The Yunus Center at AIT provides an independent and open platform for addressing development challenges in Asia. It provides a forum for discussion between people from the public, private, academic and grass roots sectors to exchange ideas on poverty alleviation and social business.The Center aims to contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable development by promoting, developing and implementing social business ideas and projects.

Located inside a higher education institution the Center hopes to encourage the transformation of education institutions into dynamic promoters of change for poverty reduction. The Center applies interdisciplinary approaches in its operations and supports multi-stakeholder partnerships. It promotes the development and dissemination of innovative models for poverty reduction under three main focus areas: education for social business, action research and knowledge dissemination.