energy transitions in mountain regions with an emphasis on renewable energy in the context of climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya\, Andes\, and Alps. \nWorkshop participants will also address current challenges in mountain regions related to climate-change impacts on energy systems with an emphasis on renewables and transitions towards carbon neutrality as well as to present and discuss adaptation solutions by mountain communities and economic sectors.\n  \nParticipants\nThe workshop will be limited to 50 registered participants\, including 15 invited experts and 35 participants. Interested researchers\, policy makers\, and practitioners from the HKH countries should apply via the HUC Portal by 1 March 2021. \nFor applicants from Latin America and Europe\, and for those who are based elsewhere but are working on relevant issues in the Andes and Alps\, the deadline is 10 March 2021. \nNotification of acceptance will be communicated by 16 March 2021. \nYoung and female professionals\, those from under-represented communities\, and graduate students are especially encouraged to apply. \nApplications from past HUC fellows who successfully completed the Water Energy Food Nexus: Adaptive Response to Regional Hindu Kush Himalaya Challenges\, 19 May – 4 June 2020 course will receive designated merit points in the selection process.\n  \nAgenda\nTime: 19:45–22:15 (NPT)\, 16:00–18:30 (CEST)\, 07:00–09:30 (U.S. MST)\nDay 1: 7 April 2021 \n\n\n\nTime(NPT)\nTime(CEST)\nTime(MST)\nTopic\nSpeakers/Facilitators\n\n\n\n\n19:45-19:55 \n16:00-16:10 \n7:00-7:10 \nWelcome remarks \nPema Gyamtsho\, ICIMOD\n Carolina Adler\, Mountain Research Initiative (MRI)\n \n\n\n19:55-20:15 \n16:10-16:30 \n7:10-7:30 \nWorkshop overview\, participants and regions represented \nChristopher Scott\, University of Arizona\n\n\n20:15-20:30 \n16:30-16:45 \n7:30-7:45 \nMountain regions and global headwaters \nDaniel Viviroli\, University of Zurich\n\n\n20:30-20:45 \n16:45-17:00 \n7:45-8:00 \nDiscussion and Q&A \nModerator: Padmendra Shrestha\, University of Arizona\n\n\n20:45-21:00 \n17:00-17:15 \n8:00-8:15 \nThe role of hydropower in Switzerland’s energy strategy \nDaniel Viviroli\, University of Zurich\n\n\n21:00-21:15 \n17:15-17:30 \n8:15-8:30 \nDiscussion and Q&A \nModerator: Padmendra Shrestha\, University of Arizona\n\n\n21:15-21:30 \n17:30-17:45 \n8:30-8:45 \nBreak \n\n\n\n21:30-21:45 \n17:45-18:00 \n8:45-9:00 \nEnergy ecosystem for the transition towards a low carbon society in HKH region: Opportunities and\n Partnerships \nBiraj Singh Thapa\, Kathmandu University\n\n\n21:45-21:55 \n18:00-18:10 \n9:00-9:10 \nDiscussion and Q&A \nModerator: Sebastián Riera Yankeliovich\,Universidad Nacional de Cuyo\n\n\n21:55-22:10 \n18:10-18:25 \n9:10-9:25 \nBreakout group discussion\, synthesis \n\n\n\n22:10-22:15 \n18:25-18:30 \n9:25-9:30 \nAnnouncements for Day 2 \n\n\n\n22:15 \n18.30 \n9:30 \nAdjourn \n\n\n\n\nDay 2: 8 April 2021 \n\n\n\nTime(NPT)\nTime(CEST)\nTime(MST)\nTopic\nSpeakers/Facilitators\n\n\n\n\n19:45-20:00 \n16:00-16:15 \n7:00-7:15 \nEnergy transition in the Mendoza\, Argentina Andes: Regional insights \nSebastián Riera Yankeliovich\,Universidad Nacional de Cuyo\n\n\n20:00-20:15 \n16:15-16:30 \n7:15-7:30 \nDiscussion and Q&A \nFabian Drenkhan\, Imperial College London\n\n\n20:15-20:30 \n16:30-16:45 \n7:30-7:45 \nGovernance of complex trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation in the Swiss Alps \nElke Kellner\,Swiss Federal Institute for Forest\, Snow and Landscape Research WSL \n\n\n20:30-20:45 \n16:45-17:00 \n7:45-8:00 \nDiscussion and Q&A \nModerator: Sarala Khaling\,ATREE\n\n\n20:45-21:00 \n17:00-17:15 \n8:00-8:15 \nThe journey to renewable Energy: Narratives from Bhutan and HKH \nMedha Bisht\, South Asian University\n\n\n21:00-21:15 \n17:15-17:30 \n8:15-8:30 \nDiscussion and Q&A \nModerator: Elke Kellner\, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest\, Snow and Landscape\n Research WSL\n\n\n21:15-21:30 \n17:30-17:45 \n8:30-8:45 \nBreak \n\n\n\n21:30-21:45 \n17:45-18:00 \n8:45-9:00 \nWater resource conflicts and hydropower in the tropical Andes: Governance and feasibility of\n multi-purpose projects \nFabian Drenkhan\, Imperial College London\n\n\n21:45-21:55 \n18:00-18:10 \n9:00-9:10 \nDiscussion and Q&A \nModerator: Padmendra Shrestha\, University of Arizona\n\n\n21:55-22:10 \n18:10-18:25 \n9:10-9:25 \nBreakout group discussion\, synthesis \n\n\n\n22:10-22:15 \n18:25-18:30 \n9:25-9:30 \nAnnouncements for Day 3 \n\n\n\n22:15 \n18:30 \n9:30 \nAdjourn \n\n\n\n\nDay 3: 9 April 2021 \n\n\n\nTime(NPT)\nTime(CEST)\nTime(MST)\nTopic\nSpeakers/Facilitators\n\n\n\n\n19:45-20:00 \n16:00-16:15 \n7:00-7:15 \nHydropower in the HKH: Threats and Opportunities in the Face of Climate Change \nKasvi Singh\, TERI School of Advanced Studies\n\n\n20:00-20:15 \n16:15-16:30 \n7:15-7:30 \nDiscussion and Q&A \nModerator: Sebastián Vicuña\, Pontificia Universidad\, Católica de Chile\n\n\n20:15-20:30 \n16:30-16:45 \n7:30-7:45 \nChallenges and opportunities of hydropower in the Chilean Andes in a climate change world \nSebastián Vicuña\,Pontificia Universidad\, Católica de Chile \n\n\n20:30-20:45 \n16:45-17:00 \n7:45-8:00 \nDiscussion and Q&A \nModerator: Biraj Singh Thapa\, Kathmandu University\n\n\n20:45-21:00 \n17:00-17:15 \n8:00-8:15 \nHimalayan floods raise questions on the sustainability of hydropower \nPadmendra Shrestha\, University of Arizona\n\n\n21:00-21:15 \n17:15-17:30 \n8:15-8:30 \nDiscussion and Q&A \nModerator: Daniel Viviroli\, University of Zurich\n\n\n21:15-21:30 \n17:30-17:45 \n8:30-8:45 \nBreak \n\n\n\n21:30-21:45 \n17:45-18:00 \n8:45-9:00 \nWorkshop synthesis \nChristopher Scott\, University of Arizona\n\n\n21:45-22:10 \n18:00-18:25 \n9:00-9:25 \nPlenary session: pathways of workshop proceedings \n\n\n\n22:10-22:15 \n18:25-18:30 \n9:25-9:30 \nClosing remarks \nChi Huyen Truong (Shachi)\, ICIMOD\n\n\n22:15 \n18:30 \n9:30 \nAdjourn \n\n\n\n\n  \nSpeakers/Facilitators\n\n\n\nBiraj Singh Thapa\nAssistant Professor\, Department of Mechanical Engineering\, Kathmandu University\n\n\nCarolina Adler\nExecutive Director\, Mountain Research Initiative (MRI)\n\n\nChi Huyen Truong (Shachi)\nProgram coordinator\, Himalayan University Consortium (HUC)\n\n\nChristopher Scott\nDirector\, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and Professor\, School of Geography and Development\, University of Arizona\n\n\nDaniel Viviroli\nResearch group leader\, Mountain Hydrology in Hydrology & Climate unit\, Department of Geography\, University of Zurich\n\n\nElke Kellner\nPostdoctoral researcher\, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest\, Snow and Landscape Research WSL\n\n\nFabian Drenkhan\nRAHU Project\, Imperial College London\n\n\nKasvi Singh\nMaster’s student\, Economics (specializing in Environmental and Resource Economics)\, TERI School of Advanced Studies\n\n\nMedha Bisht\nSenior Assistant Professor\, Department of International Relations\, South Asian University\n\n\nPadmendra Shrestha\nPhD student\, School of Geography\, Development & Environment\, University of Arizona\n\n\nSarala Khaling\nRegional Director\, Eastern Himalaya/Northeast India\, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology & the Environment (ATREE)\, India\n\n\nSebastian Riera Yankeliovich\nPostdoctoral researcher AACREA-CONICET\, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo\n\n\nSebastian Vicuna\nDirector\, Centro de Cambio Global\, Associate Professor\, School of Engineering\, Pontificia Universidad\, Catolica de Chile\n\n\n\n  \nWorkshop proceedings\nThe workshops served to highlight lessons learned and ways forward\, drawing on multiple perspectives of researchers\, practitioners\, agencies and NGOs in an effort to bridge the experiences and challenges of critical mountain regions globally. \nChallenges include: supply diversification including carbon neutrality and beyond; demand management (including consumptive and productive energy uses and associated equity concerns); energy justice with equity in access and inclusive decision-making; climate resilience for carbon mitigation with transformative adaptation. \nHydropower in an energy system uniquely identified with mountain. How is this understood in transition terms (as bridge energy to low-impact renewables\, or low/zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels\, or both\, or other)? The scale of hydropower (and siting on smaller streams within a basin-wide perspective) vs. long-term feasibility of HP plants is critically important. Hydropower should not be thought of just as government projects but needs to include local control and ownership. The planning stage of hydropower development must move toward implementation\, with special attention to operations and maintenance\, rural power supply\, environmental protection\, relocation/resettlement with social equity and rural revitalization. \nGovernance of energy transitions involves\, among other factors\, decision-making\, decentralization\, risk impact and assessment. Overcoming energy poverty will require expanded access\, localization\, and community-centered development with emphasis on sustainable livelihoods and sustainable development frameworks. \nSUMMARY PRESENTATION\nDOWNLOAD FLYER URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/renewable-energy-transitions-a-comparative-assessment-of-the-hindu-kush-himalaya-andes-and-alps/ LOCATION:Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/renewable-energy-transitions.