• SDG 4: Quality Education

The outcome of nurturing research culture through partnership and collaboration will affect the future of producing knowledge in the basic education sector in the country, UP Visayas Chancellor Clement Camposano emphasized during the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) and partner Department of Education – Schools Division of Iloilo City (DepEd SDO-Iloilo City).

• SDG 14: Life Below Water

March 21, 2022, marked a momentous event when UP Visayas and Rare Philippines, Inc. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to cooperate and collaborate in exploring ways to conceptualize, co-design, initiate, deliver, and pilot-test services, projects, programs, campaigns, studies, researches, proposals, and policy initiatives toward building resilient and sustainable coastal communities and coastal ecosystems, using resources in their respective organizations. Both Rare Philippines, Inc. and UP Visayas will endeavor to achieve the objectives and deliverables within a period of up to 3 years. 

Another retired faculty member of the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, UP Visayas (UPV-CFOS), was appointed member of the Professional Regulatory Board (PRB) of Fisheries.

• SDG 4: Quality Education

“The offering of the PhD in Education is a very significant development for UP Visayas. As you know, Western Visayas is an educational center,” said UPV Chancellor Clement Camposano during his opening remarks at the launch of the PhD in Education program on March 29, 2022, via Zoom. 

A Bacolodnon blogger, an Ilonggo journalist, and Radyo Pilipinas Iloilo (RP1) headline the awardees of the first ever BANTALA UPV Media Excellence Awards of the University of the Philippines Visayas last March 23, 2022. 

University of the Philippines President Danilo L. Concepcion capped off his three-day visit to UP Visayas with a trip to Guimaras island on March 18, 2022. 

Grand Gascon, a 4th-year Chemical Engineering student from the School of Technology, University of the Philippines Visayas, was the only Filipino selected to be one of the top 10 and 2 wildcard finalists of the Bayer’s Youth Agriculture Summit. The event started six months ago and concluded on March 24, 2022. 

• SDG 14: Life Below Water

UPV and Rare, Inc. (Phils) formally entered into a contract to build resilient and sustainable coastal communities and coastal ecosystems for the fisheries sector. 

On day two of his visit to Iloilo, UP President Danilo Concepcion was at the UP Visayas Miagao campus on March 17, 2022, for a site visit of UPV’s ongoing and newly completed infrastructure projects in UPV Miagao Campus that were constructed during his term.