About us

Objectives

The platform is the gateway to collaboration between UGent researchers and educators and ASEAN & South Asia partners in higher education, research, policy and industry. We intend to:

develop a coherent collaboration approach
collate information on UGent expertise in the region
create synergy between ongoing activities
foster new collaborations

ASEAN & South Asia within UGent

The ASEAN & South Asia Platform is one of the 6 UGent regional platforms which constitute a pillar of Ghent University Internationalisation strategy.

other Regional Platforms: East Asia Platform, Eureast Platform, Africa Platform, CESAM Platform (Central and South America) and North America Platform.

Who we are

Management Board

Chairman: Prof. Peter Bossier (Bioscience Engineering)
Co-Chairman: Prof. Christine Yung Hung
Coordinator: Jean Dhont (UGent Internationalisation)
Academic Director for Internationalisation: Prof. Guido Van Huylenbroeck
Faculty representatives:

Faculty	Representative
Bioscience Engineering	Marie Anne Eurie Forio
Engineering and Architecture	Mark Saeys
Law and Criminology	Erwan Lannon
Arts and Philosophy	Stef Slembrouck
Economics and Business Administration	Michael Frömmel
Medicine and Health Sciences	Barbara Vanderstraeten Frauke Coppieters
Political and Social Sciences	Jeroen Adam Bert Suykens
Psychology and Educational Sciences	Martin Valcke Tamara Schellens
Sciences	Johan De Grave Thomas Hermans
Veterinary Medicine	Hans Nauwynck
Pharmaceutical Sciences	Marthe De Boevere Ashish Kumar

Academic advisor: Patrick Sorgeloos

Members

We aim at offering services to all UGent staff members interested in collaborating with ASEAN & South Asia partners. We promote the involvement of external partners, such as:

HoWest, HOGENT & Artevelde Hogeschool
City of Ghent, Province of East-Flanders
Flanders Investment & Trade

Where we are active

ASEAN = Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
SOUTH ASIA = India, Bangladesh, Pakistan