Dr. Peerapol Chatchawal, Director of the Office of Arts and Culture, participated in the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on promoting, preserving, and disseminating religion, arts, culture, traditions, and local wisdom between the Department of Cultural Promotion and the Offices, Institutes, Centers, and Working Groups in Arts and Culture of 38 Rajabhat Universities. Associate Professor Dr. Duangporn Phuphaka, President of Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University, presided over the opening ceremony of the project to develop a collaborative network for promoting, preserving, and disseminating religion, arts, culture, traditions, and local wisdom among Rajabhat Universities in Thailand on August 7, 2026.

The objectives of this collaboration are to coordinate arts and culture cooperation with partner networks; to develop and promote Thai values; to uphold the institutions of nation, religion, and monarchy; and to apply the philosophy of sufficiency economy to develop organizations from the community to the international level. This includes exchanging knowledge, integrating cultural disciplines into research and creative work with networks, and promoting personnel, researchers, local scholars, and cultural networks to create innovations from artistic wisdom. The aim is to develop cultural knowledge for academic services, create added value, and further develop local wisdom. To promote and support platforms for showcasing works and products derived from local wisdom to the creative economy, and to organize arts and cultural activities in collaboration with partner networks to build a strong foundation in arts and culture. This involves leveraging diversity to present culture through soft power, and jointly developing a data system and database to promote arts and cultural activities that are recognized at national and international levels. (Location: Ratchanakarin Room, 5th Floor, Ratchanakarin Building, Ratchanakarin Rajabhat University)