RCE Penang-2011

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Submitted by asyirah on Wed, 2011-07-06 12:18
1. General Information
Contact Name(s): 
Associate Professor Dr. Norizan Md Nor
Organizational Affiliation : 
RCE Penang, Centre for Global Sustainability Studies
Role in the project: 
Project Leader
E-Mail Address(es): 
norizan@usm.my
2. Project Information
1. Project title: 
Enhancing Sustainalbe Living within Universiti Sains Malaysia and its Neighboring Communities
2. Project Description: 
The main objectives of this project is to promote sustainable lifestyle from USM campus to the neighbouring communities, to engage participants from different levels of the communities and to explore challenges for a comprehensive implementation of sustainability.
3. Project Status: 
Ongoing
4. Key Words
Other: 
Waste Management
5. Project categories
Project categories: 
Education
Research
Awareness building
Influencing policy processes
Networking and partnership development
Material production
6. Expected outcomes:: 
The communities are expected to have a better understanding of some basic components for sustainability such as; recycling and composting. It is aimed for this project to encourage the communities out side USM to actively participate and practice recycling and to an extend composting.
7. Duration of the Project:: 
1 April 2011 - 30 March 2012
3. Project Leadership & Vision
8. Project coordination (e.g. teams): 
Centre for Global Sustainability Studies, CGSS; RCE Penang; local authority; schools and communities around USM
9. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
2
b. Transactional: 
4
c. Transformational: 
4
4. Project results
10. Project results : 
Few campaigns were conducted in shopping malls and schools to increase the sensitivity of the citizens and students towards sustainablity related activities such as recycling. Recycle bins have been granted to several schools and some teachers and students in each school are trained to conduct and run the recycling and composting projects in their schools.
11. Contribution to reforms and innovations: 
The project encourages university management to change campus waste management policy and practices.
13.Core Partners: 
Universiti Sains Malaysia, RCE Penang, Centre for Global Sustainability Studies, Penang Municipal Council, Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing Corporation, Schools, residential associations
5. Partnership and networking
14. Project Network
a. Information network: 
5
b. Knowledge network: 
4
c. Innovation network: 
1
6. Participation
15. Type of involvement: 
Schools and shopping malls are invited to run their own recycling and composting programs. RCE Penang and CGSS have provided them with the basic infrastructures and training to start the project.
16. Participation opportunities
a. Informational participation: 
4
b. Consultation participation: 
4
c. Decision influencing participation : 
2
7. Education & Learning
17. Educational activities: 
Several campaigns were conducted in different locations and in schools to raise the awareness among the communities and students.
18. Learning activities: 
Stakeholder meetings, surveys and feed backs during awareness campaigns were used to improve project activities.
19. Educational activities
a. Theory: 
3
b. Discussion: 
4
c. Interactive and Multidimensional "action oriented education": 
3
8. Research Integration
20. Research & Development (R&D): 
Various composting techniques for different communities (schools, residentials, institutional)
21. Research partners: 
School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia; Biotechnologist
22. Description of research
a. Disciplinary: 
2
b. Interdisciplinary: 
6
c. Transdisciplinary: 
2
Type: 
Project Reports
Region: 
Asia-Pacific
Community: 
SCP,Livelihood and Well-being
Community_second: 
Higher Education
Issue: 
Higher Education
Country: 
Malaysia