{"id":3925,"date":"2014-07-19T02:32:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T02:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=3925"},"modified":"2015-04-24T02:35:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T02:35:07","slug":"sustainable-energy-cooperation-between-ukm-and-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/july-2014\/sustainable-energy-cooperation-between-ukm-and-ecuador\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Energy Cooperation Between UKM and Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Ftahun-2014%2Fjuly-2014%2Fsustainable-energy-cooperation-between-ukm-and-ecuador%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=3925&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"createdate\">SATURDAY, 19 JULY 2014 07:22<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/Ecuador01.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin<br \/>\nPix Ikhwan Hashim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 16 July 2014 \u2013 The National University of Malaysia (UKM) is to cooperate with the South American nation of Ecuador to undertake research and innovation in producing sustainable and renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A memorandum of Understanding (MoU) enabling both countries to develop and acquire knowledge in sustainable energy, particularly solar, wind and hydrogen fuel cell power was signed here today by UKM Vice Chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Noor Azlan Ghazali and Ecuador\u2019s Ambassador to Malaysia\u00a0 Lourdes Puma Puma representing her country\u2019s Secretariat of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Noor Azlan said both countries will also exchange researchers and students on renewable energy with research done at UKM and a facility in Ecuador with scholarships provided to promising candidates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Present at the signing were Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and International Affairs) Prof Ir Dr Riza Atiq Abdullah OK Rahmat; Solar Energy Research Institute Director Prof Dato\u2019 Dr Kamaruzzaman Sopian; Director of the Centre of International Relations Prof Dr\u00a0Imran\u00a0Ho; Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology Prof Dr Sahrim Ahmad and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Prof Ir Dr Salina Abdul Samad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ambassadors and representatives of Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and Cuba were also present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Noor Azlan hopes the MoU is the beginning of scientific and innovative cooperation that will eventually lead to cross-discipline participation in economics and business management with Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lourdes said her country is very interested in Malaysia\u2019s research into harnessing solar and wind energy and offered facilities to carry out such research in Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ecuador had already offered UKM participation in a ground-breaking educational project at its new visionary city called Yachay following the visit by its Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility Minister, Ricardo Patinoon to UKM in 2013. Patinoon was impressed by UKM\u2019s achievements and had recommended his country\u2019s universities cooperate with UKM at Yachay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lourdes said Yachay is envisioned as South America\u2019s Silicon Valley and \u201cCity of Knowledge Research Centre\u201d which incorporates Education with Industry to foster innovation while providing comfortable homes to knowledge workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yachay is a Quechua or Inca word meaning \u201cThe utilization of knowledge with wisdom\u201d. \u00a0Ecuador\u2019s government led by President Rafael Correa wants Yachay to have the best universities in Latin America, which will develop new technologies in science, medicine, telecommunications, cybernetics, nano technology and botany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lourdes said both countries have similar geographic and climatic characteristics which made it suitable for joint cooperation in using sustainable energy that they have in abundance, such as solar and wind.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/Ecuador02.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/Ecuador03.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SATURDAY, 19 JULY 2014 07:22 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Ikhwan Hashim BANGI, 16 July 2014 \u2013 The National University<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/july-2014\/sustainable-energy-cooperation-between-ukm-and-ecuador\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3929,"parent":1132,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3925","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3925\/revisions\/3931"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}