News（NEWS）
TAOYAKA Program held Opening Ceremony
The opening ceremony 2015 for the Taoyaka Program for creating a flexible, enduring, and peaceful society was held on Friday, April 3rd, , and was performed in English. The number of students who were accepted to the Taoyaka program in this year was eight with different educational, professional and cultural backgrounds. The country of origin and the number of the students are as follows: Japan (2), Bangladesh (1), Nepal (1), India (1), Vietnam (1), China (1), and Costa Rica (1). This program has established at Hiroshima University in 2014 and entered its second year.
The vice president of Hiroshima University, Dr. Masaki Sakakoshi, gave the opening address to congratulate and encourage the newly-enrolled students: “Students who accepted and began this program today have distinguished educational and career backgrounds in various fields. I am expecting all of you to work hard in order to become an exceptional global leader and work internationally after the completion of the five-year program. We want you to be successful. We are happily to provide you with full support in both academically and financially. We believe that our support will help you to manage your daily life better in order to devote yourself to your studies and research.”
The purpose of the Taoyaka Program is to cultivate students in becoming global leaders who can contribute to global communities, including Japan, facing different types of issues and problems. Within the five years of doctoral program, students have an opportunity to visit and work closely with people in the region where they choose and research in order to understand deeply their current situations and needs of these regional societies and cultures. The students in the program are expected to develop technological, social, and cultural projects that will help resolve and support these concerns in these communities.
The 28th Taoyaka Program seminar was held
Title : Regional Social Capital in Rural Regions – Some Cases in Depopulated Areas in Japan and the Other Countries –
Date : 12:50pm-14:20pm,Wed. December 17th,2014
Venue : B204, Graduate School of Letters, Hiroshima University
Lecturer : Prof. TSUTSUMI Kenji /Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University
Object Persons : Students, Teachers and Public
The 29th Taoyaka Program Seminar was held
Title : India-Japan Relations in the 21st Centry
Date : 15:00pm-16:30pm,Thursday. January 8th, 2015
Venue : Library Hall, Central Library, Hiroshima University
Lecturer: Mr. Aseem R. Mahajan (Counsul General of India, Osaka-Kobe)
Jointly hosted by the Center for Contemporary India Studies at Hiroshima University (HINDAS)
Simultaneous interpretation provided (English/ Japanese)
TAOYAKA Program Newsletter “Flexibility, Endurability, and Peace” has been published.
The 26th and 27th Taoyaka Program Seminar were held
【The 26 th Taoyaka Program Seminar】
Time and Date: 10:00～11:30, November 13, 2014
Title: Management of Technologyin Indonesia
Lecturer: Dradjad Irianto,Professor of Bandung Institute ofTechnology
Venue: Middle Meeting Room(A1-141), Graduate School of Engineering
Language: English
【The 27 th Taoyaka Program Seminar】
Time and Date: 13:00～14:30, November 12, 2014
Venue: Middle Meeting Room(A1-141), Graduate School of Engineering
Lecturer: S. Paul Sumitro （President of SMARTSENSYS)
Title: From Engineer to Entrepreneur
Language: English
Object Persons: Teachers and Students
The 25th Taoyaka Program Seminar was held
Time＆Date: Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 13:00-14:30
Title: Some Industrial Aspects of Systems Engineering
Lecturer: Albert B.Gilg Prof.Dr.Dr-Ing.h.c Siemens AG & TUM,Munich/Germany
Venue: Graduate School of Engineering, Middle Conference Room A1-141, Hiroshima University
TAOYAKA Program held the 1st International Symposium “Toward a Multicultural-Coexistence Society” on November 2nd, 2014.
At the symposium, Program Director Masaki Sakakoshi gave an opening address, and MEXT Higher Education Bureau University Promotion Division Chief Tomoka Satomi delivered a guest speech. Hidenori Okahashi Program Coordinator explained the outline of TAOYAKA Program. Two keynote lecturers were present at the symposium. Mr. Shinya Ominami (Director, NPO Green Valley Inc.) gave a lecture titled “Kamiyama Project – for establishing a high-quality and creative place,” and introduced the NPO’s activities to revitalize Kamiyama, a town in Tokushima Prefecture where depopulation is progressing, with cases of young people moving to Kamiyama and an enterprise opening a branch office in Kamiyama. Ms. Hiromi Tengeji (Representative, Kopernik Japan) gave a lecture titled “How to distribute technologies to last mile communities in developing countries” and introduced projects run by the organization to distribute low-cost technologies having appropriate qualities to recipients in less-developed countries facing various issues.
An active discussion was led among the two lecturers and TAOYAKA students.
Prof. Funck Caroline will appear on “Umitoikiru (Living with the sea)” on Friday, November 14th.
(This program will be in Japanese)
[Air Date&Time] Friday, November 14th 2014 7:30PM-8:43PM
[Station] NHK Hiroshima
[Program] “Umitoikiru (Living with the sea)”
the program’s website (Japanese Only)
Prof. Kazuo TOMOZAWA will appear on NHK Kyoiku “Koko-koza (Highschool Lectures)” on Friday, December 12th.
(This program will be in Japanese)
[Air Date&Time] Friday, December 12th 2014 2:40PM-3:00PM
[Station] NHK Kyoiku
[Program] “Koko-koza (Highschool Lectures): Focus on India”
the program’s website (Japanese Only)