MINISTRY OF EDUCATION YOUTH AND SPORT

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF CAMBODIA

SKILLS FOR COMPLETITIVENESS PROJECT (S4C)

ADB LOAN NO.3791-CAM (COL) 

PUBLICATION OF CONTRACT AWARD

The Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) has posted the summary results of its contract awards, under the S4C project, from 30 June 2020 to 31December 2020 on the public notice board outside the project office and website: www.itc.edu.kh for the following packages:

1. For Works and Goods Contracts:

Package Number:

• ITC-E-01 (Goods)
• ITC-E-02 (Goods)
• ITC-W-1 (Works)

The information of publication including contract number, contract description, name of each bidder who submitted a bid, bid prices as read out at bid opening, name and evaluated prices of each bid that was evaluated, name of bidders whose bids were rejected, and the reasons for rejection, name of winning bidder and the final bid price.

2. For Individual Consultants Contracts:

Package Number:

• ITC-ICS-1
• ITC-ICS-2
• ITC-ICS-3

The information of publication including contract number, contract description, name of candidates who submitted an EOI, total score of expression of interest (EOI) evaluation and ranking, name of awarded candidate, and contract price. Anyone interested in viewing this information is welcome to do so during working hours between 8:00 am – 12:00 am and 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm from publication date till 11th February 2021 or can request at any time a copy of this information through the submission of a written request to the address below. The project public notice board can also be found at the following address: Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Building A, Ground Floor, Russian Federation Blvd, Sangkat Tuek Laak I, Khan Toul Kork, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tel: 077 523 228 or Fax (855) 23 888 369. E-mail: nguonkollika@gmail.com.

Complaints:

A complaint may be made by any party at any stage of the procurement process. No complaint will be responded to during the evaluation period. Complaints received during the evaluation period will be reviewed by the Employer and a response issued only after the evaluation is completed. Complaints shall be addressed to the Project Director, H.E.Dr. Om Romny, Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Building A, First Floor, Room A-216, Russian Federation Blvd, Khan Toul Kork, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Email: romny@itc.edu.kh. The Project Director will investigate the grounds for the complaint and, with the exception of those complaints received during the evaluation period as described above, respond to in writing within 14 calendar days of receiving the complaint. In the event that the response from the Project Director does not satisfy the unsuccessful bidder or there is no response the complaint received within 14 calendar days, the complaint should be referred to the (1) General Department of Public Procurement, Ministry of Economy and Finance, 92, Sangkat Wat Phnom, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia. In such case, a copy of the complaint should also be sent to (2) General Department of International Cooperation & Debt Management, Ministry of Economy and Finance, 2nd Floor (East Building), 92, Sangkat Wat Phnom, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tel/ Fax: 023 428 424, and to the representative of (3) Asian Development Bank, Ms. Yumiko Yamakawa, Education Specialist, Human and Social Development Division, Asian Development Bank, 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City 550 Metro Manila, Philippines, Tel: +632 863-1036, Email: yyamakawa@adb.org.

The General Department of Public Procurement shall respond to the complaint within 14 calendar days. This is without prejudice to any other recourse that a bidder may choose. Further information can be obtained from: The Institute of Technology of Cambodia, Building A, First Floor, Room A-205, Russian Federation Blvd, Sangkat Tuek Laak I, Khan Toul Kork, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tel: 077 523 228 or Fax (855) 23 888 369. E-mail: nguonkollika@gmail.com.

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April 25, 2016, a MoU between Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC ) and Dassault Systèmes was signed at ITC. Dassault Systèmes is a world leading company in 3D design, 3D digital mock-up, and product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions. The collaboration between ITC and Dassault Systèmes aims at building a Center of Excellence at ITC with a strong focus on Digital Design, Electrical Design, Construction industry and education practices. The objective is to enable human capital development and collaboration between education, research and firms in order to achieve world-class local expertise in latest industry practices and increase the value-added of young graduates.

The center will constitute ITC’s technology incubator in charge of facilitating adoption of competitive practices in engineering education and industry digital processes. It will be installed within ITC Campus with the support of one full-time teacher from IME, a Malaysian company and DS’ academic partner institution, and supported by experts from ITC educational infrastructure. It will give access to teachers, students and researchers to state of the art computing toolsand develop know-how and support the regional Industrial web.

The first stage of the collaboration will be to focused on the training on SOLIDWORKS – a software dedicated to the design of mechanical and electrical systems – concerning all engineering students within the ‘Industrial and Mechanical Engineering’ and ‘Electrical and Energy Engineering’ programs.

