Borders are hardening. Conflicts are escalating. Mobility is shrinking. Collaborative Online International Learning keeps students across the world in conversation when everything else pulls them apart. Can COIL survive, and grow, in this moment?
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Posts by Asian Mountain Academic Alliance
A poster promoting a launch of an Educator's Guide to Climate Science and Colonialism, with a photo of early teens young people of colors sitting on the ground, outdoor, in a warm tropical landscape, doing a group exercise.
๐ Educator? Scientist? Activist? A free new resource on Climate Science & Colonialism was made for YOU. Join us 27 Feb, 12:30 UTC to explore it together. Register zoom.us/meeting/regi...
๐ TWO INDIGENOUS SCHOLARS. ONE VISION.
๐ณ๐ฟ Maui Hudson (Whakatลhea) โ Mฤori scholar, Global Indigenous Data Alliance founder, bridging mฤtauranga Mฤori with science
๐ฎ๐ณ Sonajharia Minz (Oraon) โ Denied school at 5 for being Adivasi. Now UNESCO Co-Chair & AI professor
Transforming research governance.
A poster promiting field-based collaborative learning in Nepal, with photos of various landscapes of the mountains - lush green and dry land - and a circle of students learning outdoor.
๐๏ธ Two weeks. One transect. Infinite perspectives.
From Chitwan's forests to Muktinath's sacred heights at 3,710m, trace Nepal's climate stories with 20 fellow undergrads.
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14-29 May 2026
๐ Field costs covered for AMAA members (only 2 spots!)
๐ง Asia.CoordinationOffice@amaa.earth
โฐ Apply by 1 March
poster of a webinar on Many ways of knowing: transforming research governance for indigenous futures, featuring photo of two speakers, Maui Hudson and Sonajharia Minz, on a backdrop of Sohair indigenous art, in earth tone.
Join Prof. Maui Hudson and Prof Dr. Sonajharia Minz for a powerful dialogue on epistemic justice, data sovereignty, and decolonising research, from Aotearoa to the Himalayas.
Many ways of knowing. One movement for justice๐ฟ
๐ 22 Feb 2026
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Four AMAA members, all women, shared what it would take to keep science & education cooperation alive & thriving despite major setbacks in knowledge ecosystems across the globe. May 2026 bring peace, joys, & meanings to cooperation for a just & regenerative Asiaโs mountains & its communities.
Welcome to new institutional & invidual members, who are drawn to AMAA's collaborative vibrancy & member-led principle: every member's view is respected & contribution appreciated. Let us join hands to ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ for community wellbeing & resilient mountains of Asia!
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๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ Contest winners
๐ Bhawana Bista, LI-BIRD ๐ณ๐ต Nepal, "๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐ฅ."
๐Team Thyokyon, Nagaland, ๐ฎ๐ณ India, "๐ป๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ"
Mentionings
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Maliha Erfani, Kabul ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan, "๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐."
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Sunit Gotame, Butwal ๐ณ๐ต Nepal, "๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐."