On the 06th September 2023, an INOWASIA partner at NUOL, Dr. Santi Kongmany with official authorities from National Center of Food and Drug Analysis (NCFDA) of Ministry of Health (MOH), Department of Standards and Metrology (Ministry of Industry and Commerce, MOIC), and Lao National Standard Council (MOIC) joined Thailand LAB INTERNATIONAL 2023 in BITEC, Bangkok, […]

My name is NENG Layheng. I’m a master student at ITC. I have an #INOWASIA internship at CTU period 3 months under project #ERASMUS+ #INOWASIA. I arrived Can Tho University (CTU) on 22 April 2023 and stay in international dormitory at CTU. The specific subject for doing research is : “Low Impact Development (LID) Concept […]

My name is Meng Ponleu CHEA. I am a first year master student in sustainable agriculture at the National University of Battambang (NUBB). I appreciate the opportunity to work as an #INOWASIA internship student at the National University of Laos’ Center of Excellence in Environment (CoEE, NUOL). On April 4, 2023, I was grateful that […]

My name is Vo Thi Diem My. I am a master’s student in Environment and Natural Resources Management at Can Tho University (CTU) in Vietnam. I am delighted to have been chosen as be one of the internship students by the #INOWASIA project. this, For I will doing an internship at Souphanouvong University (SU) in […]

I’m CHANTHAVONG Oudone, a Chemistry master’s candidate at the National University of Laos, in Laos. P.D.R. I am now in a three-month internship from #INOWASIA project at the Department of Chemistry, VNU University of Science, Hanoi, Vietnam. My internship research topic is “A novel CoFe2O4/MIL-88A nanocomposite coupled with H2O2/Air nanobubbles for antibiotic degradation in wastewater.” […]

On August 1st-2nd, 2023, the National University of Battambang (NUBB) organized a workshop about “Academic programs of NUBB for new academic year 2023-2024” in Siemreap under the presidency of H.E. Khorn SOK, rector of NUBB. There are 108 participants from high schools of 4 various provinces such as Battambang, Pursat, Pailin and Banteay meanchey. Moreover, […]

My full name is Nguyen Thi Bach Kim. I am a first year PhD student in Water and Soil Environment at Can Tho University (CTU), Vietnam. I have received a great chance from #INOWASIA ERASMUS+ project for an international internship in water quality test and other related water Lab (#LivingLab, #WLL) at Souphanouvong University (SU), […]

On July 7, three students doing internships in Asian partner universities attended their mid-term evaluation. The jury was composed of: Magali Gerino, Toulouse III University Lou Ackermann, Project manager at the Toulouse III University Antonina Torrens Armengol, Fundacio Solidaritat The 3 students that were present for this evaluation were: Kim NGUYEN and My VO from […]

On Wednesday June 7th, 2023, Professor Dr. Ralf Schlauderer Vice President of WEIHENSTEPHAN-TRIESDORF (University of Applied Sciences), Germany paid a visit at the National University of Battambang (NUBB) to figure out the education and research programs at NUBB. The visit was composed of a courtesy meeting with H.E. SOK Khorn, Rector of NUBB, and a […]

On June 9, 2023, four students doing internships in Asian partner universities attended their mid-term evaluation. The jury was composed of: Magali Gerino, Toulouse III University Lou Ackermann, Project manager at the Toulouse III University Antonina To rrens Armengol, Fundacio Solidaritat The 4 students that were present for this evaluation were: Chanda PHONEMANY and Phaivanh […]

Currently, the increase in population, industry and socio-economic development, water resources are dwindling, the availability and supply of clean water is a global concern. Physico-chemical characteristics synthesis MnFe2O4 MNPs using advanced materials possess immense prospect in water and wastewater treatment. During the internship within Water-oriented Living Lab of VNU-HUS for 3 months where I will […]