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210311 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210312 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T054627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T101402Z UID:2456-1615420800-1615507199@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Changes in the cryosphere: Building resilience to natural hazards in the HKH DESCRIPTION:Background\nThis workshop is an initial activity to support the establishment of a Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) thematic working group on cryosphere and society. The workshop’s primary focus is on changes in the cryosphere\, the increased risks and hazards resulting from these changes\, and the ways in which communities can become resilient and cope with these risks. This is possible through the integration of social and physical science with local knowledge systems to design interventions that enhance resilience of communities. The workshop aims to provide a platform for University of Bristol (UoB) and HUC members to share their experiences on the topic and identify key areas for future collaboration. \nObjectives\n\nFacilitate exchange of knowledge and experience and between HUC members and University of Bristol on resilience in high mountain communities\nIdentify opportunities for collaboration on cryosphere and society\nIdentify areas and programmes where small-scale collaborative activities can be initiated between UoB and HUC members URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/changes-in-the-cryosphere-building-resilience-to-natural-hazards-in-the-hkh/ LOCATION:Online via MS Teams END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201213 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T095754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T090503Z UID:2568-1606694400-1607817599@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Storying the sustainable intelligence of the Earth in the new Himalaya: Symbiotic indigeneity and transboundary commons DESCRIPTION:Led by: Dan Smyer Yü (Yunnan University) and Erik de Maaker (Leiden University) \nCo-organized by: HUC Thematic Working Group on Trans-Himalayan Environmental Humanities and National Centre for Borderlands Ethnic Studies in Southwest China at Yunnan University (NaCBES) \nIn partnership with: Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology\, Leiden University; University of Warwick; and Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology \nThe following two webinars are part of a two-week intensive virtual seminar/publishing workshop. These webinars are open to the public on a first-come-first-served basis. \nPUBLIC LECTURE 1\n30 November 2020\, 12:45–14:15 NPT (UTC+05:45)  \nM?kua Valley on the island of O‘ahu is a place where snail conservation\, the US Army\, and K?naka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) claims to access land and cultural sites are brought into dynamic tension. Over roughly the past 100 years\, the Army has used this valley for live-fire and other exercises\, excluding people while also blowing up and burning the habitat of critically endangered land snails and other species. Snails and local people are drawn together here into a powerful multispecies solidarity centred on efforts to conserve the biological and cultural heritage of this place. Importantly\, these efforts have also rippled out beyond the valley\, through not only the Army’s subsequent investment in snail conservation in Hawaii but also its ongoing activities in other parts of the Pacific region that continue to threaten snails and their peoples\, while also fostering their own dynamic forms of solidarity and resistance. This lecture will explore some of the complexities and compromises of conservation in the context of deep histories and ongoing realities of both colonization and militarization. \nAbout the speaker\nThom van Dooren is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and the Sydney Environment Institute\, University of Sydney\, and Professor II in the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities\, University of Oslo. His research and writing focus on some of the many philosophical\, ethical\, cultural\, and political issues that arise in the context of species extinctions and human entanglements with threatened species and places. \nHe is the author of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (2014)\, The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds (2019)\, and co-editor of Extinction Studies: Stories of Time\, Death\, and Generations (2017)\, all published by Columbia University Press. \nPUBLIC LECTURE 2\nLearning from life stories\n1 December 2020\, 19:45–21:15 NPT (UTC+05:45) \nLife stories provide unique insights into the everyday experiences\, attitudes\, and knowledge of people who are marginalized for political\, social\, economic\, or cultural reasons. They can also reveal the intimate relationship between human and non-human domains and the impossibility of separating these interactions. Yet this approach raises many challenges and can be hard to implement at scale. The impact of detailed qualitative interviews on interviewers as well as on those being interviewed is sometimes underestimated\, especially when dealing with socially and emotionally charged and traumatic experiences. The need to be aware of demographic and personality differences in addition to social norms relating to expressions of personal experience also requires sensitivity and reflection. However\, the proven benefits of developing empathetic modes of communication embedded in life story approaches make this a valuable\, but a highly complex and challenging tool for research as well as for community and individual empowerment. This talk will discuss examples from the broader Himalayan region of how and why life story research has been used to explore hidden histories and experiences\, as well as some of the methodological questions that arise. \nAbout the speaker\nMandy Sadan  is Associate Professor and Academic Director of Distance Learning Postgraduate Programmes\, School for Cross-faculty Studies – Global Sustainable Development; and Senior Research Fellow\, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. Sadan has been researching on and teaching about the borderlands of Myanmar for more than two decades and remains deeply committed to using her work to support the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals in these regions. She seeks to demonstrate the importance of historical and humanities-oriented research in supporting locally grounded sustainable development and peacebuilding\, especially politically\, educationally\, and culturally marginalized borderland communities. For this reason\, too\, she is passionate about the role that life story and oral history research can play in supporting local people to have a stronger voice in development policy. \nHer most recent collaborative projects\, funded through the British Academy Sustainable Development Program and the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)\, include “Sustainable Lives in Scarred Landscapes: Heritage\, Environment\, and Violence in the China-Myanmar Jade Trade” and “Drugs and (Dis)order: Building Sustainable Peacetime Economies in the Aftermath of War”. \nAGENDA\nFirst webinar – Monday\, 30 November 2020 | 12:45–14:45 NPT (UTC+05:45) \n\n\n\nDate\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n12:35–12:45\nParticipants log-in on Microsoft Teams\n\n\n12:45–12:55\nIntroduction – Chi H Truong (Shachi)\, Himalayan University Consortium\, ICIMOD\nWelcome remarks – Pema Gyamtsho\, Director General\, ICIMOD\n\n\nPublic lecture 1\nSpeaker: Thom van Dooren\, University of Sydney and University of Oslo\nDiscussant: Dan Smyer Yü\, Yunnan University\n\n\n12:55–13:00\nIntroduction of the virtual seminar-workshop and speaker – Dan Smyer Yu\n\n\n13:00–14:00\nMilitary snails: Multispecies solidarity in Hawaii – Thom van Dooren\n\n\n14:00–14:45\nDiscussion\nEnd of day 1\n\n\n\nSecond webinar – Tuesday\, 1 December 2020 | 19:45–21:15 NPT (UTC+05:45) \n\n\n\nDate\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n19:35–19:45\nParticipants log-in on Microsoft Teams\n\n\nPublic lecture 2\nSpeaker: Mandy Sadan\, University of Warwick\nDiscussant: Erik de Maaker\, Leiden University\n\n\n19:45–19:55\nIntroduction of the speaker – Erik de Maaker\n\n\n19:55–20:55\nLearning from life stories – Mandy Sadan\n\n\n20:55–21:15\nDiscussion\nEnd of day 2 and public keynote lectures\n\n\n\nDOWNLOAD FLYER URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/storying-the-sustainable-intelligence-of-the-earth-in-the-new-himalaya-symbiotic-indigeneity-and-transboundary-commons/ LOCATION:Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/storying-the-sustainable-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200519 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200605 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T092249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T101442Z UID:2561-1589846400-1591315199@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Water–energy–food nexus: Adaptive response to regional Hindu Kush Himalayan challenges DESCRIPTION:Background\nThis online course provides participants with conceptual understanding and applied knowledge on water\, energy\, and food systems\, with an emphasis on development in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. Drawing on the experience of the instructor Prof. Christopher Scott (Director of the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy\, University of Arizona\, USA; and ICIMOD Mountain Chair 2020–22) and globally recognized experts\, the interactive course will showcase new insights into the water–energy–food nexus. \nProgramme focus\nThe seminar will address the following list of topics: \n\nEnergy futures to meet agricultural and urban water demand\nWater resource needs for power generation using conventional fuels and renewables\nImplications and role of water and agriculture in the emerging carbon-neutral economy\nComparative energy- and water-based perspectives on efficiency and conservation\, and co-production of research and policy making on water\, energy\, and food\n\nThus\, seminar participants will learn about physical and social science approaches to water management and policy. \nWho is this course for?