The proposed project is a three-year collaboration between scientists of Europe, ASEAN and policy makerfrom government institutes. Sustainable coastal ecosystem management and conservation via internationaland domestic research network are the main goal of this project. Mangrove forests and forest managementface a variety of challenges due to ecological and socio-economic developments, such as climate changeand an increasing demand for wood from local population and the bioenergy sector.Albeit these challenges affect mangrove ecosystem management over all ASEAN countries, no commonforest policy exists on regional level to date. Also, the current knowledge of mangrove forests in this region islimited and highly uncertain for sustainable management and future rehabilitation such as speciescomposition, carbon stock, height, density, canopy closure and afforestation practices. Effective ecologicalmapping and monitoring is needed for local and national decision-and-policy-makers to support mangroveforest protection and restoration efforts.The proposed project under SEA-EU-NET designed for long term coastal ecosystem management, and toexploit the synergies between forest-based adaptation and restoration strategies. The project would link topolicy maker, current vulnerability assessment, restoration potential and planning, research support to localinitiatives, and knowledge dissemination to contribute to ASEAN research communities. The first part ofproject provides an overview of current state of mangrove forest as well as relevant threats and challengesregarding ASEAN mangrove ecosystem and forest protection. The second part aims to develop modelingand forecasting the effect of restoration measures and the third part focus on the ecosystem service modeldevelopment and recommendation. Scenarios for an effective and feasible approach towards better forestprotection, restoration on regional scale and recommendations for the implementation will be provided.The project activities will focus on Thailand and Mekong delta in Vietnam. Impact would be achieved throughinfluencing the technical scientific capacity of forest restoration, monitoring and creating international networkto improve local management practices

In recent years, there has been increasing recognition at many levels that finding and implementing solutions to complex global problems requires deeply integrated activity from many disciplines, often called a transdisciplinary approach, and a workforce with the capabilities to implement such an approach. Traditionally higher education (HE) has been organised in discipline siloes with organisational, language and world view barriers to mutual understanding, let alone the sort of transdisciplinary action necessary to address complex global problems. This project will develop and implement within Thailand, a transdisciplinary postgraduate programme focused around the issue of climate change and specifically the call to action encompassed in Green Deal agendas. The courses will be implemented in the first instance by a Faculty of Agriculture (Kasetsart University), a Faculty of Public Health (Thammasat University) and a School of Environment, Resources and Development (Asian Institute of Technology) supported by Maastricht University (Netherlands) and Heidelberg University (Germany). Together the partners will develop and deliver nine transdisciplinary courses focused on Green Deal approaches, which will be combined at the end of the project to form a new degree of Master of Science in Transdisciplinary Practice.Partnerships with key government, private and civil society organisations are considered to be critical to ensuring the relevance and impact of the courses; so, these agencies will be involved from the beginning in planning the overall programme, developing and delivering curricula for each course. In addition, opportunities will be provided for personnel from these agencies to participate in courses for training.Through the Hub for Innovation in HE, the project seeks to engage other HEIs and relevant agencies to foster transdisciplinary education and practice, disseminate information and lessons learnt and sustain capacity building initiatives.

