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Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) was established in 1949 as the first public university in Indonesia. It is now ranked among the top 20 in ASEAN. It has 55,000 students and 3,600 faculty members. UGM is in Yogyakarta, the cultural capital and historical center of Java. Both the university and the city are popular among students from other countries, and there are currently 2,300 registered students from abroad, 600 of them from other ASEAN countries. As a world class university, UGM pays great attention to ground-breaking research, as well as to excellence in teaching and community service.

Read more about UGM here: https://ugm.ac.id/en/about-us/3683-history

Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) is one of the 18 faculties in UGM, privileged to be the host for the ASEAN Master in Sustainability Management. It is ranked among the 5% best business schools in the world and is accredited by AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business). The ASEAN master will be an MBA and administered by FEB’s Master in Management (MM) program, with more than 30 years of experience in providing excellence in business management education.

Read more about FEB UGM here: https://feb.ugm.ac.id/en/

University of Agder (UiA) is among the leading higher learning and research institutions in Norway. It has 13,000 students and 1,400 faculty and staff members. It has two modern campuses in the southern part of Norway, and it is gradually taking a stronger international position in pioneering research and innovative study programs. UiA seeks to be an open and inclusive university, characterized by a culture of cooperation and trust. We prepare our students for lifetime learning and responsible leadership. Co-creation of knowledge is the UiA slogan.

Faculty members particularly from the UiA School of Business and Law and the Faculty of Engineering and Science will contribute as lecturers and instructors throughout the ASEAN Master in Sustainability Management.

UiA’s School of Business and Law, with 2,000 students on PhD, Master and Bachelor levels, is also accredited by AACSB. The school’s mission is to co-create knowledge by applying international, innovative and responsible perspectives.

Read more about UiA’s School of Business and Law here: https://www.uia.no/en/about-uia/faculties/school-of-business-and-law

Read more about Faculty of Engineering and Science here: https://www.uia.no/en/about-uia/faculties/faculty-of-engineering-and-science

ASEAN University Network (AUN), founded in 1995, is the formal owner of the ASEAN Master in Sustainability Management. AUN is part of the official administrative structure of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and operates as a cooperative arrangement among 30 universities in the ten ASEAN countries. The AUN Secretariat is in Bangkok, and its Executive Director is the Chairperson of the Study Program Steering Committee. The Dean of UGM’s Faculty of Economics and Business is the Chairperson of the AUN-BE Secretariat, which is the AUN sub-network for Business and Economics.

Read more about AUN here: http://www.aunsec.org/index.php

Norway regards the 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a transformative global roadmap, and the Norwegian government is highly committed to working for climate change mitigation. The funding of the ASEAN Sustainability Management Program is aligned with these priorities.

Norway has pledged up to 3 billion NOK per year to help save tropical forests, while also improving the livelihoods of those who live near the forests. Read more here: https://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/climate-and-environment/id925/

Norway has also recently signed an agreement to provide a NOK 3.2 billion funding for the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Read more here: https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/fund_agreement/id2687262/