Currently, the increase population, expansion of industrial plants and socio-economic development, water resources, water use and supply of clean water is a concern of the whole world, Water resources are dwindling, the availability and supply of clean water is a global concern. physico-chemical characteristics synthesis CoFe2O4 suing advanced materials possess immense prospect in water and […]

Water resources are dwindling, the availability and supply of clean water is a global concern. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) using advanced materials possess immense prospect in water and wastewater treatment. During the internship within Center of Excellence in Environment (CoEE) of NUOL for 3 months where I will use the magnetic nanomaterials to decompose antibiotics […]

My name is Mr. Latsamee KINGLATTANA, I’m a master’s student from the National University of Laos, Faculty of Water Resource. Majoring in Integrated Water Resources Management. I had the opportunity to do an internship and exchange at the Water Oriented Living Lab of the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) in the Kingdom of Cambodia, […]

On June 7, five students doing internships in Asian partner universities attended their mid-term evaluation. The jury was composed of: Magali Gerino, Toulouse III University Lou Ackermann, Project manager at the Toulouse III University Antonina Torrens Armengol, Fundacio Solidaritat The 5 students that were present for this evaluation were: Layheng NENG and Laiheng PAO from […]

My name is PAO Laiheng. I’m a master student at the Institute of Technology of Cambodia. I am doing an internship at Can Tho University under INOWASIA project funding. I arrived at Can Tho University (CTU) on April 22, 2023, and stayed in the international dormitory at Can Tho University. The specific subject for doing […]

I am Theavy CHHY who peruse master’s degree at National University of Battambang (NUBB), Cambodia, majoring sustainable ecosystem management (SEM). I am really delight and appreciated that I have been selected from the project to intern at the Centre of Excellence in Environment (CoEE) under the National University of Laos, Laos PDR for three months. […]

At Laboratory of Water Environment, ITC, Ms. Huong Luong from Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam National University is doing internship under INOWASIA project at ITC. In here, Dr. Saret Bun has presented a quick introduction about project microplastics and macroplastics assessment in different environments in Cambodia to intern student – Ms. Huong and other members. […]

The INOWASIA internships started in mid-April 2023. Each Southeast Asian partner was able to send two students to another partner university. Each student will spend three or more months practicing on water-related issues. The Academic and Professional Committee (APC) members have been asked to participate to the subjects.    For now, the students who started […]

Congratulations to Dr Tran Dinh-Trinh and his team from the VNU Key Lab. of Advanced Materials for Green Growth (Hanoi University of Science, Vietnam) for their new publication in Science of Total Environment , an international multi-disciplinary natural science journal for publication of novel, hypothesis-driven and high-impact factor (10.75) : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164358 A novel tertiary magnetic […]

From April 1 to 7, the INOWASIA steering committee hold in Laos for its third biannual meeting. All the INOWASIA partners were there. The first part of the week was dedicated to NUOL activities : https://inowasia.com/the-inowasia-third-biannual-meeting-in-laos-the-first-part-within-nuol/ The second part of week (from 5th to 7th April) was organized by the SU’s team, as following. SU’s local […]

Dr Didier ORANGE, IRD scientist, has been invited by Prof. Nguyen Thai Huyen from the Hanoi University of Architecture (#HAU) to provide a conference on : INOWASIA, Living Lab and PBL : an opportunity to boost the wastewaters reuse   The conference challenges HAU researchers to mobilize interdisciplinarity in order to find the best #wastewaters […]

The next WieTec2023 symposium, in one month, is an opportunity for the #INOWASIA community to participate to the region’s leading water jobs in Asia. Promoted by the #ASIAWATER, WieTec2023 is scheduled to take place on June 5-7, 2023 at Shanghai National Exhibition & Convention Center. The event brings together innovative products, services and solutions, experts, […]

On 24 April 2023, H.E. SOK Khorn, Rector of the National University of Battambang (NUBB) met the delegation from JICA led by Prof. Dr. Takada, Vice President of Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) Japan and chief advisor of JICA, under framework of LBE-JICA project. The meeting aims to review the progress of project implementation and […]

