{"id":30958,"date":"2025-01-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/?p=30958"},"modified":"2025-01-30T15:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T08:33:21","slug":"mhesi-nxpo-and-adb-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/en\/30958\/","title":{"rendered":"MHESI-NXPO and ADB plan to collaborate on highly skilled workforce development in semiconductor and advanced electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 23 January 2025, executives from NXPO and the Program Management Unit for Human Resources &amp; Institutional Development, Research, and Innovation (PMU-B) met with representatives from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to explore collaboration opportunities in highly skilled workforce development in response to global trends. The discussion was led by Dr. Surachai Sathitkunarat, President of NXPO and Acting Director of PMU-B, alongside NXPO Vice President Prof. Dr. Surin Khomfoi and PMU-B Deputy Director Dr. Pavadee Aungkavattana. The ADB delegation included Mr. Fook Yen Chong, Senior Specialist, as well as ADB consultants Assist. Prof. Dr. Suvaluk Asavasanti and Ms. Anittha Jutarosaga.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_01.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_01-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, Mr. Fook Yen Chong outlined ADB\u2019s mission, emphasizing its role in providing loans and financial support for development initiatives. He highlighted key areas of focus, including overcoming the middle-income trap (MIT), addressing challenges posed by aging societies, and navigating transformative technologies such as electric vehicles, digital transformation, and semiconductors. While its previous projects in ASEAN included countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia, ADB is interested in launching initiatives in Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"446\" data-id=\"30962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_02.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_02-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"447\" data-id=\"30961\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_03.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_03-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Surachai underscored NXPO\u2019s role in policy research and strategic development under MHESI. He emphasized the importance of the semiconductor and advanced electronics industries as critical sectors for Thailand\u2019s future and identified highly skilled workforce development in these fields as a promising area for collaboration with ADB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"445\" data-id=\"30963\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_04.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_04-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"447\" data-id=\"30964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_05.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_05.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics_05-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Dr. Surin discussed ADB\u2019s broader role beyond Asia, exploring potential opportunities for joint projects. Dr. Pawadee highlighted PMU-B\u2019s strategic focus on funding initiatives for highly skilled workforce development, particularly in the semiconductor and advanced electronics industries, aligning with the shared priorities of NXPO and ADB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussions concluded with a mutual agreement to jointly develop initiatives aimed at fostering a highly skilled workforce in these critical industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 23 January 2025, executives from NXPO and the Progra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/author\/adminsti\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/MHESI-NXPO-and-ADB-plan-to-collaborate-on-highly-skilled-workforce-development-in-semiconductor-and-advanced-electronics.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30965,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30958\/revisions\/30965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nxpo.or.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}