WEEK # 27, 3 - 9 July, 2023

In this issue:

A. Announcements 

B. Workshops/ Conferences

C. Visitors/ MoU/ Agreement Signing 

D. Faculty & Staff Travel

E. Classified (Job)

 

A. Announcement

 

 

1. Change in Cafeteria Cash Card System to Direct Payment to Cafeteria

 Email from Director of OFAM on 30 June 2023
 
Please be informed that starting from 1 July 2023, AIT Cafeteria will cease using the cash card system. Customers can now pay by cash, scan a QR code, or direct bank transfer to the vendor's shop directly.
 
For the remaining cash value in the AIT Cafeteria Card or Faculty ID/Staff ID/Student ID Card, you have until 31 July 2023 to get your refund at the AIT Cafeteria cashier.
 
Please be guided accordingly.
 

2. Internet FTTH services in residential areas taken over by Helpdesk from AIS

Email from AIT Helpdesk from 29 June 2023

Starting from 1 July 2023, Helpdesk will take over the FTTH based Internet services from AIS. Therefore, from 1 July 2023, please contact Helpdesk if you have any problem with Internet connection in your dorm/house and do not contact AIS anymore.

Helpdesk's contact points:
Email: helpdesk@ait.ac.th
Tel. 6082 (025246082 from mobile)

 

 

  Workshops/ Conferences  

 

1) Professional Development Course on "Connecting Learning with Monitoring and Evaluation: A Strategy for MEL Operationalization and Result-Based M&E"

Date: 10 – 21 July 2023

Venue: AIT Conference Center, AIT Campus

Learn from practitioners on how to develop M & E pathways that foster measurement of results and respond to current changes of M&E contexts. Broadening

perspectives for innovative ways to develop tools and reporting mechanisms that help to make decisions for project implementation.

Learning Modules and Contents Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation

Module-1: Project Cycle Management and M&E

  • Project cycle management and monitoring and evaluation
  • Key concepts of result-based management
  • Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – A new M&E framework
  • Financial and risk management in M&E

Module-2: Key Concepts of Result-based Management and MEL

  • Theory of change
  • Result-mapping
  • Develop result framework/log frame
  • Work plan/action and intervention plan
  • M&E approaches for donor projects
  • Tools for result-based MEL
  • Gender perspective in M&E

Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation

  • Baseline benchmarking
  • Most significant changes
  • Impact after actions review
  • Research design for M&E and approach for data collection
  • M&E tools and techniques for robust impact analysis
  • Data management and dashboard for M&E
  • DEMER Model: Data, Evidence, Measurement, Unpack Errors and Reporting

Module-4: M&E Communication and Reporting

  • M&E reporting/quarterly / biannual/ annual
  • Packaging M&E data for internal and external communication/ audience
  • M&E reflection and learning platform/innovation platform
  • Stakeholder engagement-based on the pyramid approach
  • Stories from the field
  • Donor reporting

For more information and registration pls. visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/connecting-learning-monitoring-and-evaluation-strategy-mel-operationalization-and-result

 

 

2) Professional Development Course on “Carbon Markets and Climate Finance” 

Climate finance provides the means to the implementation of projects, carbon pricing provides the incentive to mobilize the most “cost-effective” mitigation options. Carbon pricing can be a source of climate finance: with emissions trading through the auctioning of allowances, with carbon tax through tax levied, revenues raised can be used for adaptation and/or mitigation activities.

Date: 2 – 13 October 2023

Venue: AIT Campus

For more information and registration please visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/carbon-markets-and-climate-finance

3.  Professional development on “Strategic Human Resource Management and Business Leadership”

AIT Extension invites you to join the training on professional development on “Strategic Human Resource Management and Business Leadership”.

This training course is designed to support HR leaders and professionals in their quest for best practices that will be more beneficial to their organization’s human resources and for the achievement of business targets. By providing them with a better understanding of how to be both strategic and human-centered in their HR strategies and initiatives, and giving them opportunities to explore various frameworks, tools, and techniques, they will be able to translate strategic thinking into actionable outcomes that will make all stakeholders happy.

For more information and registration please visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/strategic-human-resource-management-and-business-leadership-0

Date: 16 – 20 October 2023

Venue: AIT Conference Center

 

C. Visitors/ MoU/ Agreement 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D. Faculty & Staff Travel

  • Prof. Kazuo Yamamoto, President/ Colombo, Srilanka/ 2 - 7 July 2023
  • Prof. P. Abdul Salam, Dean-SERD/ Bologna, Italy/ 16 - 21 July 2023
  • Mr. Shawn Kelly, Executive Director, OIPA/ Shenzhen, China/ 27 June - 3 July 2023
  • Ms. Danielle Duanduan Duan, OIA/ Shenzhen, China/ 26 June - 4 July 2023
  • Dr. Kuo Chieh Chao, Faculty-SET/ Taipei, Taiwan/ 27 - 30 July 2023
  • Dr. Indrajit Pal, Faculty-SET/ Kolkata, India/ 6 - 14 July 2023
  • Dr. Indrajit Pal, Faculty-SET/ Singapore/ 3 - 5 July 2023
  • Dr. Haya Ullah, Faculty-SERD/ Pakistan/ 18 July - 11 Aug 2023
  • Prof. Weerakorn Ongsaul, Faculty-SERD/ China/ 7 - 11 July 2023
  • Dr. Guilberto H. Borongam, Director, RRC-AP/ Hanoi, Vietnam/ 4 - 6 July 2023
  • Prof. Kyoko Kusakabe, Faculty-SERD/ Tokyo, Fukuoka, Japan/ 24 - 31 July 2023
  • Prof. Joyashree Roy, Faculty-SERD/ United Kingdom & USA/ 10 June - 10 July 2023
  • Ms. Rabina Twayana, GIC/ Austria/ 25 June- 23 July 2023
  • Dr. Chaklam Silpasuwanchai, Faculty-SET/ University of Bologna, Italy/ 15 - 21 July 2023
  • Dr. Chutiporn Anutariya, Faculty-SET/ University of Bologna, Italy/ 15 - 21 July 2023
  • Dr. Vatcharaporn Esichaikul, Faculty-SET/ University of Bologna, Italy/ 15 - 21 July 2023
  • Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA/ Sri Lanka & Australia/ 1 - 16 July 2023
  • Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA /Taipei, Taiwan/ 27 - 30 July 2023
  • Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA /Hongkong/ 20 - 22 August 2023
  • Ms. Sirikate Owasit, OAAA/ Taipei, Taiwan/ 27 - 30 July 2023
  • Ms. Lucena Talaid, OAAA/ Hong Kong/ 20 - 22 August 2023
  • Ms. Sirikate Owasit, OAAA/ Colombo, Srilanka/ 1 - 5 July 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E. Classifieds (jobs) 

 

Faculty Position:

Faculty Position, SERD/FAB/FEBT

 

Staff Position:

1. Director, OFIN

2. Structural Engineer, AITS

3. Business Development Officer, AIT Solutions

4. Senior Advancement Officer, OAA