From April 1 to 7, the INOWASIA steering committee hold in Laos for its third biannual meeting. All the INOWASIA partners were there. It was an intense and well organized trip, a necessity for the cohesion of the INOWASIA group. So many and diverse activities have been done.The meeting has started by a field visit in […]

On April 13, 2023, a visit of the neOCampus WOLL platform of bioinspired constructed wetlands for wastewater recycling was organized with the Pharmacy students of Toulouse 3 University. It was a tutorial on microbiological and chemical standards for water quality assessment within the framework of the teaching unit “Water and Health” of the 2nd year […]

In the upcoming April, INOWASIA steering committee will be gathered in the Lao PDR for the 3rd biannual meeting which is started at Vangvieng, followed by a series of Workshop on Water Resources management and Challenge in South East Asia at National University of Laos (NUOL) in Vientiane Capital on 4th April. Next Souphanouvong University […]

On 5th January 2023, a fieldwork at the experimental site of Water Oriented Living Lab (WOLL) promoted by the #INOWASIA #Erasmus-+ project has been done for the GRU students. The WOLL is built in Prek Sdey Commune, Koh Thom District, Kandal Province. CWE Lab of the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) is implementing the […]

The specific mission of INOWASIA to Laos with representatives of the University of Girona and Fundació Solidaritat University of Barcelona, was carried out successfully in December 2022 and January 2023.  The mission began in Vientiane, Laos, the 29 December 2022 with a three-day training, institutional meeting, and a visit to the facilities of the National […]

    By the end of 2022, the INOWASIA platform is happy to welcome 5 new members to join its Academic and Professional Committee: – 2 faculties from the Hanoi University of Science (HUS-VNU) : the Faculty of Environmental Sciences (KMT) and the Institute of Occupational Health and Environmental Technology (ETOHI) ; – 1 division […]

On 19th January, the new #UT3-WOLL was launched with success on the Campus of the University of Toulouse 3. Were invited Marie Pierre Gleyses as Dean of Scientific group of neOCampus, Jocelyn MERE as CNRS regional dean, Georges ZISSI (Vice President for Europ and international projects), Thierry PAPRA VP for partnership with compagnies, Catherine JANDEL […]

The objectives and the main activities of the project INOWASIA were explained to a delegation of the University of South-Eastern Norway (Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge) who visited the University of Girona. The coordinator of the project briefly introduced the consortium and explained in detail the importance of training the new generation of young water professionals in […]

The One Health initiative is a collaborative, multisectoral and transdisciplinary approach to human, animal and environmental health that is based on studies at local, national and global levels. Its aim is to understand the mechanisms of emerging or re-emerging diseases, in order to prevent them. Funders: Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Solidarity Fund for […]

During the visit of INOWASIA group at Can Tho University, the College of Environmental and Natural Resources (CENRes) has organized on November 1st 2022 an INOWASIA networking seminar, entitled “Water and Natural Resources in the Mekong delta of Vietnam – Challenges and Opportunities”. It was the opportunity to introduce so many research topics and research […]

On October 30th 2022, Can Tho University hold the “International Forum on Sustainable Development for the Mekong Delta 2022”. SDMD 2045 is an initiative established and hosted by Can Tho University to integrate national and international collaborative research and development activities, with the goal of contribution to the sustainable development of the Mekong Delta region […]

INOWASIA invites the water related stakeholders from private and academic arena to offer places for international student internships, funded by INOWASIA. The aim is to improve the capacity in research and/or to advance the career perspectives of the best MSc and PhD students from six universities from Laos (NUOL, SU), Cambodia (NUBB, ITC) and Vietnam (CTU, […]

Both undergraduate and graduate students at the department of forestry resources at Souphanouvong University (SU) have taken part in the on-campus water quality investigation. The objectives of the activity are to assist students in becoming familiar with the use of water equipment in the targeted fields, identifying the target areas, planning the investigation areas, and […]