\nThe course is most suitable for the following audiences. However\, if you don’t fit into any of the following categories but still feel you too can benefit from the course\, please do apply and we will consider your application. \n\nAdvanced graduate students (Master’s or PhD) and faculty members from HUC universities\nMid-career government officials of water\, irrigation\, energy\, electricity\, food and agriculture departments\, as well as regulatory bodies\nMid-career level staff of NGOs\, INGOs\, development agencies\nScientific attachés of relevant embassies and foreign ministries\nMid-career researchers and officers from research/consulting companies working on water-energy-food nexus related themes.\n\n  \nProgramme schedule\nThe following is a list of provisional topics and speakers. All sessions will be held on Tuesdays or Thursdays at 10:00–11:00 am Nepal Standard Time (UTC+05:45). \n\n\n\nDate\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n19 May 2020\nWelcome\, course overview\, water–energy–food nexus concept and applications – Christopher Scott\, University of Arizona\, USA Water–energy–food nexus in the Hindu Kush Himalaya – Golam Rasul\, ICIMOD\, Nepal\n\n\n21 May 2020\nManaging groundwater in the Gangetic Plains requires a water–energy–food nexus approach – Aditi Mukherji\, IWMI\, India Feedback\, Q&A with participants; identification of water–energy–food nexus cases\n\n\n26 May 2020\nWater–energy–food nexus in Africa – Michael Jacobson\, Pennsylvania State University\, USA River basin development in the Andes – Christopher Scott\, University of Arizona\, USA\n\n\n28 May 2020\nWater–energy–food nexus in Pakistan – Afreen Siddiqi\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, USA The water-energy-food nexus: A systematic review of methods for nexus assessment (Arica Crootof\, Montana Western Univ.\, USA; and Tamee Albrecht\, Univ. Arizona\, USA)\n\n\n2 June 2020\nHydro-energy cooperation in the Bangladesh–Bhutan–India–Nepal region: Prospects for transboundary energy and water security in South Asia – Padmendra Shrestha\, University of Arizona\, USA\, and Udisha Saklani\, University of Cambridge\, UK Regional connectivity and cross-border energy trade in the BBIN region: Implications for sustainable mountain development – Ramesh Vaidya\, ICIMOD\, Nepal\n\n\n4 June 2020\nWater-energy-food nexus and the Hindu Kush – Himalaya Monitoring and Assessment Programme – Philippus Wester\, ICIMOD\, Nepal Course synthesis and closing remarks – Christopher Scott\, University of Arizona\, USA\n\n\n\n  \nHow to register\nPlease click on the ‘ENROLL’ button on this page to register your interest in the course and let us know about your motivation to join the course. If you face any difficulty accessing the form\, please write to huc@icimod.org mentioning the nature of the problem. We will reach out only to shortlisted and selected participants through email with further instructions to join the course. Please note that enrolling into the course would require your commitment to attend at least 4 sessions from the schedule. Participants attending all 6 sessions will be eligible to receive a digital certificate. \nOrganizer\nThe event is being organized by HUC in partnership with Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy\, University of Arizona. \nHUC – an initiative under ICIMOD’s Regional Programme on Mountain Knowledge and Action Networks (MKAN) – has a mandate to develop an effective\, sustainable network of universities in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region in collaboration with academic\, research\, and knowledge-generating and exchange institutions both within and outside the HKH region. HUC currently consists of 76 full members from eight HKH countries and 17 associate members from other parts of the world. \nDOWNLOAD FLYER \nThe registration for this event is now closed. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/water-energy-food-nexus-adaptive-response-to-regional-hindu-kush-himalayan-challenges/ LOCATION:Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/water–energy–food-nexus.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200226 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200229 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T083341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T101518Z UID:2539-1582675200-1582934399@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Writeshop on the Sustainable Mountain Education Task Force DESCRIPTION:Background\nThe Sustainable Mountain Education Task Force (previously called the Sustainable Mountain Development Curriculum Building Task Force) was formed in 2018 to achieve the Himalayan University Consortium’s (HUC) “Regional collaboration in education and training for SMD in the HKH” strategic goal. HUC is accordingly hosting a two-day writeshop of the Task Force to develop and refine HUC’s Sustainable Mountain Education Strategy. The writeshop will lead to a detailed proposal for follow-up of the Task Force and/or SME Working Group for 2020–2021. \nExpected outcomes\n\nA refined draft of HUC’s Sustainable Mountain Education Strategy.\nA proposal for continuation of the Task Force and/or SME Working Group for 2020–2021 with concrete action plans.\n\n  \nOrganizer\nThe event is being organized by HUC and financed by ICIMOD. HUC – an initiative under ICIMOD’s Regional Programme on Mountain Knowledge and Action Networks (MKAN) – has its mandate in developing an effective\, sustainable network of universities in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region in collaboration with academic\, research\, and knowledge-generating and exchange institutions both within and outside the HKH region. HUC currently consists of 76 full members from eight HKH countries and 17 associate members from other parts of the world. \nParticipants\nSeven core members\, two co-leads\, and three invited scholars will participate in the writeshop. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/writeshop-on-the-sustainable-mountain-education-task-force/ LOCATION:Kathmandu\, Nepal\, Nepal ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/writeshop-on-the-sustainable.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191103 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191106 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T083046Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240919T090514Z UID:2534-1572739200-1572998399@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Trans-Himalayan Environmental Humanities: Integrating Indigenous Mountain Knowledge\, Modern Sciences\, and Global Endeavours for a Sustainable Himalayan Region DESCRIPTION:Background\nScience–policy initiatives undertaken by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and Yunnan University have reaffirmed the critical importance of the world’s mountains in supporting the earth’s biodiversity and the need to protect the geo-ecological uniqueness of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). In addition to fostering science–policy dialogue and alliances\, ICIMOD\, through its Himalayan University Consortium (HUC)\, has recently initiated a number of research projects driven by the social sciences and humanities on sustainability studies in the HKH. \nThe HUC Trans-Himalayan Environmental Humanities Thematic Working Group is one of these high-impact initiatives\, working to widen the scope of Himalayan environmental studies with more inter-disciplinary approaches and policy engagement. “Interfacing Indigenous Knowledge\, Modern Science\, and Policymaking: Water and Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya\,” the Working Group’s first project funded by the HUC\, is a landmark research endeavour that has formally ushered environmental humanities into Himalayan studies. The project involves scholars from Bhutan\, China\, India\, and the Netherlands. \nEnvironmental humanities\, an emerging interdisciplinary field of environmental studies\, calls for diverse responses to locally manifested global environmental challenges and a fundamental understanding of what it means to be a human resident of earth (Rose et al 2012). By emphasising the relational nature of the earth with the world humans inhabit\, environmental humanities draws attention to the values and applicability of indigenous ecological knowledge in building a sustainable future for the earth community. Its conceptual resonance with Himalayan scholars as well as policymakers across the world is becoming ever more evident \nObjective\nThe Trans-Himalayan Environmental Humanities workshop in Kunming\, China will showcase the latest thematic studies on water\, climate change\, and sustainable living in the greater Himalayan region