Inter-Centre Collaboration - Southeast Asian Ministers of Education ...

3. Discussion Points/Issues
3.1 Opening Session
Welcome address by Dr Bambang Purwantara, Director, SEAMEO BIOTROP
In his welcoming statement, Dr Bambang Purwantara the SEAMEO BIOTROP
Center Director expressed his gratitude and appreciation for being given the
opportunity to host and co-organize the workshop. He further stated that the
active participation of the participants will contribute to the capacity development
of SEAMEO Units.
After mentioning the main objectives of the workshop, Dr Bambang Purwantara
expressed his expectations on the inter-centre collaboration that:
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it can involve all centers in a large scale collaboration, or as many center
possible,
the proposed collaborative program may rely as a cluster of a number of
centers with similar thrusts and mandates,
the outcome of inter-center collaboration may be as simple as a bilateral
center to center collaborative programme which responses to the domestic
demand, and
the outcome may in a form of inter-center programme with a specific purpose
within a country member.
He further mentioned that SEAMEO BIOTROP, SEAMEO SEAMOLEC and
SEAMEO TROPMED/Indonesia have collaborated on a community development
program at Karawang International Industrial City.
At his closing, he thanked the SEAMEO Secretariat, the resource persons and
the organizing committee that have made the organization of the workshop
possible.
Introduction by Dr Tinsiri Siribodhi, Deputy Director for Administration and
Communication, SEAMEO Secretariat
Dr Tinsiri Siribodhi expressed her gratitude to SEAMEO BIOTROP for co-hosting
the workshop, and also to the resource persons and participants. She further
commented that the presence of Centers Director, Deputy Director and key level
staff made the meeting more important.
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