The Center will operate in an international network including equivalent centers such as PLMCC Hanoi (Product Lifecycle Management Competency Center) and industrial partners in the region.

ITC and Dassault Systèmes

April 20, 2016, at 9 am, a MoU was signed between the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC) and Moscow State University of Information Technologies, radiology, Radioengineering and Electronics (MIREA). The signing was conducted at the initiative of His Excellency HUN Many, Member of Parliament and President of the Union of Youth Federation of Cambodia

Present at the ceremony:

1. RUSSIAN SIDE

• Prof. Aleksandr Sigov, President of University MIREA
• Prof. Grigory Petushkov, Director of University IMPMO MIREA
• Prof. Alexey Spivakov, Secretary of the Presidium of the International Affairs of the Social Democratic Union of Youth “Just Power”
• Mr. Aleksandr Podzorov, First Secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee, Poltuburo, Member of the Communists of Russia
• Mrs. Sadykova Dilbar, Head of Youth Diplomacy Academy
• Mrs. Anastasia Makarenko, Deputy Chairman of the Economic Club of MGIMO

2. CAMBODIAN SIDE

• HE. HUN Many, Member of Parliament and President of the Union of Youth Federation of Cambodia
• HE. YUOK NGOY, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
• HE. MAK NGOY, Director General of Higher Education
• HE. Dr. OM Romny, Director General of ITC

The objectives of this meeting are:

• § Exchange of faculty and students between the two institutions
• § Cooperation in the field of research and scientific publication
• § Organization of seminars, scientific and industrial conferences
• § Development of dual diploma program

The ceremony ended well and there was an exchange of souvenir’s gifts and a visit of laboratories of the institute.

Phnom Penh, April 20, 2016

Direction Board of ITC

Co-funded by the Erasmus + CBHE (Capacity-Building projects in the field of Higher Education) program of the European Union, GREENCAP is a project that aims to enhance GREEN capacity to Higher Education Institutions through upgrading curricular and developing research based on GREEN Growth Perspectives to move forwards to foster sustainable development in Cambodia. This project involves three partners from European country such as the University of Nantes (France), the University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) and the University of Vigo (Spain), and four universities in Cambodia, Institute of Technology of Cambodia, National University of Management, Royal University of Law and Economy and University of Battambang. 

With the clear objectives to increase awareness of green business among students, and to improve student’s employability for existing and future green jobs, GreenCap has missions to take part in better establishment of strong connections between universities and private sectors to give practical insights on course curriculum and research; therefore, universities can produce more human resources as per demand of the private companies to adopt or create specific courses and diploma related to green growth as well as to promote innovative teaching on green development to increase attractiveness of courses.

In addition, GreenCap also helps to increase awareness for green higher education among universities and school students and to create a green platform to match students’ skills and stakeholders’ needs for green growth and green society.

To get more information and up coming events of GREENCAP, stay tuned with our website: https://greencap-cambodia.eu/and Facebook Page: Greencap Erasmus+ Project | Facebook

Through the project website, in order to raise awareness for green jobs, we provide opportunity for free and unlimited publication of job offer. Therefore, if you would like to share your green job/internship via our website, you are invited to fill the form:

EMPLOYERS: Post a Job or Internship opening

Our team will validate and publish your job/internship offer.

Live GREEN, Love GREEN, Think GREEN

February 24th, 2020 ITC organize one full-day training workshop on Active Learning (AL) and Problem-Based Learning (PBL). The training is organized under the framework of project Erasmus + KA2, Active Learning in Engineering Education (ALIEN), 2018 – 2020. 

There are 30 instructors from 5 different faculties joining the training. 

The training aims to improve the Teaching and Learning (T&L) approaches at ITC by encouraging instructors to apply AL and PBL in their classroom. Various tools and platforms have been introduced in the training to assist instructors in designing class activities and sharing knowledge among partners in the ALIEN project, such as: the AL and PBL platform of ALIEN (online platform for PBL), kahoot (a learning game which make learning fun), google classroom (virtual online class management). In addition, to demonstrate how PBL work, the participants of the training were invited to involve in problem solving on how to build a stronger bridge. The following pictures show the activities of problem solving. 

The training was completed successfully with the bridge that built by participants. 

Videos of the training: https://photos.app.goo.gl/H1CLCUuWoKN4m5pe6

Photos of the training: https://photos.app.goo.gl/hf9TyDsD3HVxrAvw6 

ALIEN AL and PBL platform: http://projectalien.eu/index.php/alien-pbl-platform/

For further information, please contact: 

Mr. LAY Heng,

Vice-Dean of Faculty of Electronic and Energy Engineering,

layeheng@itc.edu.kh

How did you get the idea of organizing such an event?