in the context of the Anthropocene – the geological age of humans – in which most environmental changes are human-induced. Participants and facilitators will discuss how indigenous experiences of climate change relate to observations made by environmental scholars and how humans value the environments in which they live\, including how these appreciations change over time and what kinds of factors influence such changes. This will be done at an interface where indigenous knowledge\, modern science\, and the global sustainability discourse come together. With environmental humanist approaches in mind\, contributors to the workshop must address these interconnected themes in their respective case studies. Papers presented at the workshop will be compiled and published. \nApplication process and selection\nThe organizers are inviting scholars and researchers from HUC full member institutions in the HKH and associate member institutions outside the region to submit research abstracts on the topics indicated in the preceding paragraph\, applicable in the HKH region. The authors of the selected abstracts will be expected to present a fully developed paper at the conference in November 2019. Submissions will be assessed based on their quality and thematic relevance. The conference particularly welcomes papers addressing the environmental sustainability of the HKH as a more-than-human world. \nSelected authors from HUC full member institutions will receive partial funding from the organizers to attend the conference. This provision is not available to authors affiliated with HUC associate member institutions. Selected papers will undergo revisions and be published with a Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) or The Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) journal\, or a globally reputable academic publisher. \nInterested scholars may submit their CV and abstract to huc@icimod.org. Please make sure to include the term ‘Abstract–Trans-Himalaya 2019‘ in your email subject line. \nThe submission deadline is 15 July 2019. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/trans-himalayan-environmental-humanities-integrating-indigenous-mountain-knowledge-modern-sciences-and-global-endeavours-for-a-sustainable-himalayan-region/ LOCATION:Kunming\, China\, China ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/yunnan-uni.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191003 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191005 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T082730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T101750Z UID:2530-1570060800-1570233599@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Inception meeting - HUC TWG on Mountain Tourism and Cultural Heritage and launch of Mount Kailash Heritage Route Project DESCRIPTION:Background\nTourism destinations within the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region are areas of great global geographical\, natural\, and cultural significance. With its towering peaks\, majestic landscapes\, and rich cultural heritage\, the HKH region has long drawn fascinated visitors from around the world. Remoteness\, inaccessibility\, and limited alternative livelihood options are challenges dictating the socioeconomic wellbeing of mountain communities. The International Centre of Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) aims to promote sustainable mountain tourism to enhance the socioeconomy and wellbeing of mountain communities. Its Kailash Sacred Landscape (KSL) Initiative promotes sustainable mountain tourism in the KSL (shared by China\, India\, and Nepal) to ensure benefits to communities and partnering countries at the transnational level. \nMountain tourism in the context of the KSL is interlaced with heritage\, culture\, and identity. The KSL is a globally important heritage encompassing Mount Kailash and Mansarovar\, an epicentre of cultural and religious significance. The landscape as a global heritage also has great historical significance\, particularly given the ancient cross-border cultural\, economic\, and religious interactions that have underpinned the transnational exchange of goods\, services\, and knowledge. \nToday\, heritage tourism is rapidly growing across the world. Tourism economy\, heritage preservation\, and national and transnational level collaboration are expanding concomitantly. An increasing number of travellers are traversing the KSL\, seeking experiential journeys for pilgrimage\, festivals\, traditions\, and authentic cuisines and lifestyles. With this boom\, mountain tourism has become an inextricable part of the landscape’s economy and collaboration. Heritage tourism in the KSL therefore needs to be understood in the context of its broad connotations and values at a transnational scale. \nAbout the inception meeting\nEvery year\, thousands of pilgrims and hundreds of tourists follow specific heritage routes to Mount Kailash. On one hand\, the thriving tourism brings economic prosperity to the KSL; on the other\, it poses dangers to the landscape and its local communities. Well-developed heritage routes could be a possible solution. Such routes are designed to preserve tangible and intangible cultural heritage and also generate benefits to the local communities. They integrate important elements for sustainable mountain tourism and cultural heritage preservation\, such as political (planning and management); economic (jobs\, employment\, and enterprises); environmental (waste\, carrying capacity); and social (human capital – knowledge\, awareness\, skills\, capacity) agendas. Effective cooperation and collaboration is needed among diverse stakeholders directly or indirectly impacted by heritage route development in the KSL. \nA critical area for cooperation and collaboration is applied knowledge generation to support science and policy decisions. Collaboration is essential for inter- and transdisciplinary research that integrates border/frontier regions\, tourism management\, heritage preservation\, and sustainability in the KSL. To this end\, ICIMOD’s Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) and Kailash Sacred Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative (KSLCDI) are jointly organizing an inception meeting on the HUC Thematic Working Groups (TWGs) on Mountain Tourism and Cultural Heritage\, which were proposed at the HUC Annual Meeting in Chengdu in 2017. The launch of the Mount Kailash Heritage Route Project will also take place during the meeting. \nThe HUC is a growing network of 80 universities in eight HKH countries – Afghanistan\, Bangladesh\, Bhutan\, China\, India\, Nepal\, Myanmar\, and Pakistan – and selected countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The Consortium aims to promote regional and global collaboration in research and higher education for meaningful and sustainable wellbeing of local communities. HUC’s TWGs are member-led\, self-organizing clusters of scholars and institutions operating on resource-sharing basis. \nA Sustainability Education Task Force has recently been established to promote inter- and trans-disciplinary\, field-based\, problem-based\, and solution-driven approaches in research and education among members. The Consortium hopes to create a new generation of scholar-leaders in the HKH region\, committed to inter- and trans- disciplinary research\, and capable of producing consequential knowledge and innovative policies to address HKH mountain issues. \nPurpose\nThe meeting aims to i) take stock of the existing availability of mountain-focused\, HKH-specific research and higher education curricula in the field of cultural heritage and tourism studies among HUC full members in the region; and ii) explore the scope of a collaborative multidisciplinary research project on Mount Kailash as part of efforts to develop a transnational heritage tourism route in the KSL. \nObjectives\n\nObtain preliminary understanding of the state-of-the-art of research and higher education training in cultural heritage and tourism studies\, with special reference to mountains\, among HUC full members in the eight HKH countries\nIdentify gaps in knowledge\, methodology\, and pedagogy for curriculum development in relevant fields\nConsolidate governance structure of the two TWGs\, or one merged TWG as per decision by participants\nDiscuss and initiate drafting a Strategy and Plan for Actions for both TWGs\, or for one of the merged TWG as per decision by participants\nExplore the potential for collaboration among members on the Mount Kailash Heritage Route Project Proposal and develop a Roadmap for Collaborative Actions\n\n  \nExpected outputs\nFinalization of a consolidated governance structure of the thematic working groups\, with specified lead\, co-Leads\, focal persons\, etc. \n\nEstablishment of a strategy-drafting core group\nPreparation of a draft Roadmap for Collaborative Actions of the Mount Kailash Heritage Route Project Proposal\nFinalization of a consolidated governance structure of the thematic working groups\, with specified lead\, co-Leads\, focal persons\, etc. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/inception-meeting-huc-twg-on-mountain-tourism-and-cultural-heritage-and-launch-of-mount-kailash-heritage-route-project/ LOCATION:Kathmandu\, Nepal\, Nepal ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/inception-meeting.