Jigme Namgyel Engineering College (JNEC), Royal University of Bhutan (RUB)

Jigme Namgyel Engineering College (JNEC) is one of the constituent colleges of the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB). It is beautifully located atop a hill overlooking the small town of Dewathang which is 18 kilometers from Samdrup Jongkhar, the second gateway to Bhutan from India.

The College was formally launched as the Royal Bhutan Polytechnic on 22nd February 1974 and until 2001, the College was the only tertiary level institute providing education in engineering. The academic programmes offered at JNEC are targeted towards meeting the engineering and management manpower requirement of the country to support the country’s infrastructure development.

Riga Technical University (RTU)

Hellenic Open University (HOU)

HOU is established in 1996 and started its operation in 1998. HOU is a distance-learning university and provides courses in all levels of tertiary education, being the only distance-learning university in Greece. HOU has four Schools: Applied Arts, Humanities, Science and Technology and Social Sciences, 6 undergraduate programs and more than 50 MSc programs, while about other 10 are planned to operate in the near future. HOU has more than 20,000 undergraduate students, more than 20,000 in MSc programs and about 80 PhD students, and occupies the second place among Greek Universities in number of students. HOU has about 45 permanent and more than 2,000 adjunct professors.

Sustainability is very strong in HOU, as several courses, or part of them, in all four Schools are dedicated to it and sustainability is in the core research of several laboratories. HOU created recently an “Environmental Unit”, where environmental and sustainability issues of the university or the education process will be taken into consideration. The target is to decrease the environmental imprint of the University and to include sustainability in all courses and educational procedures.

UPCT, established in 1998, is the 4th largest technical university in Spain (around 6000 students). However, Engineering and Business studies have a long tradition in Cartagena: many of our Schools were founded in the beginning of the last century. This union between youth and tradition give us a dynamic and innovative character, but also a well tried one with a solid foundation. The courses offered by the UPCT include 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycle studies accounting 15 undergraduate programmes, 22 master programmes and 8 doctoral programs.

Research is other essential pillar on UPCT activity, with 90 research and development groups aiming to be not only a place for knowledge transfer, but also a source of scientific and technological progress, promoting joint research and scientific exchange programmes with public and private organizations, as well as with numerous universities. All these activities take place in our 6 Engineering Schools and a Faculty of Business Studies.

UPCT at national scale is integrated within the Sectorial Working groups on Sustainable Development and International Cooperation Actions within the HEIs Spanish Platform (CRUE) appointed by the National Government since 2011.

Currently, at UPCT a working group for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs at the UPCT is developing the new UPCTagenda 2030 for sustainable development (RETODS‐UPCT).

RETODS‐UPCT guarantees the institutional commitment through the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs among all sectors of the university community. RETODS‐UPCT represents a responsible positioning of the UPCT in favor of people, the planet and sustainable development. It is a long‐term Plan that affects all the Institution, UPCT Management and Management structures transversally and with specific mission of driving a coordinated and coherent action to deploy the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs at the University.

The vision of NEC is to evolve as the center of higher learning, excelling in academics, through continued engagements in education, research and outreach as three integrated functions of the college.

In approaching the stated vision, the mission of NEC include:

• Providing the youth with the best opportunities and environment of learning to help them attain high level of academic standard, scientific temper, technical and professional competence and life-skills.
• Train and develop youth as total person, ready to serve the society and people to alleviate their sufferings and improve their quality of life.
• Inculcate the values to appreciate the need for ethical standards in personal, social and public life, to become leaders, to be a voice to influence the society and the nation, and to uphold just social order.