This event is part of the second phase of our collaboration with the GACC (Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves). During the first phase of it, we worked a lot on capacity building, internally but also with our regional partners. The GACC’s call for tender was oriented towards quality in the different RTKC (Regional Testing and Knowledge Center) laboratories. As we were working with our regional partners since the beginning, we wanted to bring them on board concerning quality issues. That is how the idea of such an event came to us and how it evolved. We thought that reuniting local actors who could testify, meet each other and share their experiences would be interesting. This event also allowed us to inform people on GERES’s activities.

What were your expectations?

We had four aspirations:

• The inauguration which allowed us to do an official handover, in due form, with the ribbon cutting, the signature of the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding), the visit with the officials and the handshake.
• Train our regional partners and the ITC’s teams, including the one who will take on the laboratory.
• Two educational and practical workshops. The first being a round table on quality; how to identify and take-up quality challenges in laboratories.
• The second, a discussion about standards. A government representative from the Institute of Standards of Cambodia (ISC) came and explained how to develop standards in Cambodia, how it is structured, what are the interests for the participants to have standards and who are the main identified stakeholders of the country in this sector.
• Connect people to reinforce networks and develop activities. All the participants are working on the same topics but they rarely get the chance to gather around lab quality issues, so we seized this opportunity.

Why did you choose this theme?

We chose to talk about quality because G-BEL has a high level of expertise on this. The quality management system we have is more advanced than what other labs in the region work with. The ITC wants to learn from our management system in order to manage its own laboratory and new research center. This is key to ensuring that when you get results, they are right! This is the main reason for focusing on quality, meaning that the results published by a lab are certifying products, which allow other stakeholders to take decisions depending on your results. Quality is an important issue because if there are some errors and the results are not reliable, it can be misleading and detrimental. It is a challenge today to develop such processes in Cambodia.

A change is taking place right now for G-BEL, what is it? What does it imply?

G-BEL is changing hands! We have transferred it to the ITC, including all our equipment and skills, knowledge, procedures, documentation and data. ITC will be able to manage G-BEL in an independent and autonomous way once the transfer is complete. The MoU that was signed specifies the co-management of the lab for one year. During this year, G-BEL stays under GERES but on ITC’s premises. If we have tests to do we can still have access to the lab and the same goes for University staff who can access it freely.

Who’s on the new team?

The new team is mainly composed of my counterpart, the new laboratory manager Dr. Or Chanmoly and his superior who is the ITC’s research director, Dr. Hul Seingheng, who will mostly work on fundraising, partnerships and finding ways to integrate the lab in University programs.

Actually, I have to train Dr. Chanmoly on lab operation processes, tasks preparation, data management, and fuel and biomass technology testing. I also have to put him in touch with all the providers, the GACC staff, etc. This way he will be able to transfer his knowledge and train his students.

Moving forward, Dr. Chanmoly will be in charge of the operational part and will run the lab’s day-to-day activities, eventually with students in some cases. Very soon a laboratory assistant will join the lab to help in the daily routine.

What has been set up for it to be completely independent?

We are currently operating an important transfer on all our quality management system. We are transmitting them our reports, procedures, checklists, templates, documentation and spreadsheets.

I will also be training them on the technical handling. The next step consists of explaining to them how our information system is structured, in order to be able to find every document and procedure they need to successfully operate the quality management system.

So what is the lab going to do now?

So far, the transfer has been done on all our protocols which include how to conduct biomass, improved cookstove and emissions tests. We can use other procedures to test the heat capacity of fuels other than biomass and the University is very interested in this. For example, Dr. Chanmoly also works on fossil fuel energy, like petroleum and coal mining. So, the utilization of the equipment will be widened.

Today, what are you satisfied with in the lab?

I am satisfied that the transfer has been made and that people technically qualified are going to continue this important work. I am pleased that G-BEL’s organization is flexible enough and well documented for other people to use it and take ownership of it. ITC seems sold on this idea. For example, the deputy director was the only one supposed to sign the MoU but the director general came as well. It shows that they value this new lab. What also came out from the discussions I have had is that they want to integrate the lab into their new study programs, so it is really good news!

It would be interesting to see how the lab evolves in the future. I will be very curious to see what the lab will be in the next two to three years because here in Cambodia the environment moves very quickly. Stay tuned!