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190923 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191003 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T082257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T101829Z UID:2527-1569196800-1570060799@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:HUC Academy 2019 - Harnessing economic opportunities for transformative change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya DESCRIPTION:The Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) – an initiative under the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development’s (ICIMOD) Mountain Knowledge and Action Networks (MKAN) Regional Programme – provides a platform to enhance collaboration among universities in the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region and promote centres of excellence on key topics relevant to the region. The aim is to foster research and learning by building a dynamic mountain knowledge partnership among universities\, ICIMOD\, and regional member country partners to promote research and learning. This network engages students and professionals capable of undertaking high-quality research\, education\, teaching\, and knowledge dissemination in service of a mountain-specific\, sustainable\, fair\, and inclusive development for HKH communities and adjoining mountainous areas. \nThe HUC Academy is the Consortium’s flagship annual programme that provides opportunities for young researchers to engage in cross-disciplinary scholarship. It aims to foster a new generation of transformational leaders committed to mountain research\, capable of producing consequential knowledge\, innovate policies\, and environmentally responsible business practices to address mountain challenges in the HKH from transboundary perspectives. The four signature features of the HUC Academy are mountain focus\, inter- and trans-disciplinarity\, field research\, and leadership. \nTransformative change requires targeting the root causes that result in social\, economic\, political\, and environmental problems and inequities. It is mainly accompanied by changes in economic structures and relations to enhance productivity in an environmentally sound manner and ensure equitable distribution of its benefits. The HUC Academy 2019 – under the theme “Harnessing economic opportunities for transformative change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya” – will take place in Kathmandu from 23 September to 2 October 2019. The programme aims to improve the knowledge of students and early-career professionals in identifying and analysing emerging economic opportunities and their relevance to transformative change in the HKH. \nObjectives\nThe HUC Academy 2019 aims to: \n\nEnhance applied knowledge on economic development and sustainability issues in the HKH region;\nImprove skills to design and implement frameworks for harnessing economic opportunities to bring about transformative change in the HKH;\nIdentify a set of practical skills and competencies required by academics\, practitioners\, and future leaders and help them work on the same;\nCreate an interdisciplinary network of teaching faculty and scholars working on the economics–transformative change nexus. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/huc-academy-2019-harnessing-economic-opportunities-for-transformative-change-in-the-hindu-kush-himalaya/ LOCATION:Kathmandu\, Nepal\, Nepal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190808 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190919 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T081842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T101855Z UID:2522-1565222400-1568851199@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Asia-Pacific Water Leadership Programme DESCRIPTION:Targeted Audience\nThe Water Leadership Programme (WLP) targets mid- and senior-level scholars and faculty members across disciplines of water studies and water resource management in the HKH\, who have a track-record experience in conducting research\, publishing\, training\, and engaging in policy dialogues on these topics. \nVenues\nThe WLP will be held in the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia\, along with classroom modules in Canberra\, Melbourne and Adelaide\, and field visits along the Murray River. \nImportant Dates\nProgram Dates: 8 April – 19 April 2018 \nDeadline for application: 17:00 Nepal Standard Time\, 5 February 2018 \nNotification of selection: 15 February 2018 \nBackground\nSouth Asia is home to about 21 percent of the global population\, but only roughly eight percent of the world’s annual renewable water resources. Population growth and urbanization are major drivers of change and increasing water stress in the region. The rivers of South Asia bear the brunt of this new demand for fresh water. About one billion people live in the three large transboundary basins of the region: the Indus\, Ganges and Brahmaputra. These rivers that emanate from the Himalaya are shared across borders between Afghanistan\, Bangladesh\, Bhutan\, China\, India\, Nepal and Pakistan. Climate change studies increasingly suggest that the effects of glacial melt\, temperature variations\, and erratic monsoon patterns will reduce the availability of water in the region and lead to a greater frequency of floods and drought. Despite the frequency and transboundary impacts of these extreme events\, cooperation between countries remains limited. \nA 12-day intensive programme\, co-organized by ICIMOD and the International Centre of Excellence on Water Resources Management (ICE WaRM)\, aims at providing a unique opportunity for mid- and senior-level scholars from HUC full members to learn of Australian experiences in water policy reform and improved use and management of water resources. The Programme will focus on integrated river basin management (IRBM) and governance\, including various aspects of the integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach\, including gender\, ecosystems\, social inclusiveness and community engagement\, public and private cooperation\, and water sharing between sectors and across states. \nCall For Applications\nApplicants must have at least 15 years progressive experience in water research and/or water resource management. Inter- or trans-disciplinary and/or trans-boundary experience in collaborative research\, training\, and policy-science dialogue is highly desirable. \nAge requirement: below 46 for men\, and below 51 for women. Women and people of minority/indigenous backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. \nFull funding to take part in the Programme will be provided to participants\, to be selected on competitive basis. \nDeadline for application is 5 February 2018 URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/asia-pacific-water-leadership-programme/ LOCATION:Murray-Darling Basin\, Canberra\, Melbourne\, Adelaide\, Australia\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ice-warm-logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190527 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190603 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T075334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T101914Z UID:2518-1558915200-1559519999@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Introduction to Knowledge Management and Communication DESCRIPTION:Background\nThe Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) is one of Bhutan’s esteemed education institutions that conducts research and promotes knowledge creation and dissemination for global impact. With over 600 academics employed and 10\,000 students in more than 60 programmes at 10 different university campuses\, the RUB contributes to research and shares its expertise in various international platforms. With the increasing number of academic papers being produced at the university\, it has become necessary to systematically manage this knowledge through the use of information technology and effective repository systems. It is also important to develop tools and mechanisms to disseminate the knowledge through different knowledge products and mediums at national\, regional\, and international levels. \nThe International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is a regional intergovernmental learning and knowledge-sharing centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush Himalaya – Afghanistan\, Bangladesh\, Bhutan\, China\, India\, Myanmar\, Nepal\, and Pakistan. ICIMOD serves as an open house for knowledge initiatives on sustainable mountain development. The Knowledge Management and Communication (KMC) unit at ICIMOD helps produce\, package\, and communicate information and knowledge products in the form of publications\, databases\, multimedia\, and web content\, all of which are globally available online. \nAbout the customized course\nICIMOD is a founding member and host of the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC)\, a network of 80 higher education institutions within and outside the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. The HUC’s mandate is to strengthen capacity for and promote regional and global collaboration in research and education for sustainable mountain development among members. The Royal University of Bhutan has been an active member of the HUC since 2016.