The Fellowship for Building Leadership in Atmospheric Environment and Air Quality Management in East Asia is a program organized by the Network Center for the EANET, hosted by the Asia Center for Air Pollution Research (ACAP), in collaboration with Fudan University (FDU), Shanghai, China, and Clean Air Asia (CAA). It aims to strengthen the research capacity of young government officers and researchers in the Participating Countries, particularly in developing countries.
Open to participants from the 13 EANET Participating Countries, the program was held for six months in 2024. Participants engaged in monthly online meetings and intensive on-site training with progress reporting and discussions with designated supervisors in both China and Japan to implement their research activities. The on-site session started in Japan from July 15 to July 27, 2024, followed by China from July 28 to August 10, 2024.
This year, five government officials/researchers from Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Russia participated in the program. Supervisors from the Network Center for the EANET (NC) and research fellows discussed their research studies intensively at the NC for 2 weeks. During the program in Japan, Dr. Hajime Akimoto, Emeritus Research Fellow of the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and Science Advisor of ACAP, delivered a lecture titled “Past and Present Challenges to Atmospheric Environmental Chemistry,” sharing scientific insights related to the expansion of EANET’s scope. Additionally, discussions were held with supervisors and researchers from ACAP about EANET’s future development & fellows’ contributions.
In China, the on-site session was organized by the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) International Center of Excellence (ICoE) under Fudan University on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Weather/Climate Extremes Impact and Public Health (ICoE-RIG-WECEIPHE) and Monitoring, Analysis, and Prediction of Air Quality (MAP-AQ) Aisan Office Shanghai, Fudan University. The fellows participated in the International Summer School Program on Climate Change and Related Risks held at Fudan University’s Jiangwan campus and joined discussions, under the supervision of FDU.
More details on the EANET website:
https://www.eanet.asia/shaping-future-leaders-the-fellowship-for-building-leadership-in-atmospheric-environment-and-air-quality-management-in-east-asia/