Thammasat for SDGs

Thammasat Field Hospital to fight COVID-19

Thammasat University hospital collaborated with the government and provided a field hospital with 308 beds to deal with COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand from late March until mid-May 2020.

According to the latest information on May 17 2020, the hospital received referred cases from Thammasat University Hospital, and other universities from March 26 to May 17, in total 38 cases. From all cases, 37 cases were treated and sent home and 1 transferred back to the Thammasat University Hospital.

This initiative indicates the intention of the university to improve health and well-being of Thai people in collaboration with national health institutions.

Website:

https://www.hospital.tu.ac.th/tufieldhos/

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L90jJXksgsO-2NcTvylXJ6m422SsnTOT/view?usp=sharing

ถาม-ตอบ COVID-19

The Thai translation of the comic “The Planet and the 17 Goals”

SDG Move contacted Margreet de Heer, a Dutch author, and got an approval for the translation of the comic “The Planet and the 17 Goals”, which is the cooperation between UNICEF, PCI Media, World’s Largest Lesson, PVBLIC, and Reading with Pictures. The comic was released for the first time in English version in September 2015, and was then translated into several languages around the world.

SDG Move team translated the comic and published via SDG Move website and facebook page in July 2020. It can be accessed via the link below. It has been well received by Thai audience especially Thai teachers who want to teach SDGs to their pupils.

Link to comic: https://www.sdgmove.com/2020/07/21/the-planet-and-the-17-goals-thai/

PBIC workshop on “Indigenous Practices for Sustainable Social Development”

PBIC organized a workshop on “Indigenous Practices for Sustainable Social Development” on September 25th 2018 at Thammasat University, Tha Prachan Campus. Accordingly, the presentation and discussion in this workshop is summarized as follows. You can also download a pdf version of the Summary Workshop Report in the link below.

Website: http://www.pbic.tu.ac.th/2018/10/09/workshop-report-indigenous-practices-for-sustainable-social-development/

Thammasat University hosted The 3rd National Conference on Volunteerism

Thammasat University hosted the 3rd National Conference on Volunteerism on January 9-10, 2018, at Tha Prachan Campus, supported by Thai Health Promotion Foundation. The main theme is the “Volunteerism form Sustainable Development”.

In this event, Thammasat partnered with 21 organisations.

• Volunteer Spirit Network)
• Ministry of Social Development and Human Security
• ศูนย์ประสานงานองค์กรอาสาสมัครแห่งชาติ
• Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO)
• United Nation Volunteer
• Mahidol University
• Chiang Mai University
• Prince of Songkla University
• Thai Volunteer Service
• The Mirror Foundation
• Why,I,Why
• Khonthai Foundation
• Hundred Projects to change the country (Khonthai Foundation)
• Yuvabadhana Foundation
• Giving Back Association
• Amnesty International
• Creative Citizen
• National Health Security Office
• Jitarsa Bank
• Puey School of Development Studies, Thammasat University
• Knowledge Network Institute of Thailand

Please see website: http://www.volunteerspirit.org/?p=33623

Thammasat University participated in the formulation of EU-Roadmap on CSO-SDG

SDG Move cooperated and participated in the series of workshops organised by IBF international consulting, financed by the European Union, to formulate civil society action plan in driving the agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals between 2020-2022.

Photo by: IBF International Consulting, and European Union

For the workshop on August 19, 2020, Asst. Prof. Chol Bunnag, Faculty of Economics and director of SDG Move, was giving background on SDG and progress of SDGs at all levels to the CSO participants and discussed plans for 4 clusters.

(i) Activity cluster on Evidence-based information/data for monitoring by CSOs and Preparation of an Independent Report on SGDs,
(ii) Activity cluster on Monitoring Government Implementation on SDGs,
(iii) Activity Cluster on Building Alliances on SDGs, and
(iv) Activity Cluster on Public Communications on SDGs by CSOs.

SDG Move play roles in supporting capacity building for CSOs and responsible for cluster (i) of the CSO-SDG plan.

Please see the policy brief in the document:

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SDG Move at Regional Workshop on Urban Nexus

SDG Move (SDG Research and Support Programme) joined a panel in the Ninth Regional Workshop on Integrated Research Management in Asian Cities: The Urban Nexus: Safeguarding finite water-energy-land resources for future generations, on 22 to 23 May 2019. This workshop is organizsed by GIZ in cooperation with UNESCAP and Local Government for Sustainability (ICLEI).

Dr. Nuttavikhom (Kay) Phanthuwongpakdee, an expert on resilience cities and SDG11 of SDG Move, was a discussant in session 6: Employing Resource Integration to Achieve Global Goals: Accelerating Progress to Meet Our Commitments). Please see the attachment for the details of the workshop.

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SDG Lab: School of Global Studies

The School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, launched SDG Lab to bring together academics, experts, students, innovators, and local communities to create solutions to mobilise Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

SDG Lab mission covers the following areas:

1) Outreach Work: Connecting SDG framework with local communities and context

2) SDG Innovation Process: Design sprints, incubators, accelerators, and hackathons.

3) SDG mapping and training:

4) Research in SDG

SDG Move: SDG Research and Support Programme

SDG Move or SDG Research and Support Programme is a research programme under Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University. It is one of the first research programme in the country established specifically for SDGs. It is also regarded as one of a few SDG knowledge hubs in the country.

SDG Move was established in 2016 as a cooperation between the Faculty and Thailand Research Fund (TRF). It functioned as a strategic research issue unit (SRI Unit) that follow academic and practical movement of SDG implementation and set a direction for SDG-related research funding each year. So far it has funded a series of research for baseline for each SDG in the context of Thailand, and another series about localisation of SDGs.

After the establishment of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESRI), TRF was dissolved and reformulated to be the office of Thailand Science Research and Innovation Committee (TSRI), and no longer able to fund the SRI units. SDG Move then moved back to the Faculty in late 2019.

Website: https://www.sdgmove.com/