Prof. Roberto Ranzi, Pro-Rector for Internationalization Policies, participated last Feb. 10-11, 2025, in Bali, Indonesia, in the National Coordinators' meeting of the ASEA-UNINET network (asea-uninet.org), of which he is President.
At the meeting, held at Universitas Udayana, in the presence of the Rector, Prof. Ketut Sudarsana, they worked on the preparation of the Plenary Meeting of the network to be held in Brescia, Italy, from September 8 to 12, 2025, which will have as its discussion topics
Digital Humanism and Arts in Academia
Quantum Physics
Renewable Energies
Global Health and Sustainable Food Production
Ecological Economics/Bioeconomy
Prof. Ranzi's mission continued to East Timor, a country that achieved independence in 1999, where, together with Prof. A Min Tjoa of Technische Universität Wien, he met with Rector Prof. João Soares Martins and a large academic delegation from Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa'e to invite this university to join the academic network as well.
The ASEA-UNINET network includes 90 universities from Europe, mainly from Austria (20) and Italy (6) and from ASEAN countries, mainly Thailand (19), Vietnam (11) and Indonesia(8).
The goal of the network is to promote quality research in the context of academic relations between Europe and the ASEAN countries, which are home to 8 percent of the world's population and produce 7.2 percent of the world's GDP.