Every Grain Matters — The Lost Food Project

Nicholas Ong Kuan Song

What some see as surplus, others see as a meal. 🌱

As part of Environmental Month 2026, APU students volunteered at The Lost Food Project, helping to sort and rescue edible fruits and vegetables for redistribution to families, orphanages, welfare homes, and elderly care centres. 💯

Beyond reducing food waste, the experience reminded students that every fruit saved, every vegetable sorted, and every helping hand offered can make a difference in someone’s life. 💚

Through compassion, teamwork, and community action, they learned that sustainability is not only about protecting resources. It is also about caring for people.

Turning surplus into support and food into hope. ✨

Read more:  https://www.apu.edu.my/news/every-grain-matters-lost-food-project

Exploring Malaysia’s Heritage and Tourism Landscape at MaTiC

Nicholas Ong Kuan Song

Our students from the School of Global Hospitality and Tourism (SoGHT) recently visited the Malaysia Tourism Centre (MaTiC) in Kuala Lumpur for an experiential learning trip. 🤩

Through cultural activities, heritage experiences, and visits to tourism attractions, students gained valuable insights into how Malaysia’s rich cultural heritage is preserved, promoted, and transformed into meaningful visitor experiences.

The trip provided a unique opportunity to connect classroom learning with real-world tourism practices, deepening students’ understanding of heritage management and sustainable tourism development. 🇲🇾💙

Read more:  https://www.apu.edu.my/news/exploring-malaysias-heritage-and-tourism-landscape-matic

APU Sustainability Hackathon 2026 Empowers Students to Innovate for a Greener Future

Nicholas Ong Kuan Song

Innovation meets sustainability at the APU Sustainability Hackathon 2026! 💚

Our students from across different disciplines came together to develop tech-driven solutions addressing real-world sustainability challenges aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

🏆 1st Place – Team Watt Wise (Smart Energy Tracking System)
🥈 2nd Place – The Juno Corp (River Pollution Detection & Remediation)
🥉 3rd Place – KitaKitar (AI-Powered Waste Management App)

Congratulations to all participants for showcasing creativity, teamwork, and a shared commitment to building a greener future through innovation!

Read more:  https://www.apu.edu.my/news/apu-sustainability-hackathon-2026-empowers-students-innovate-greener-future

Advancing Sustainable Agriculture through Innovation at the Third International Conference on Digital Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture

Nicholas Ong Kuan Song

Recently, APU successfully hosted the Third International Conference on Digital Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture, gathering academics, industry experts, and researchers to explore the future of sustainable agriculture. 🌱

Over two days, the conference featured keynote speeches, technical sessions, and exhibitions covering artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), robotics , and data analytics in modern agricultural systems. 🚜

Additionally, participants engaged in hands-on workshops, including drone technology and AI vision systems, alongside panel discussions on digital transformation in agriculture. 💡

Collectively, the insights shared throughout highlighted the growing role of digital technologies in shaping a more sustainable agricultural future. 🤝

Read more: https://www.apu.edu.my/news/advancing-sustainable-agriculture-through-innovation-third-international-conference-digital

Saying goodbye to the Webspace

Mohammad Reza Ganji

 

Timeline

Protecting your privacy and improving our integration with third-party apps!

Over the past 20 years, we’ve provided convenient access to announcements, information, services and applications through a number of portals and platforms, including the Intranet, Outspace, iWebSpace, WebSpace, and so forth.

Recent developments in web, cloud and security technologies have necessitated a review of the way in which end users access applications and services. In view of this, we were keen to move away from the WebSpace, which was developed on a legacy architecture, and move towards a more modern, user-friendly and secure platform that could be accessed anytime, anywhere and from any device. This project was launched in 2017, and was called Project Liberation, which had seen us move away from a monolithic, legacy web development framework to one that is more modern, user friendly and secure and that is accessible anytime, anywhere and from any device.

This resulted in the introduction of the APSpace – our unified multi-platform services portal for staff and students, which was launched in 2018.  Starting with only 3 services, the APSpace has been progressively expanded and enhanced based on end-users’ feedback, and today, it covers almost all digital services and applications under a single, unified access interface. It is available for download from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store, as well as the Web Version, which works best on Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari.

With this, it is with mixed feelings that we announce the official retirement of the WebSpace, which will no longer be available from 1st Jan 2021. The APSpace will then be the sole platform to access applications and services going forward. To commemorate this occasion, we have put together a short video to remind us fondly of how the WebSpace had evolved and served us so well for more than 20 years:

Watch the timeline:

Youtube Video

Thank you for your continued support throughout our digital transformation journey, and watch this space for more to come.

We value your feedback, so please do provide your views on how we could improve your digital companion – the APSpace – by using the feedback feature available within the App.

Download APSpace Now:

APSpace
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