Evaluation Report of PIURN Network 09/01/2017 Pacific Islands University Research Network Marine Pirodeau Acknowledgement This report could not have happened without the willingness and commitment of both University of South Pacific (USP) and University of New-Caledonia (UNC) and especially UNC Chancellor Mr Lagadec and Mr. Armstrong Deputy Vice-Chancellor of USP. We are also sincerely grateful to Mr Vanualailai and Mrs Renaud for their support and involvement in PIURN network. We would like to thank as well the research administrative staff of all PIURN members for their collaboration. Their support and help to gather the necessary information was very helpful for the report writing. Administrative support of both UNC and USP has been a real strength for this report. It is also important to thank all PIURN members thus PIURN nominee for their involvement and reactivity in the development of the network. Indeed, meeting and interviews were useful to enhance cooperation between members. Finally, this report could not have happened without the researchers who agreed to answer interview. Their Lightning and observations have been a real source of thinking for the writing of this report and we are, again, very grateful. 1 Table of Content Acknowledgement ................................................................................................................................... 1 Abbreviation ............................................................................................................................................ 4 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 5 I) Presentation of the network ........................................................................................................... 6 a) History of the network ................................................................................................................ 6 b) List of the founding documents of the network ......................................................................... 6 c) Vision, missions et objectives ...................................................................................................... 8 d) List of member universities of PIURN network (at September, 1st 2017) ................................... 8 e) Administrative support of the network ....................................................................................... 9 a) Internal diagnosis ...................................................................................................................... 11 1) Human resources................................................................................................................... 12 2) Intangible resources .............................................................................................................. 12 3) Teaching and Students .......................................................................................................... 14 4) Scientific research ................................................................................................................. 17 5) Financial resources ................................................................................................................ 25 6) PIURN structure ..................................................................................................................... 26 7) PIURN themes........................................................................................................................ 32 8) Communication ..................................................................................................................... 32 10) Relationships with partners................................................................................................... 33 11) Collaboration potential among PIURN network .................................................................... 34 c) External diagnosis and impacts on PIURN network .................................................................. 34 1) Fiji Islands .............................................................................................................................. 35 2) Solomon Islands ..................................................................................................................... 36 3) New-Caledonia ...................................................................................................................... 37 4) Papua New Guinea ................................................................................................................ 38 5) French Polynesia .................................................................................................................... 40 6) Samoa .................................................................................................................................... 42 7) Relationships with external partners .................................................................................... 43 III) Summary of diagnosis ...................................................................................................................... 44 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................. 44 Appendix ................................................................................................................................................ 45 Country Description........................................................................................................................... 45 Fiji Islands ...................................................................................................................................... 45 2 Fiji Islands ...................................................................................................................................... 45 French Polynesia ............................................................................................................................ 49 French Polynesia ........................................................................................................................... 49 New-Caledonia .............................................................................................................................. 53 New-Caledonia .............................................................................................................................. 53 Papua New Guinea ........................................................................................................................ 56 Papua New Guinea ........................................................................................................................ 56 Samoa ............................................................................................................................................ 60 Solomon Islands ............................................................................................................................. 63 University description ....................................................................................................................... 65 Divine Word University (PNG) ....................................................................................................... 65 Fiji National University (FNU) ........................................................................................................ 69 National University of Samoa (NUS) .............................................................................................. 78 Pacific Adventist University (PAU) ................................................................................................. 84 PNG University of Natural Resources and Environment (UNRE) .................................................. 87 PNG University of Technology (UNITECH) ..................................................................................... 88 Solomon Islands National University (SINU) ................................................................................. 92 The University of Fiji (UNIFIJI) ....................................................................................................... 95 Université de Polynésie-Française (UPF) ..................................................................................... 100 Université de Nouvelle-Calédonie (UNC) .................................................................................... 105 University of Goroka (UOG) ......................................................................................................... 111 University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) .................................................................................... 112 University of South Pacific (USP) ................................................................................................. 122 Référence ............................................................................................................................................ 130 3 Abbreviation DWU: Divine Word University FNU: Fiji National University MoC : Memorandum de Cooperation NUS: National University of Samoa PAU: Pacific Adventist University PESTEL analysis: Politic, Economy, Socio-cultural, Technology, Ecology and Legal PIURN: Pacific Islands University Research Network PNG : Papua New Guinea PNG UNRE: Papua New Guinea University of National Resources and Environement SINU: Solomon