◆We have signed an academic exchange agreement with the Vietnam National University, Hanoi’s Japan-Vietnam University
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On Friday, May 10, 2024, Motofu Furuta, President of the Japan-Vietnam University at Vietnam National University, Hanoi; Yasunaga, an advisory committee member for the Faculty’s Smart Agriculture and Sustainability Program (ESAS) (Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology);Dang Minh Hieu, Director of the Food Technology and Health (FTH) Program; Ta Kim Nhung, ESAS Lecturer; and Inomata, a JICA expert (Program Coordinator), visited our university to hold a signing ceremony for an inter-university academic exchange agreement.
Representatives from our university included President Hiroyuki Utsuda and Executive Director Takatoshi Endo.
Japan-Vietnam University is a comprehensive university established in 2014 as a symbol of friendship between the Japanese and Vietnamese governments. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) provided support for organizational development and other aspects during the establishment of Japan-Vietnam University, and our university has been conducting international training programs in collaboration with JICA for many years.Discussions regarding this academic exchange began as a result of the active collaboration between both universities and JICA, and led to the signing of this agreement with a focus on cooperation in two recently established faculty programs: Smart Agriculture and Sustainability, and Food Engineering and Health.
On the day of the event, President Uchida expressed his expectation that the signing of this agreement would lead to further development of the university’s cutting-edge initiatives—such as the Internet of Plants (IoP) and the Tosa Food Business Creator (Tosa FBC)—as the university strives to become a “Super Regional University (SRU).”
Next, President Furuta of Nihon-Vietnam University expressed his hope that the signing of the agreement would lead to active exchanges aimed at achieving the university’s goals of fostering highly skilled professionals, including the implementation of internships at our university for Nihon-Vietnam University students.
Following the signing of the inter-university academic exchange agreement and the memorandum of understanding on student exchange by the two university presidents, a discussion was held regarding future exchanges. In the afternoon of the same day, a meeting was held with Kochi Prefecture, which is promoting the IoP project in collaboration with our university, and a tour of the IoP model house located on the Kochi University campus took place.
With the signing of this agreement, further promotion of exchanges between the two universities is anticipated.