\nGiven the RUB’s need for knowledge management and ICIMOD’s capacity in the same\, an introductory course on knowledge management and communications has been designed by professionals at ICIMOD for RUB staff members. The course is a part of efforts by the HUC and ICIMOD to strengthen institutional capacity for sustainable mountain development in the HKH. The course caters to staff members with more than 10 years’ experience in management and administration\, responsible for coordinating and managing the dissemination of knowledge generated by the RUB to various stakeholders for a wide range of usage. \nExpected outcomes\nParticipants are expected to obtain an overall understanding of knowledge and communication systems applicable in the higher education institution context. By the end of the course\, they should be able to: \n\nManage university staff’s data and publications using information management systems\, thereby contributing to quality classroom teaching\nEngage in library management and explore sharing of a knowledge network with HUC Libraries through e-services\nDisseminate publications through policy briefs and press releases for print\, broadcast\, and social media (Facebook\, Twitter\, Instagram) to improve outreach\n\nParticipants will also be introduced to project management in the academic context. They will obtain a preliminary understanding of: \n\n\n\nThe importance of Theory of Change and Management-by-Result Framework in academic activities\nMedium-term research project management cycle\nThe importance and practice of monitoring\, evaluation\, and learning\nNetworking and partnership building in the academic context\n\n\n\n  \nParticipants will also have an opportunity to visit Kathmandu University’s campus to learn about good practices in management. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/introduction-to-knowledge-management-and-communication/ LOCATION:ICIMOD Headquarters\, Kathmandu\, Nepal ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/management-and-communication.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190518 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T074840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T101945Z UID:2515-1558051200-1558137599@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:High-level symposium on the UN Sustainable Development Goals DESCRIPTION:Nations\, cities\, and communities all over the world have committed to work towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The SDGs\, set by the United Nations General Assembly\, aim at securing a sustainable future for all. They address several global challenges\, including those related to poverty\, good health\, clean water\, sustainable cities and communities\, quality education\, gender equality\, climate and environmental degradation\, and peace and justice. \nSDG 17 emphasizes the need for collaboration among different facets of society for sustainable development. To deliberate on this in the context of the Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region\, specifically in relation to collaboration between Norway and Nepal\, a high-level symposium will be held in Kathmandu\, Nepal\, on 17 May 2019. The symposium is being organized by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) – an initiative under the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Experts from ICIMOD will participate in this event and deliberate on issues relevant to the HKH region. \nInstitutions in Nepal and Norway have for long closely collaborated on directly addressing several of the SDGs. This symposium will explore how strengthened collaboration between Norway and Nepal\, NTNU and Nepalese partner universities\, and the public and private sectors can form a sustainable development agenda and further contribute to the SDGs in general\, specifically in the areas of social sustainability and hydropower. \nA successful sustainable development agenda requires partnerships between governments\, the private sector\, and civil society\, and it requires that the knowledge sector\, in close collaboration with partners in public and private sector\, develop knowledge and competencies that can contribute to sustainable development. HUC is mandated to develop an effective\, sustainable network of universities in the HKH region in collaboration with academic\, research and knowledge-generating\, and exchange institutions both within and outside the region. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/high-level-symposium-on-the-un-sustainable-development-goals/ LOCATION:Kathmandu\, Nepal\, Nepal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190407 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T074734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T102058Z UID:2512-1553385600-1554595199@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Regional Training on Springshed Management for Socio-Ecological Resilience in the Hindu Kush Himalaya 2019 DESCRIPTION:Springs are the main source of water for millions of people and ecosystems in the HKH landscapes that span eight countries – Afghanistan\, Bangladesh\, Bhutan\, China\, India\, Myanmar\, Nepal\, and Pakistan. Springs play an important role in the daily lives of thousands of rural and urban communities in the hills and mountains of the HKH. They are also important for ecosystem services\, such as base flow in rivers\, supporting biodiversity\, and providing cultural and spiritual services. However\, in many places\, once-reliable springs are drying up or their discharge is reducing\, presenting rural communities\, women in particular\, with new challenges. There is also growing concern about the quality of spring water due to contamination from different sources – geogenic and anthropogenic. \nIn the Himalayan region\, natural springs and their sustainable development are not given due importance at both policy and practice levels\, even though they play a critical role in water security. Present gaps in data and understanding need to be filled to develop innovative solutions for the sustainable management of these traditional sources of groundwater. There is also a need to raise awareness among academia and relevant policy and decision makers\, and to develop skills and share knowledge on this critical topic with field practitioners and community members. There are gaps in data concerning the level of dependence of local populations on springs and the roles these play in nurturing cultural services and building resilience. \nThe drying of springs can have direct consequences on the larger ecosystem. Soils can lose moisture and nutrients\, soil nutrients can reduce and biodiversity will suffer as a result. If a wetland that supports a unique bird species dries up\, the entire wetland ecosystem is impacted. Therefore\, any ecosystem research and development programme should consider hydrogeological elements and combine biodiversity and lithodiversity perspectives as they are intertwined. \nICIMOD\, in its role as a regional leaning centre\, is working with a diverse range of partners from its regional member countries (RMCs) to generate and share knowledge through a common platform for enhancing collective understanding of spring revival and springshed management. A six-step protocol on springshed management has been developed through various interdisciplinary partnerships and participatory field experiences. The protocol has been sharpened through a detailed methodology of springshed management developed under a collaboration between ICIMOD and the Advanced Center for Water Resources Development and Management (ACWADAM) over the past few years. Capacity building in relation to the protocol holds great potential for implementing a common methodology for springshed development and management in the HKH region. \nThe training is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) through its Indian Himalayas Climate Adaptation Programme (IHCAP) under the Global Programme Climate Change and Environment (GPCCE). \nObjectives\n\nTo provide an interdisciplinary approach to understanding spring systems in the HKH region\, which in turn can translate into knowledge and skills on springshed management for the socio-ecological resilience of local communities\nTo build skills regarding springshed management activities on the basis of sound concepts\, analyses\, and field experience regarding a systematic methodology based on the subject of hydrogeology along with disciplines such as climate\, environment\, and water governance\nTo understand and analyze experiences and impacts of springshed management under different conditions across HKH region URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/regional-training-on-springshed-management-for-socio-ecological-resilience-in-the-hindu-kush-himalaya-2019/ LOCATION:Kathmandu\, Nepal\, Nepal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181112 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181216 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T074559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T102203Z UID:2507-1541980800-1544918399@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:HUC - IHCAP Glacier Monitoring Training 2018 DESCRIPTION:The Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) – an Initiative under ICIMOD’s regional programme on Mountain Knowledge and Action Networks (MKAN) – has its mandate in developing an effective\, sustainable network of universities in the HKH\, in collaboration with academic\, research and knowledge generating and exchange institutions both within and outside the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. \nGlacier mass balance\, surface elevation\, and area changes are Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) as defined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They are among the most