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Through multiple meetings and discussions, the Director of Campus Services
showed his support for more bicycles to be brought into campus, although questioned
the feasibility and sustainability of it. The idea of bringing in e-bikes was toyed
around with but did not eventually become a reality. The emergence of oBike in
Malaysia provided just the solution, as the company had intended to have a presence
in university campuses. Bicycles provided by oBike were welcomed into UNMC and
saw many students pick up the habit of cycling to get from one end of campus to the
other. UNMC has also incorporated “Bicycles” as part of their Campus Sustainability
portfolio.
The UNMC Bicycle Project was purely a bottom up, grassroots movement, led
by the students themselves.
4.2 Kompos to Kelulut (K2K), Universiti Sains Malaysia
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) is located on an island state on the northwest coast
of Peninsular Malaysia, called Penang or Pulau Pinang. USM was founded in 1969,
and is one of the oldest institute of higher learning in Northern Malaysia. It had
around 24,375 students enrolled in 2016, making it one of the biggest universities in
Malaysia in terms of enrolment. It is also large in terms of space, taking up 416.6 ha
site (Universiti Sains Malaysia 2018).
USM is no stranger in the realm of sustainability in higher education. Besides
being one of the leading research universities in Malaysia, USM is committed to
focus on “transforming higher education for a sustainable tomorrow.” USM is well
recognised as a Regional Centre of Expertise (USM-RCE) for education for sustainable development membership, taking part in the Kampus Sejahtera (Campus
Well-Being) Programme, and most of all, gaining the Malaysia’s Accelerated Programme for Excellence (APEX) status.
The strength of USM’s ability to push forward the sustainability agenda lies in the
commitment of campus faculty to lead and be the agents of change. One of the successful examples in particular is the project under the School of Industrial Technology, Compost to Stingless Bees, better known as Kompos to Kelulut (K2K). The K2K
project started in 2014 through Knowledge Transfer Programme, a research grant
awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education for University engagement with Industry and Local Community. The Knowledge Transfer Programme awards researchers
from local Universities to share their knowledge from their research with the Industry
and local communities for 2 years. It is to train fresh graduate as Graduate Intern
other than empowering local community or the Industry on the technology from the
projects conducted.
The K2K project was led by Professor Dr. Mahamad Hakimi Bin Ibrahim from
Ecoprocess Research Technology Group (ECOPRO@USM), the School of Industrial
Technology. The project is a continuation of an existing research on Composting and
Vermicomposting which started in 2010. At the time, the purpose of the project was
only for research in which 8 Master students and 3 PhD students graduated from
J. I. J. Ilham et al.
Through multiple meetings and discussions, the Director of Campus Services
showed his support for more bicycles to be brought into campus, although questioned
the feasibility and sustainability of it. The idea of bringing in e-bikes was toyed
around with but did not eventually become a reality. The emergence of oBike in
Malaysia provided just the solution, as the company had intended to have a presence
in university campuses. Bicycles provided by oBike were welcomed into UNMC and
saw many students pick up the habit of cycling to get from one end of campus to the
other. UNMC has also incorporated “Bicycles” as part of their Campus Sustainability
portfolio.
The UNMC Bicycle Project was purely a bottom up, grassroots movement, led
by the students themselves.
4.2 Kompos to Kelulut (K2K), Universiti Sains Malaysia
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) is located on an island state on the northwest coast
of Peninsular Malaysia, called Penang or Pulau Pinang. USM was founded in 1969,
and is one of the oldest institute of higher learning in Northern Malaysia. It had
around 24,375 students enrolled in 2016, making it one of the biggest universities in
Malaysia in terms of enrolment. It is also large in terms of space, taking up 416.6 ha
site (Universiti Sains Malaysia 2018).
USM is no stranger in the realm of sustainability in higher education. Besides
being one of the leading research universities in Malaysia, USM is committed to
focus on “transforming higher education for a sustainable tomorrow.” USM is well
recognised as a Regional Centre of Expertise (USM-RCE) for education for sustainable development membership, taking part in the Kampus Sejahtera (Campus
Well-Being) Programme, and most of all, gaining the Malaysia’s Accelerated Programme for Excellence (APEX) status.
The strength of USM’s ability to push forward the sustainability agenda lies in the
commitment of campus faculty to lead and be the agents of change. One of the successful examples in particular is the project under the School of Industrial Technology, Compost to Stingless Bees, better known as Kompos to Kelulut (K2K). The K2K
project started in 2014 through Knowledge Transfer Programme, a research grant
awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education for University engagement with Industry and Local Community. The Knowledge Transfer Programme awards researchers
from local Universities to share their knowledge from their research with the Industry
and local communities for 2 years. It is to train fresh graduate as Graduate Intern
other than empowering local community or the Industry on the technology from the
projects conducted.
The K2K project was led by Professor Dr. Mahamad Hakimi Bin Ibrahim from
Ecoprocess Research Technology Group (ECOPRO@USM), the School of Industrial
Technology. The project is a continuation of an existing research on Composting and
Vermicomposting which started in 2010. At the time, the purpose of the project was
only for research in which 8 Master students and 3 PhD students graduated from