From Tuesday, June 23, Reiwa 8, to Thursday, June 25, Reiwa 8, a delegation from our partner institution, the Surabaya Institute of Technology in Indonesia, visited us. The delegation included President Bambang Pramujati,Sri Gunani Partiwi, Head of Quality Assurance and Director of the World-Class University Program; Arief Abdurrakhman, Director of Alumni Affairs;Hertiari Idajati, Director of the Career Services Center; and Raynaldi Putra Noer Santoso, a staff member of the Career Services Division, visited Matsuyama City. The delegation visited Ehime University on Tuesday, June 23, and Thursday, June 25.
On Tuesday, June 23, the delegation paid a courtesy call on President Hiroshige Nishina and held a meeting at the Administration Building. In addition to President Nishina, representatives from Ehime University included Kazuhiro Mitsunobu, Trustee and Vice President; Kenji Hato, Vice President; Osamu Kobayashi, Special Advisor to the President;Takuya Sugawara, Dean of the Joint Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences; Professor Muneko Shimakami of the Institute for International Relations; and Associate Professor MD Pervez Islam of the Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences. The meeting featured a lively exchange of views, deepening mutual understanding and strengthening ties between the two institutions.In addition, Surabaya Institute of Technology proposed the signing of a memorandum of understanding regarding a joint program*2 modeled after SUIJI (Six-University Initiative Japan Indonesia)*1, and it was agreed to continue discussions on this matter in the future.
Next, the delegation visited the Faculty of Agriculture and held a meeting with Shinsuke Chita, Dean of the Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, and others. Afterward, guided by Vice President Hato, Dean Sugawara, and Associate Professor Islam, they toured the laboratories and the Advanced Agricultural R&D Center.
On Thursday, June 25, we held a meeting with Professor Shimakami, Professor Katsugo Nakagawa of the Intellectual Property Division at the Organization for Research and Industry-Academia Collaboration, and Associate Professor Islam, who is the primary liaison for the exchange, to discuss future collaboration.During the meeting, we exchanged views on signing a memorandum of understanding regarding the joint program and confirmed our commitment to steadily developing our collaboration, using the exchange facilitated by the Sakura Science Program as a starting point.
It is hoped that this visit will lead to further progress in academic and student exchanges with the Surabaya Institute of Technology.
*1: This consortium, formed by six universities in Japan and Indonesia, offers multi-tiered joint educational programs ranging from undergraduate to graduate levels.
*2: This program allows students from both countries to enroll in joint educational programs held at host universities in the partner country, where they can take courses and receive research guidance from faculty members at both their home university and the host university.