Facing increasing needs to feed human populations requires, more than ever, enhancing quantity, quality, safety and security of agricultural products, and, at the same time, to reduce environmental contamination. Thus, in livestock production, it is required to control blood-feeding flies such as tabanids and stable flies which are responsible of annual losses estimated at 130Kg of milk/cow and 25-60Kg of meat/ox. To the huge blood spoliation (up to 0.5 liter/day) are added: stress, loss of appetite and energy, immunosuppression and mechanical transmission of viruses (equine infectious anemia, ovine catarrhal fever), bacteria (Q fever, anthrax) and parasites (Besnoitia, Trypanosoma), with dramatic medical and economic consequences. Control of hematophagous flies is most often neglected or occasional, since insecticide spraying on walls or animals (spray, pour on) is expensive, of low efficacy and meets increasing chemo-resistance problems. Moreover, residues contamination of animal products and environment is unacceptable, especially for organic farming. Tsetse fly control using insecticide impregnated targets proved to be efficient in Africa, because tsetse flies have low prolificacy and are very sensitive to insecticides. Unfortunately this does not apply to other hematophagous flies such as Tabanids (> 4000 species present in all types of environments and climates), Stomoxys (one species is cosmopolite) and other hematophagous insects such as Haematobia and Musca crassirostris, which are highly prolific, and may develop early chemo-resistance to insecticides. FlyScreen project aims at the development and optimization of efficient, low cost and low or non-polluting methods for the control of hematophagous insects. It will consist in: (i) designing and optimizing specific color baited attractant screens/traps (excluding pollinators); (ii) developing and evaluating in laboratory conditions various toxic systems including: growth hormones or insecticides incorporation into polymers (slow release), single or combined, UV and water-protection and/or special abrasive coating (which advantage is the absence of chemo-resistance) and attractants; (iii) evaluating and validating these screens in semi-liberty and field conditions to measure efficacy and environmental safety; and (iv) promoting low-cost, low-polluting, and possibly insecticide-free control methods. FlyScreen project will be carried out in partnership by UMR17/InterTryp (CIRAD-bios) bringing expertise in biting insects and tropical field spots for evaluation, as well as expertise on mathematical modeling to support impact and cost studies; UMR1225/ IHAP (National Veterinary School of Toulouse ; ENVT), bringing biological material (evaluation on laboratory reared stomoxes) and field spots in France, UMR 5175/CEFE UPVM (University Paul-Valery, Montpellier), bringing expertise in stomoxes and biting insect trapping technologies, Kasetsart University (Bangkok, Thailand) offering facilities for field experimentation in a rich entomofauna area, and “AtoZ” enterprise, specialized in the development, production and commercialization of attractive fabrics and/or mosquito nets, processed under various technologies including biocide incorporation and coating. Additional support from CIRDES and IRD will allow extending the evaluation of toxic fabrics and screens to tsetse flies. Relevant treatment technologies and prototyping will be handled by AtoZ enterprise, while optimization, validation and safety assessment of screens will be handled by public organisms. These low cost targeted and environmentally friendly control tools should be easy to adopt. They will bring a major breakthrough in the control of hematophagous flies, so far neglected due to the low efficacy and high cost of current insecticide spraying systems. Development of insecticide-free attractive lethal screens is the ultimate goal of FlyScreen.

"Project aims to strengthen forestry higher education in Laos and Thailand based on the priority themes of ‘Sustainable forest management’ and ‘Forest restoration & rural livelihoods’; with the crosscutting themes of climate change mitigation & adaptation. Both countries have high levels of forest loss and degradation, and are highly vulnerable to climate change. Within this context, a key challenge for both countries are to make forest management more sustainable, socially inclusive, and to conserve and restore forests while providing development opportunities. Yet, their HEIs are inadequately equipped to provide the education services needed to address these challenges. Forestry students need to be trained not only in production forestry, but also in social, environmental, economic, and policy aspects. The project includes 2 Programme HEIs (UH & CZU), and 2 Partner HEIs each in Laos (SKU & SU) and Thailand (KUFF & CMU). Following the regional priorities, project aims to support modernization and internationalisation of Partner HEIs curriculum, and support the development of new teaching and learning tools (including MOOCs & open source ICT tools), innovative methodologies and pedagogical approaches. Expected Outputs:- 2 new MSc programs developed in Lao HEIs: ""Forest resource management"" and ""Rural livelihoods & forest environment""- 22 New courses developed, and 21 existing courses upgraded - Upgraded teaching material and equipment- 1 journal article published on forestry HE development in Laos & Thailand- Dissemination videos, posters, newsletters and leaflets produced.Expected Impacts: - Increased number of graduates with the knowledge and skills needed for sustainable forest management, forest restoration and rural livelihoods, climate change mitigation and adaptation- Improved management and conservation of forest resources for sustainability and livelihoods - Improved research capacity and engagement in international processes"

The potential emerging pathogens is a reality in Southeast Asia. Since a vector borne parasitic or viral disease is concerned, its investigation requires various expertises as well as an efficient organisation to articulate those expertises in a rational procedure. In Southeast Asia, Thailand is one of the more advanced counties where the improvement of expertise could be of the benefit to the country as well as of the region at whole.The main objective is to improve knowledge (What to know?) and skills (How to do?) of trainers who will be able to teach students in their respective Universities in the different areas involved in such investigation named: Applied Medical Entomology, Vector borne Parasitic and Viral Diseases, Ecology & Environment, Epidemiology, Data Management, Data Analysis and GIS. This is a Training of Trainers programme with the objectives:• To organise a field experiment training for the staff of the partners Universities• To provide them with educational suppport material including ICT products (English edited videos based on the field training and subtitled in Thai)• To update and accrediate curricula of teaching units at partners UniversitiesThis capacity building program is based on a field experiment teaching to better develop skills in terms of practical investigation.The aim is to improve knowledge and skills of the students, initially at the partner universities and over. To provide the participants with educational support documents including ITCE-based products, ensuring their dissemination and their quality at the initial training level in their respective Universities. It will also facilitate the potential exploitation of those outcomes at a larger geographical scale, for example by adapting the language.The long term impact would be to improve knowledge and skills of experts for a more efficient and, faster coordinated investigation.