Today 17 November 2022, ITC has received the official visit by Mr. Jacques PELLET, French Ambassador in Phnom Penh and Madam Valérie VERDIER, President of IRD, and others deligations. They also visited to Water and Oriented Living Lab “Coastal and Wetland Environmental Research Laboratory”, from the #INOWASIA Erasmus+ project.    For more information, click here. […]

On 10-11 October 2022, the National University of Battambang (NUBB) hosted the national Green Conference entitled “Incorporating green concept in Cambodian higher education”, which aimed (i) to raise the green awareness of Cambodian higher education institutions toward the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and (ii) to strengthen development ecosystem between HEIs with the private sectors, government […]

Dr. CHHUON Kong, Dean of the Faculty of Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering at Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), described the programs of education on Water and Environmental Engineering at ITC.   He also shared his educational background with interest on the engineering solution for water and environmental issues. He talked about his daily […]

On Nov. 04, 2022 at National University of Laos (NUOL) in Vientiane Capital of Laos, there will be an annual event called National Research Forum. This year it will be the 9th forum under the title ” Sciences, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development”. At the event, INOWASIA-NUOL members will present INOWASIA poster and brochures. […]

Groundwater is typically regarded as a reliable and accessible source of water use in the coastal zone of Cambodia. The hydrogeochemical evolution of groundwater in the coastal area of Sihanoukville is of concern the local people since Sihanoukville is undergoing tremendous urbanization and estimated to reach water scarcity in this region. Thus, the aim of […]

Water Oriented Living Labs (WOLLs) for the six university partners in Asian Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) involved in INOWASIA project will be realized soon by the end of this year. A WOLL is real-life, water-oriented demo and platform-type environments with a cross-sector nexus approach, which have the involvement and commitment of multi-stakeholders. Then WOLLs provide […]

According to the United Nations, 2.2 billion of people living with lack of clean water, and 4.4 billion of people with limited access to clean water. By 2030, 60 nations seriously lack of clean water while 3.6 million deaths due to diseases related to water pollution. According to a recent report, about 20% of the […]

neOCampus filter platform for wastewater treatment on the campus of Toulouse University was built during June 2022 by EPURTEK. This Constructed Wetland (or Filtre Planté Végétalisé) is now waiting for sensors setting before to get planted inside with phragmites. The completed filter celebration should happen during November 2022.   Around this constructed wetland, almost 25 […]

How to measure the water quality regulation service as an in-stream natural service delivery that help to epurate the water ?  The efficiency of this service will depend on the naturalness of the stream or the river, that will be the highest with well conserved ecosystems. Here below a short video of an experimental survey […]

Dr. Rodriguez-Roda, the IP of INOWASIA, was invited to the European Institute of Membranes of Montpellier/France from the Université de Montpellier to talk about the Erasmus+ project INOWASIA. There was a lot of interest in the innovative methodology for teaching Problem-based learning, where the student is put on the forefront of the learning process and the teachers becomes a […]

On Monday 26 of September 2022, Dr. Ignasi Rodriguez-Roda, scientific coordinator of the project, gave a class about #PBL (Problem-Based Learning) methodology to some teachers and technicians from #UT3. This way there are new teachers with membranes and IoT expertise who understand better the methodology and will try to prepare some PBL material for the […]

Water quality is a critical challenge in Asia in the context of growing industrialization, urbanization and climate change. Nature-based solutions (NBS), such as constructed wetlands, biofilters, rain gardens and floating parks, could play an important role in reducing urban water pollution, while making cities more livable and resilient. This is the context of the project […]

Wastewater Treatment Plants (#WTP) are an essential aspect of sanitation and water infrastructure. WTPs mission is the collection and treatment of sewage along with purifying and returning the water to the environment. However, there is not enough economic growth to build more WTP capacities and it cannot match the population growth. Only 6% of the […]