Developing an international science research partnerships at a grand scale: The Arequipa Nexus Institute
Abstract
Like many public universities in Peru, the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín (UNSA) in Arequipa is developing new international collaborations to build long-term capacity in science, technology and innovation. UNSA is looking to play a particularly important regional and national role in providing solutions-oriented research to for sustainable utilization of natural resources with minimal tradeoff to the environment. This focus comes in part as a response to congressional legislation in the Nation of Peru challenging its universities to develop the tools and incentives needed to create high quality research, improve student education, and support an innovation economy. Bringing this vision to reality requires major structural and operation modifications, significant financial resources, and models for partnerships with established research universities that can help build capacity and capability.UNSA has aspirations to become a regional research leader in the area of Food-Energy-Water systematics and partnered with Purdue University, Indiana, USA to realize this goal. In this presentation, we discuss the partnership, goals and activities of the Arequipa Nexus Institute for Food, Energy, Water, and the Environment, a new bilateral collaboration between UNSA and Purdue University involving over 130 faculty across both universities. The partnership was initiated with the co-development of targeted technical and research infrastructure to support a network of interrelated, interdisciplinary research projects to identify regional interdependencies among food, water, and energy systems, and explore tradeoffs between land use and the environment.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFMPA54A..03F
- Keywords:
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- 0799 General or miscellaneous;
- CRYOSPHERE;
- 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields;
- GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS;
- 6344 System operation and management;
- POLICY SCIENCES;
- 6610 Funding;
- PUBLIC ISSUES