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Thammasat Pattaya’s EECmd Project – Smart Campus and Medical Hub

According to Assoc.Prof.Gasinee Witoonchart, Rector of Thammasat University, and Assoc.Prof.Md.Kammal Kummar Pawa, Vice Rector for Special Affairs, the future goal of Thammasat University, Pattaya campus is to become a Medical Hub, have Digital Hospital driven by AI, and to become a Smart Campus.

Dr. Nattadon Pannucharoenwong, Assistant to the Rector for Administration, Thammasat University Pattaya campus, reveals that “Thai medical services are growing steadily, thus Thammasat University, Pattaya Campus aims to become an Academic Hub, a Medical Hub and a Service Hub for a full range of medical services.”

“Plus, we aim to establish strategies to become an i-Campus @Pattaya. For example, we will create a smart bus stop, smart trash can with a sensor system, use electric vehicles (EV), produce pure energy with Solar Roof and Float Solar cells, and be a Smart Campus model that will be a Paperless Campus in the future,” Dr Nattadon adds.

Thammasat University Hospital, Pattaya campus, is located on “EECmd, Thammasat University, Pattaya campus”. The university’s goal is to be a digital hospital and use software such as patient application, Telecare, electronic medical record, Beacon system @ Wifi with queuing system and patient service system.

The hospital will adopt IOT (Internet of Things) and medical AI like robotics to give patient service instead of non-skill labors. In the future, the university also plans to establish a Medical Robot training center to support diploma courses from Chulabhorn International College of Medicine.

Dr. Nattadon Pannucharoenwong also explains that the operation of Smart Campus or Smart City consists of Smart Environment, Smart Energy, Smart Mobility, Smart Living, Smart People.

The teaching section will focus on the Advance Digital Learning Environment and providing international courses and bilingual courses in Medical Science, Engineering, and Science, and Technology. The variety of courses intends produce efficient personnel into the labor market in accordance with being “EECmd Thammasat University Pattaya campus”.

The Faculty of Science and Technology will be responsible for teaching and learning basic courses. For the internships, Thammasat University will send students for internships in organizations and agencies in the Eastern region.

Moreover, it was planned to establish Thammasat University, Pattaya campus, to be a regional examination center for various examinations by cooperating with other organizations.

The academic cooperation and development of cooperation in various forms with external agencies are still in the process of discussing and preparing a memorandum of cooperation.

GISTDA is cooperation on short-term course development, knowledge sharing, curriculum development, teaching and technology transfer, research and innovation that aims to develop manpower in the form of Re- skill, Up-skill, and New-Skill in response to the EEC.

DEPPA is for establishing a digital human development institute.

Rayong Hospital is cooperating on producing doctors and Doctor of Medicine programs with Chulabhorn International College of Medicine.

Thammasat University, Pattaya campus also aims to become a research center of excellence and social service in the Eastern region.

Please see the original article here.

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30th Anniversary of the Department of Sustainable Development Technology

In April 2019, the Department of Sustainable Development Technology (SDT) organized the 30th Anniversary event of the SDT (previously Department of Rural Technology) in the theme of “The path of Dhamma, Self-sufficient innovation, and Sustainable Communities” from April 26-28, 2019.

Activities in the event included exhibitions, demonstrations, and seminars on the following topics: smart farming, food safety, organic farming, health and well-being, yoga, alternative medical practices, alternative energies (solar energy, biofuel, etc.), disaster management, etc.

This activity was open for the general public, including rural communities, so as to transfer knowledge of the department to the public. The department also cooperated with Pathumthani province in organizing technology transfer workshop on solar energy during the event. See photos from the event here.

Please see the relevant documents below:

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The SDG-Foresight project for the Thailand SRI Strategic Plan

From March to June 2020, SDG Move undertook policy-focused research for Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI), an organization under the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation. It was the analysis of data and the design of future scenarios to support the science research and innovation plan. TSRI wants this development plan to be the catalyst of change that would steer Thailand to progress more sustainably and inclusively along the line of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The research was conducted at two levels, namely national and regional level. Foresight (i.e. Horizon Scanning and Delphi) was used as the research methodology. Data collection was conducted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the national level, the SDG Move research team did the horizon scanning by reviewing secondary data related to all SDGs from national and international data source, as well as scanning social signals appearing in social medias and news. Then 60 experts were selected and asked to do adapted Delphi surveys. The surveys were conducted two rounds. The first round was to verify the critical sustainability issues found from the Horizon Scanning. The second round was to prioritize the issues, using two main criteria namely the level of importance and the level of policy readiness.

Moreover, SDG Move also worked with 6 regional teams, using the same methodology, to obtain each region’s crucial sustainability challenges, as well as to assess knowledge stock and gap for these challenges. The findings were used as inputs for TSRI strategic plan for budget year 2021.

Please see the report here:

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SDG Move phase II

SDG Move, under Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University, was operating as a Strategic Research Issue (SRI) Unit number 14 on SDGs for Thailand Research Fund (TRF), one of the largest granting agency at the time. The role for SDG Move as SRI unit was to follow the implementation and academic progress regarding SDGs both at national and global level, and specify areas in which TRF should grant research fund.

In the period between 2018-2019, SDG Move focused the areas of research grant on the theme of Localizing SDGs as well as base-line research on SDG 3, 6, 10, 11 and 17. It also analyzed the Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI) strategic plan for budget year 200 against the SDGs. It is found that the TSRI strategic plan for budget year 2020 was quite imbalance as the plan was focusing on economic policies.

Please more details on SDG Move here, and its official website here.

Please the report of SDG Move phase II here:

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SDG Move: SDG Research and Support Programme

SDG Move or SDG Research and Support Programme is a research programme under Faculty of Economics, Thammasat University. It is one of the first research programme in the country established specifically for SDGs. It is also regarded as one of a few SDG knowledge hubs in the country.

SDG Move was established in 2016 as a cooperation between the Faculty and Thailand Research Fund (TRF). It functioned as a strategic research issue unit (SRI Unit) that follow academic and practical movement of SDG implementation and set a direction for SDG-related research funding each year. So far it has funded a series of research for baseline for each SDG in the context of Thailand, and another series about localisation of SDGs.

After the establishment of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation (MHESRI), TRF was dissolved and reformulated to be the office of Thailand Science Research and Innovation Committee (TSRI), and no longer able to fund the SRI units. SDG Move then moved back to the Faculty in late 2019.

Website: https://www.sdgmove.com/