important climate indicators from a science-policy communication perspective because glacier change is often visible and easily quantifiable\, and as a result\, more comprehensible to the general public. For this reason\, glaciers have become iconic climate change indicators. Consistent long-term glacier monitoring programmes\, however\, are sparse in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. \nICIMOD has collaborated with partners to build capacity and establish glacier mass balance programmes in the HKH since 2011. The Universities of Fribourg and Zurich\, Switzerland\, maintain multiple monitoring programmes in the Alps. As a core competence\, they have built capacity in Switzerland\, and internationally with partners in India and several countries in the Andean and Central Asian region. ICIMOD carries out HUC–IHCAP Glacier Monitoring Training for students and young professionals from its regional member countries (RMCs) in collaboration with Swiss and Indian experts to promote sustainable and consistent monitoring programmes. The main objective of the training is to educate participants on glacier monitoring and its relevance and context in view of cryosphere and climate science\, and to teach and practice international monitoring method standards. \nThe training consists of a theoretical section (Part I) for a larger group of participants (maximum 20) and a field-based section (Part II) for a smaller group (maximum 9). \nPart I will provide participants information on international strategies and monitoring protocols for glacier monitoring\, and understand their relevance\, context\, and theoretical background. Methods will be taught\, instruments demonstrated\, and exercises conducted to help participants analyse and understand global glacier monitoring parameters. Trainees will be introduced to the health\, safety\, and risk aspects of field work at remote\, alpine\, high-altitude sites\, and given instruction on how to reduce risks and respond to them. Trainings on altitude-related illnesses and basic mountaineering techniques are high priority. \nPart II will have participants learning how to conduct measurements and apply their theoretical knowledge in the field. Participants will practise basic mountaineering skills and experience the high-elevation alpine environment with its risks and challenges. \nClick here for more information about the announcement\, and submit your online application by 10 August 2018. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/huc-ihcap-glacier-monitoring-training-2018/ LOCATION:ICIMOD ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ihcap-glacier.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181107 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T073817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T102219Z UID:2502-1541376000-1541548799@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:2018 International Workshop for Young Scientists of the Hindu Kush Himalaya DESCRIPTION:The Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) was established with a mandate to develop an effective\, sustainable network of universities in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). The initiative is part of the regional programme on Mountain Knowledge and Action Networks (MKAN) at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). It works in collaboration with academic\, research\, and knowledge generating and exchange institutions within and outside the HKH. \nThe Second International Science Forum of National Scientific Organizations on the Belt and Road Initiative is to be organized by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) with the theme: Science and Technology cooperation and sustainable development for the Belt and Road region. The 2018 International Workshop for Young Scientists of the HKH has been incorporated in the session on capacity building\, personal training\, and basic scientific research\, with the aim of providing a platform for young students\, researchers\, and university and research institute administrators to exchange ideas for better collaboration. \nThis workshop will provide a unique opportunity for early career scholars in the HKH to interact with their peers in the region\, share their research experience\, cultivate collegial partnerships and lay the foundations for future leadership in the region. Participants will include PhD students\, scientists\, engineers\, and young scholars from universities that are full members of HUC. Some scientists and outstanding PhD students will be invited to make keynote presentations. \nObjectives \nThe workshop will focus on climate change and sustainable development in the HKH. Major topics include: \n\nClimate change\nDisaster risk reduction\nBiodiversity and stable ecosystems\nWater resources\nLivelihoods and poverty reduction\nRegional development\nEducation and knowledge dissemination URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/2018-international-workshop-for-young-scientists-of-the-hindu-kush-himalaya/ LOCATION:Yanqihu Campus\, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences\, Beijing\, China\, China ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/university-of-chinese.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181030 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181101 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T061749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T102247Z UID:2497-1540857600-1541030399@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:High Level Meeting of Education and University Grants Commissions & Himalayan University Consortium Annual Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Himalayan University Consortium has its mandate in developing an effective\, sustainable network of universities in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region\, in collaboration with academic\, research\, knowledge generating and exchange institutions both within and outside the HKH region. This network engages top-notch professional women and men capable of undertaking high-quality research\, education\, teaching\, and knowledge dissemination in service of a mountain-specific\, sustainable\, fair and inclusive development for HKH communities and adjoining mountainous areas. The Consortium’s elected six-member Steering Group and a Secretariat coordinate with member institutions in network building\, partnership enhancing\, collaboration promoting\, resource sharing and fund raising activities.  The Secretariat is hosted by the Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD\, Kathmandu)\, which has made HUC one of the Initiatives of the Regional Programme 6 – Mountain Knowledge and Action Networks (MKANs)\, funded through the generous support of ICIMOD’s core donors: the Governments of Afghanistan\, Australia\, Austria\, Bangladesh\, Bhutan\, China\, India\, Myanmar\, Nepal\, Norway\, Pakistan\, Switzerland\, and the United Kingdom. \nOver the past four years\, there has been a renewed interest among existing members and increased interest among potential HUC members. The total members increased from 33 in the beginning of 2016 to 62 by the end of 2017\, including 47 full members from 8 countries in the HKH region and 15 associate members from outside of the HKH (Annex 1). At the HUC Annual Meeting in Chengdu\, November 2017\, the General Assembly endorsed the Steering Group’s proposal to establish a Task Force in drafting the HUC Strategy and Plan for Actions (SPA\, 2018-2025)\, meanwhile reviewing the membership policies.  In selected countries where members are increasing such as India\, Pakistan\, and Nepal\, process of consultation has been initiated to discuss the need for an HUC Country Chapter. The SPA Drafts were prepared and revised according to inputs from members in selected countries during the first half of 2018. \nThe most recent development of HUC is the establishment of Thematic Working Groups (Annex 3). Ten (10) TWGs cover a wide range of thematic areas from climate change\, water resource management\, disaster reduction and resilience\, mountain agriculture\, non-traditional food securities\, to poverty alleviation and environmental humanities. HUC TWGs are members-led clustering of researchers and practitioners from HUC members sharing similar scholarly interests\, working to promote regional collaboration in research and training for sustainable mountain development. The development of TGWs is a continuation from HUC institutional grants provided to partnerships across the HKH (Annex 2). \nBoth country-based clusters of universities (country chapters) and thematic groups among members (TWGs) have come to realize the importance to inform state and national level policy makers of the significant potential HUC can bring in creating and sharing advance knowledge and competent workforce in service of sustainable development in upstream and downstream communities. At this end\, efforts have been made in 2018 to approach University Grant Commissions in India and Nepal\, Higher Education Commission in Pakistan\, and National Education Planning Commission in Myanmar. Initiative responses from high level policy makers in these bodies have been overwhelming positive\, indicating opportunities not only to garner support at national level but also the need to facilitate dialogue between UGC/HEC/NEPC chairpersons in the region to foster regional collaboration in research and training for SMD. