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Two Senior Lecturers from the National University of Timor-Leste Make a Courtesy Call on President

Senior Lecturer, Dr. Cancio Monteiro and Director and Senior Lecturer, Mr. Joao Cabral of the National University of Timor-Leste made a courtesy call on President Hisataka Moriwaki on July 22, 2015. Their meeting with the President was joined by Dr. Shuichi Nonomura, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Dr. Hiroki Yoshida, Associate Professor and Dr. Yasuhiro Takahashi, also Associate Professor of the Faculty of Engineering. Dr. Fumiaki Suzuki, Executive Director for International Affairs and Public Relations, and Ms. Junko Sugaya, Director of the International Planning Division were in attendance at the meeting. Dr. Cancio and Mr. Joao are currently receiving training at Gifu University as participants of the 'Capacity Development of the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Technology, the National University of Timor-Leste' offered by JICA from July 7, 2015 under the instructions of Dr. Yoshida and Dr. Takahashi.

In the meeting with the President, Dr. Yoshida who has long been engaged in JICA projects and is serving as a chief project supervisor this time, presented a brief outline of JICA project including its future schedule, and talked about a possible signing of the faculty-level agreement between the faculties of engineering of National University Timor-Leste and Gifu University. Later, Dr. Cancio spoke about the necessity of increasing project support staff of Gifu University, and expansion of research fields of cooperation in view of future JICA projects. They actively exchanged opinions about further collaboration between the two universities.

At the end of the meeting, they reaffirmed the importance of discussions about Gifu University's cooperation with JICA projects and concrete measures for the development of the Faculty of Engineering, National University of Timor-Leste in the future.

Meeting with the President
President Moriwaki accepts gifts from Dr. Cancio
(from left) Dr. Suzuki, President Moriwaki, Mr. Cancio, Mr. Joao,
Dr. Nonomura, Dr. Yoshida, Dr. Takahashi

2015.08.19

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