KMUTNB engages in collaborative efforts with local communities to maintain and restore shared land ecosystems. These partnerships focus on joint land-management activities, habitat restoration, sustainable land-use practices, and co-planning with community stakeholders to protect common green spaces, forests, and wild land areas. The faculty actively engages with the surrounding community to co-manage and restore shared terrestrial ecosystems, recognizing land systems as common assets that require local stewardship. Through coordinated outreach activities involving staff, students and neighbourhood stakeholders, Faculty of Industrial Technology and Management (FITM) works alongside local groups to identify priority land areas—such as community forests, degraded slopes and public green spaces—where collaborative conservation, rehabilitation and sustainable use measures are needed. These joint efforts include tree-planting campaigns, soil stabilization works, removal of invasive species, and participatory monitoring of ecosystem health. By pooling academic expertise, community knowledge and student volunteer service, FITM supports the development of resilient land ecosystems that benefit both the university and its neighbouring communities.

• KMUTNB’s Faculty of Technical Education hosted an event on 11 July 2024 in partnership with local community groups to promote sustainable land-use and ecosystem restoration. (Source: KMUTNB University News)

• KMUTNB’s Faculty of Information Technology and Multimedia ran a community outreach programme via its Facebook page inviting local residents to participate in joint tree-planting and land-restoration activities, supporting shared ecosystem stewardship. (KMUTNB Facebook post)