To celebrate its 105th anniversary, Chula President announces the success of the “Speedboat Strategy” in managing the university in a volatile situation to drive social innovations, focusing on being a research university that teaches, revising its curriculum, and building graduates’ competencies in line with the world of the future.
During the past few and rather difficult years most of us have faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, Chulalongkorn University has launched several innovations and studies to serve the society, such as CU-RoboCovid – a medical support robot, the COVID-19 screening kit “COVID-19 scan”, COVID-19 sniffing dogs and devices, nasal spray, automated vaccine filling machine, survival kits, the “ChulaCov19” mRNA COVID-19 vaccine and “Chula-Baiya” Protein Subunit Vaccine from tobacco leaves, etc.
These innovations are the result of the “Speedboat Strategy” and Chula’s vision for the future under the leadership of Professor Dr. Bundhit Eua-arporn, President of Chula.
university in thailand “I have set the vision of Innovations for Society as the core of university management to harness knowledge and wisdom to make society a better one and to move towards being a research university that teaches. Chula graduates must be equipped with the skills of the 21st century, and possess the quality of global citizens while excelling academically so that they are well recognized by employers around the world. More importantly, university administration must be involved in managing national and global public issues to build a better future society.”
This is the direction in which Prof. Dr. Bundhit has been steering Chula toward for the past six years. Not only has Chula ranked No. 1 in Thailand for the 3rd consecutive year and top 16 in the world in THE Impact Rankings 2022, but most importantly, Chula has been maintaining its role as the university that serves and brings continuous change to society in line with the motto “when society is troubled, Chula has the solutions”.
On the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the founding of Chulalongkorn University, Prof. Dr. Bundhit discusses the concepts behind the “Speedboat” strategy, the direction and approach of university management, and the university vision aimed to be realized in the future.
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