Sustainability for Diverse and Dispersed Community

Universities are working in a dynamic and changing landscape of today’s education. In reconfiguring universities for the future, universities need to ensure its relevance as institute of higher learning towards civil, social, economic and moral issues. In response to the calls around the globe for universities to be deeply engaged and networked with societies around it, University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) had strategically positioned itself by establishing a strategic focus on sustainability for diverse and dispersed community. Being the premier public university in Sarawak, UNIMAS presence in the state plays a very significant and impactful roles in transforming the community via various avenues such as knowledge transfer programme, technology transfer programme and university social responsibilities programme.

The establishment of UNIMAS Community Sustainability Centre, formerly known as UNIMAS Engage, in 2015, aims to lead and coordinate industries and communities related development projects and activities by linking UNIMAS innovative products/services/expertise to solve industry and community problems, and also supporting towards achieving the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The community innovation programme characteristics are based on Blue Ocean Strategy Principles that are high impact, low cost, rapid execution and most importantly, must be sustainable. The ...

Congratulations to Nur Adilla Binti Shazali, from Civil Engineering Department on attaining IEM Sarawak Chairman’s Award 2019 - Best Final Year Engineering Student.