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The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) consists of Cambodia, China (Yunnan & Guangxi Provinces), Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
The Greater Mekong Subregion Academic and Research Network (GMSARN) was founded followed an agreement among the founding GMS country institutions signed on 26 January 2001, based on resolutions reached at the Greater Mekong Subregional Development Workshop held in Bangkok, Thailand, on 10 – 11 November 1999. GMSARN is composed of eleven of the region's top-ranking academic and research institutions.
GMSARN carries out activities in the following areas: human resources development, joint research, and dissemination of information and intellectual assets generated in the GMS. GMSARN seeks to ensure that the holistic intellectual knowledge and assets generated, developed and maintained are shared by organizations within the region. Primary emphasis is placed on complementary linkages between technological and socioeconomic development issues. Currently, GMSARN is sponsored by Royal Thai Government.
The GMSARN member institutions are the Asian Institute of Technology; the Institute of Technology of Cambodia; Kunming University of Science and Technology, Yunnan Province, China; National University of Laos; Yangon Technological University, Myanmar; Khon Kaen University, Thailand; Thammasat University, Thailand; Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam; Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam; the Royal University of Phnom Penh in Cambodia; Yunnan University in Yunnan Province and Guangxi University in Guangxi Province, China. |
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