Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitating communication and collaboration among key stakeholders, including government officials, UN representatives, research institutions, and community organizations, is essential. This effort involves organizing meetings, focus groups, and workshops to gather insights and foster partnerships for research initiatives.
Data Collection and Analysis: Collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data related to social, economic, and environmental policies in Cambodia is crucial. Employing diverse research methodologies ensures a comprehensive understanding and valuable insights into the impacts of these policies.
Policy Recommendations: Synthesizing research findings into clear and actionable policy recommendations is vital for Cambodian lawmakers and UN agencies. Preparing detailed reports and briefs helps present research outcomes and facilitates informed decision-making.
Networking and Advocacy: Representing the Office in local and international forums to advocate for evidence-based policy development and disseminate research results is important. Building relationships with policymakers and UN officials promotes awareness of critical research findings and their implications for policy.
1.2 Erasmus Project Coordination
Project Management: Effective project management is critical to the success of Erasmus projects. This involves overseeing the planning, execution, and evaluation of these projects to ensure they align with the goals of educational exchange and policy research. The role includes coordinating with educational institutions, partners, and stakeholders involved in Erasmus program activities, ensuring that all parties are working cohesively towards common objectives.
Communication and Collaboration:
Communication and collaboration are essential for the smooth functioning of Erasmus projects. Facilitating communication between partner universities and institutions involved in these projects is crucial to ensure seamless collaboration. This requires organizing meetings, workshop sessions, and training programs designed to enhance cooperation among participants, fostering a collaborative environment conducive to achieving project goals.
Monitoring and Reporting: Monitoring and reporting are integral components of managing Erasmus projects. Developing robust monitoring frameworks is necessary to assess the progress and impact of these projects accurately. Additionally, preparing progress reports and documentation required by Erasmus program administration and participating entities ensures that all stakeholders are informed of the project's status and outcomes, facilitating transparency and accountability.
Capacity Building: Capacity building is a vital aspect of Erasmus initiatives. Organizing training sessions and events aimed at enhancing the skills and knowledge of researchers, educators, and policymakers involved in these initiatives is crucial. By promoting best practices and facilitating knowledge sharing among participants, these efforts help foster a culture of continuous learning, ensuring that all participants can contribute effectively to the project's success.
Evaluation and Feedback: Evaluation and feedback are essential for the continuous improvement of Erasmus projects. Conducting thorough evaluations to assess the effectiveness and outcomes of these projects allows for a comprehensive understanding of their impact. Gathering feedback from participants is also critical, as it helps identify areas for improvement and address any challenges encountered during project implementation. This iterative process ensures that future initiatives can be refined and optimized for greater success.
Top 10 student research series: Promoting research writing and publication is central to a strategic goal of NUM. In this respect, encouraging research writing and publication among students is in alignment to the university’s continuous effort in promoting research culture and improving quality research outputs. This will ultimately accelerate the university’s progress toward its strategic goal. NUM Student Research Series is the student research publication project. This publication contains quality research theses, that are rigorously reviewed and published in a brief format, for undergraduate students at the university. The objective of this publication project is to motivate students and provide an enabling environment to publish their research outputs as well as promoting research culture and improving quality of research of NUM students and of NUM affiliates at large.
NUM research series: Improving the quality of education and to promote research culture, NUM has initiated NUM Research Series, to be used as a platform for its faculty members to publish their research outputs. The Center is responsible for managing this publication with collaboration from other researchers inside the university. To date, seven NUM Research Series have been released.
Collaborative research with other universities: Collaborative research is one of the main activities under the NUM Center of Excellence for R&D and Innovation. CERI has initiated collaborations with universities in Japan and other countries in the region to promote academic research and student exchanges
To accommodate to that request, the leadership of the NUM with collaboration with Development Partners and relevant stakeholders is opening a new undergraduate program known as “digital economy, smart cities and financial technology” which is an international program which would respond to the needs mentioned above. In this regard, the NUM is seeking collaboration from UNDP to build a digital economy lab to support digital economy research and the new academic program.
The digital economy lab has been used as a platform for researchers and students to conduct research and study about digital economy, smart cities and financial technology which are recommended by the Royal Government of Cambodia as top priorities to respond to the industrial revolution 4.0 and to develop Cambodian future human capital. This digital economy lab is a part of the NUM Center of Excellence aims to improve expertise in the area of digital economy, smart cities and financial technology and make the most of its resources to help the business smart-up to improve.
The Digital economy lab provides a focal point for knowledge management, with the overall goal being the ability to capture new knowledge and practices from inside and outside of the university.
