The Re-Inventing Japan Project supports international educational initiatives that send Japanese students abroad and welcomes overseas students to Japan whilst guaranteeing the quality of the higher education offered. The aim of the project is to train internationally-minded human resources capable of playing an active role in the global arena, to boost the global expansion of university education, and to strengthen networks with overseas connections. Programs with Russian and Indian universities are eligible for support from FY 2014 to FY 2018 (October 2014- March 2019).

In our program, Hokkaido University collaborates with five key universities in the Russian Far East (Far Eastern Federal University, North-Eastern Federal University, Irkutsk State University, Sakhalin State University and Pacific National University) as well as with local governments and industries. The objective is to train human resources who will spearhead sustainable development in the Far East and the Arctic Circle—regions with a plethora of global issues—and also to establish educational exchange programs with quality assurance that have credit transfer between Japanese and Russian universities.

Click the link below (in Japanese) for details about the projects selected for the FY2014 Re-Inventing Japan Project: Support for the Formation of Collaborative Programs with Russian and Indian Universities. (MEXT website)

http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/houdou/26/10/1352324.htm 

Office of International Affairs, Hokkaido University

E-mail: RJE-3@oia.hokudai.ac.jp