The British Council Thailand is pleased to announce the second series of Global Education Dialogues. The Global Education Dialogue is a series of regional conferences which cover nine Asian countries.
This year for the first time British Council Thailand with support from Research and Researcher for Industry (RRi), Thailand Research Fund, will host a conference on “Co-innovation for social and economic growth” on 13 and 14 February 2014 in Phuket, Thailand.
The conference will look at the opportunities and challenges in utilising findings from research for the benefit of the community, society, and the national economy. It will explore how academic research can work with industry, entrepreneurs and the government to find innovative ways to collaborate together.
Participants will include world-renowned educators, policy makers and influential thought-leaders in British higher education and from the region.
Besides the GED conference, we are working with Thailand Research Fund to organize the “Researcher Links” project which is aimed to strengthen links and collaborations between the two countries. This project will fund selected proposals to run workshops in Thailand involving Thai and UK researchers. Later this year, we will also announce travel grants for the researchers to run their projects in the UK.
This would be a first positive step for us to engage more with the researchers, creating initial links between the public and private sectors to make the right connections.
If you are interested in the event or have any enquiries, Please contact Ms Sarita Suwannarat.