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What really excites me about joining the Global Hubs Network at Cornell is engaging in global discourse and working on some of the most important issues facing humanity.

It creates opportunities for developing evidence-based research which can address the significant challenges of our time.

As we know International collaborations will help us scaling up actions for our global sustainable futures.

We feel that there'll be a lot of opportunities for our students and faculty especially for our early mid-career researchers and through the seed funding we'll be able to provide opportunities for our researchers to develop connections and to be able to engage in collaborative research projects.

We need to invest in young people. Our students, our future leaders, our good global citizens.

The main benefits to students will be multiplying their skills and their knowledge and a shared understanding and the passing of knowledge between their peers from a different country.

We also think that this network provides that opportunity for collaborative International online co-teaching with Cornell professors. Such academic mobility study abroad has enormous benefits for our students for their professional development. And to help them recognize the role and responsibility of a university and a university education.

We have the responsibility to prepare students not only to know or reflect about global challenges but also to become part of the solution of these global challenges.  

Universities are agents of change and so they're the best place to address some of these big global challenges. No single university can address these challenges and hence challenges are not solved by one discipline. They are are solved by different disciplines working together.

It's critical that we work with like-minded partners who can help us address the biggest challenges in the world.

Let's co-create, collaborate, and co-share our resources. So that it really will protect our future. (Vanita saying the same in Hindi)

Together we can go far. (Natcha says the same in Thai)

(Eric says "We must work together" in Asante Twi). We must work together.

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