Asian Deans' Forum

The Fourth Asian Deans’ Forum meeting was held at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in October 2018.

DATE

October 6, 2018

HOST

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

PARTICIPANTS

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, National University of Singapore, Seoul National University, and The University of Tokyo. UNSW Sydney was welcomed as guest.

REPORT

The Fourth Asian Deans’ Forum was held on October 6, 2018, concurrently with the Asian Deans’ Forum 2018 – Rising Stars Women in Engineering Workshop (RSW), at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

The RSW attracted a good number of quality female talents to explore academia profession in Asia. To keep the momentum going, HKUST was asked to create a social media network to retain participants as RSW Alumni. The meeting agreed to hold RSW annually.

Members agreed to continue ADF’s collaborating efforts in (i) RSW, (ii) research workshop, and (iii) summer exchange workshop.

SNU agreed to be the next host and the expected date would be end-September or early-November 2019.

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