On November 10, 2023, HASHIMOTO Shuji, First Vice President of Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (hereinafter referred to as E-JUST) in New Borg El-Arab City, Alexandria, Egypt, SASAKI Chikako, a JICA expert on the E-JUST Project (deputy general affairs officer), and MOCHIZUKI Hiroshi, a planning staff member of Technical and Higher Education Team, Higher Education and Social Security Group, Human Development Department, JICA, visited Meiji University to conclude a cooperation agreement between the two universities. The university was joined by President DAIROKUNO Kosaku, Headquarters of International Collaboration Susanne SCHERMANN (professor in the School of Law), and Associate Professor of the School of Global Japanese Studies KISHI Makiko .
President DAIROKUNO expressed his gratitude for the visit and expressed his desire for the university’s first international exchange with an Egyptian university, saying that in terms of international and cross-cultural exchange, he has once again realized how precious it is to actually touch and experience different cultures and that he would definitely like to go to Egypt, which he has not visited yet. After that, President DAIROKUNO signed the agreement signed by the president of E-JUST, which was brought by First Vice President HASHIMOTO, completing the process of the agreement conclusion.
In August 2023, Associate Professor KISHI and five seminar students visited E-JUST and conducted workshops and fieldwork with 10 E-JUST students on the Art and Design Program for five days. The professor handed photo books of the session made by the students to E-JUST officials.
In the future, Meiji University will promote with E-JUST two-way student exchange (long-term and short-term) and research exchange (international joint research, joint research guidance for graduate students, short-term research stay programs for post-doctoral students, etc.) between the two universities.
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Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST)
A national university established in 2010 with the support of the Technical Cooperation Project by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). About 2,500 students are enrolled in the Graduate School of Electronics, Communications and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and the Graduate School of International Business and Humanities in the Faculty of International Business and Humanities. Japanese university consortia have sent teachers to conduct local education and research, and Japanese-style laboratory and seminar education, research guidance of graduate students by Japanese teachers, and international joint research between Japanese researchers and local researchers have been actively conducted.
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