• SDG 4: Quality Education
• SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals

The University of the Philippines Visayas represented by Chancellor Dr. Clement Camposano and the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences represented by Rector Prof. Dr. Csaba Gyuricza signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Academic Cooperation at the Department of Science and Technology, Taguig, Metro Manila on November 17, 2021.

• SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Happiness is relative; one’s happiness may be different from what makes other people happy. Tagged with everyone’s happiness is a goal to reach, and as happiness is relative, so is one’s goal. Achieving our goals take time, and we want to guarantee a financially stable future because we do not know what it holds for us. In a television commercial for a bank, Lea Salonga once stated, “Money isn’t everything, but it matters.”

In the 7th installment of the Visayas Universities Debating Championship – British Parliamentary 2021, the University of the Philippines Visayas Debate Society garnered several awards with a spot in the Open Grand Finals, 3 overall best speaker awards, 2 overall best adjudicator awards, 3 breaking teams and 3 breaking adjudicators, last November 6 – 7, 2021, which the University of San Carlos hosted. 

Leo Gali (b.1974), from Panitan town, recently turned over his painting titled “Feminine Colors” (2021, oil on canvas, 60.96 x 60.96 cm) to the Office of Initiatives in Culture and the Arts. 

The University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) and Commission on Higher Education (CHED) funded program “Tourism Studies on Island-Based Opportunities for Growth in Western Visayas - (TSIBOG)” commenced last July 2021 with seven research projects under its wing. One of these is the project “Bridging the Past, Sailing toward the Future: History to the (and by the People).”  The project partnered with the Local Government Unit of Ibajay, Aklan and the Department of Education - Division of Aklan to train elementary and secondary teachers, tourism and planning officers, and people’s organizations in doing historical research and promoting cultural heritage tourism in the Municipality of Ibajay.

Crispin “Ningnong” Acedera recently turned over his painting titled “Mga Pangalap sa Biernes Santo” (mixed media, 17.3 x 19.2 cm) to the Office of Initiatives in Culture and the Arts. The painting was included in an exhibition of abstract paintings, Abstracted Visions: The Contemporary Abstract Show, organized by art Show Philippines in July of this year. Prof Martin Genodepa, OICA Director, received the artwork on behalf of the university.

Mr. Reilly Bautista, an instructor at the Division of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences, was recognized as having the best poster presentation at the 23^rd National Physics Conference of Samahang Pisika ng Visayas at Mindanao (SPVM).  His work titled “First-principles calculation of carbon dioxide adsorption on nickel-decorated graphene” was created for the competition's Biophysics/Complex system/High Energy Physics/Computational Physics category. He is co-author of “Effect of Cu-doping at the Mo-site on electronic properties of monolayer MoS₂: A density functional theory study,” which is a paper that was presented orally for the same category. 

A total of 135 wifi routers were handed over to nine local government units (LGUs) in Western Visayas through the facilitation of the CAS COP-BIDANI. The routers, distributed from June to November 4 of this year, were donated by Ayala Foundation, Inc. as part of its WiFi2TEACH program that is committed to support public schools and communities in this age of remote learning. The LGU beneficiaries are Nueva Valencia in Guimaras; Carles, San Dionisio and Estancia in Iloilo; Barbaza in Antique; and, President Roxas, Cuartero, Maayon and Dumalag in Capiz. 

The University of the Philippines Visayas Project Development Assistant for Mass Media and Communication of the Office of the Chancellor, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Division of Humanities partner with Rappler and MovePH for the Media and Information Literacy (MIL) webinar series entitled “Digital Media, Technology, and Society.” This four-part webinar series aims to engage teachers, students, and leaders to be critical and discerning online and intends to engage audience so they can better navigate and deal with the disruptive impact of technological innovation in addressing urgent issues and crises in media and democracy.