University of Malaya

Interactive citizen-science for sustainability

Institution

University of Malaya

Region

Asia

COuntry

Malaysia

founding year

1962

student body

17192

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Institutional Approach

In addition to comprehensive circular campus and living lab initiatives, The University of Malaya, Malaysia, has experimented with an approach to cultivating a culture of sustainability amongst all university students and staff. The 'heartware' approach involves generating indicators and facilitators of internal and voluntary motivation of the campus community, with the aim of establishing long-term collaboration and collective efforts for sustainability. They have also applied this concept to community sustainability projects, such as local water management, leading to the development of an interactive citizen science tool for community-based water quality monitoring called the Eco-Heart Index.

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