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/high-level-meeting-of-education-and-university-grants-commissions-himalayan-university-consortium-annual-meeting/ LOCATION:ICIMOD\, Kathmandu University\, Nepal ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/high-level-meeting.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180811 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180813 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T061546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T102307Z UID:2493-1533945600-1534118399@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Himalayan University Consortium Nepal Members’ Meeting DESCRIPTION:The Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) was established with a mandate to develop an effective\, sustainable network of universities in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). The initiative is part of the regional programme on Mountain Knowledge and Action Networks (MKAN) at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). It works in collaboration with academic\, research\, and knowledge generating and exchange institutions within and outside the HKH. \nOver the past decade\, ICIMOD has provided technical support in strengthening research capacity in climate change sciences and natural resource studies and management. The HUC Secretariat responds to requests to help build and upgrade curricula for sustainable mountain development from schools and departments at universities—both members and non-members of HUC. \nThe Objective and the expected outcome of the meeting is stated below: \nObjectives \nVice-Chancellors\, Pro-Vice Chancellors\, and senior administrators and researchers from HUC member institutions in Nepal will be discussing: \n\nA draft of the HUC Strategy and Action Plan I (2018–2025).\nPotential funding sources for research and training collaboration among HUC members in Nepal and members within and outside the region.\nThematic areas for Nepal and the role of HUC Nepal members in thematic working groups.\nPromotion of science-policy dialogues through HUC linkages with policy making institutions.\nPotential linkage between HUC and Nepal’s University Grants Commission.\nThe need to establish a HUC Country Chapter in Nepal.\nProcedure to nominate a HUC Steering Group member representing members in Nepal.\n\nExpected Outcomes \nThe meeting is expected to arrive at: \n\nA summary of comments and inputs to the HUC Strategy and Action Plan I (2018–2025).\nA summary and action points regarding resource mobilization and potential for collaboration.\nA summary and action points regarding the HUC Country Chapter in Nepal.\nA summary and action points of the nomination procedure for a HUC Steering Group member representing Nepal. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/himalayan-university-consortium-nepal-members-meeting/ LOCATION:Pokhara University\, Nepal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180701 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180715 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T061327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T102712Z UID:2488-1530403200-1531612799@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:HUC Academy 2018 - Climate Science and Adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region: A Transdisciplinary Approach DESCRIPTION:The Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) – an Initiative under ICIMOD’s regional programme on Mountain Knowledge and Action Networks (MKAN) – has its mandate in developing an effective\, sustainable network of universities in the HKH\, in collaboration with academic\, research and knowledge generating and exchange institutions both within and outside the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. \nUniversities and research centres play a key role in generating and sharing knowledge on climate change and providing evidence for effective climate change impact mitigation policies and practices. They fill crucial knowledge gaps and infuse technical content into public discourse that can influence policy makers and public opinion. The Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) was founded in 2007 with a mandate to develop an effective\, sustainable network of universities in the HKH that collaborate with academic\, research\, and knowledge-generating institutions both within and outside the region for sustainable mountain development. \nThe HUC Academy is a flagship annual intensive programme of the Consortium\, providing cross-disciplinary scholarship opportunities to young researchers. It aims to create a new generation of transformational leaders committed to mountain research\, who are capable of producing consequential knowledge\, innovative policies\, and environmentally responsible business practices to address HKH mountain challenges with transboundary solutions. The four signature features of the HUC Academy are mountain focus; interdisciplinarity; field research; and\, leadership. \nThe HUC Academy 2018\, titled “Climate Science and Adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region – a Transdisciplinary Approach\,” will take place in Kathmandu from 1 to 14 July 2018\, as part of a two-year grant made to the HUC by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The project aims to advance knowledge of climate science and promote effective and sustainable adaptation measures. It seeks to scale up the impacts of previous and existing Indian Himalayas Climate Adaptation Programme (IHCAP) interventions to the HKH and promote regional collaboration between higher education institutions in India and neighboring countries. \nThe HUC Academy 2018 aims to: \n– Enhance scientific and applied knowledge on issues of climate change and adaptation in the HKH region. \n– Improve practical skills needed for competent academics\, practitioners\, and future leaders. \n– Create an interdisciplinary network of teaching faculty and scholars in climate change and adaptation in and for the HKH. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/huc-academy-2018-climate-science-and-adaptation-in-the-hindu-kush-himalayan-region-a-transdisciplinary-approach/ LOCATION:International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://huc-hkh.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/huc-academy-2018-event.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180701 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180702 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T061135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T102729Z UID:2484-1530403200-1530489599@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Inception Meeting - SDC HUC Focus Grants 2018–2019 DESCRIPTION:HUC aims to enhance collaboration among universities in the HKH and to promote centres of excellence on research topics that are relevant to the region. The inception workshop will bring together principal investigators of selected lead institutions and partners to foster regional collaboration in higher education and research for sustainable mountain development. \nObjectives\n\nFamiliarize participants with the Himalayan University Consortium and the process of HUC Institutional Grants\nCreate common understanding about the project grant – its vision\, goals\, objectives\, and implementation plans\nPresent the project to the project team\, ICIMOD resource persons\, and Swiss experts\nDiscuss the roles of various partners and stakeholders in project implementation and introduce the partnership approach\nEnsure ownership\, support\, and commitment to project outputs by partners\n\n  \nExpected Outcomes\n\nPartners have a shared understanding of the project and their respective roles\nICIMOD Resource Persons and Swiss experts interact with grantees to enhance project direction and plans URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/inception-meeting-sdc-huc-focus-grants-2018-2019/ LOCATION:Hotel Himalaya\, Nepal\, Nepal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180606 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180609 DTSTAMP:20260430T204257 CREATED:20240910T061013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240911T102918Z UID:2481-1528243200-1528502399@huc-hkh.org SUMMARY:Second Meeting of HUC Thematic Working Group on Water DESCRIPTION:The HUC Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Water (Water Group) was established at the Himalayan University Consortium (HUC) Annual Meeting in Chengdu in November 2017. During the first TWG meeting in New Delhi\, India\, in January 2018\, several actionable points were finalized. This meeting will be held to formulate an implementation plan for those points. It aims to: \n\nDevelop a strategy paper on actionable points for the Water Group\nGenerate consensus among partner universities on key details of the operational framework of the WG – for example\, governance\, policy\, roles and responsibilities\, and joint action\nGather ideas for financial sustainability of the WG and short-term activities.\n\nThe HUC is an initiative under ICIMOD’s regional programme on Mountain Knowledge and Action Networks (MKAN) that has a mandate to develop an effective\, sustainable network of universities in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH)\, in collaboration with academic\, research- and knowledge-generating and exchange institutions inside and outside the HKH. URL:https://huc-hkh.org/event/second-meeting-of-huc-thematic-working-group-on-water/ LOCATION:Kunming\, China\, China END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR