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Dr. Fumiaki Suzuki, Executive Director for International Affairs and Public Relations, and 4 other delegates visit University of Calgary and University of Alberta in Canada

On March 20-22, 2017, Dr. Fumiaki Suzuki, Vice President and Executive Director for International Affairs and Public Relations visited the University of Calgary (U of C) and the University of Alberta (U of A) in Canada. Dr. Suzuki was accompanied by Dr. Mutsuhiro Shima, Professor and Head of Globalization Promotion Office (GPO) of the Faculty of Engineering (ENG), Dr. Kohei Nakamura, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences (ABS), Mr. Raymond Co, Associate Professor of Gifu University Head Office for Glocalization, and Ms. Emiko Kuze, administrative staff of GPO.

On March 20, Dr. Suzuki and his delegates attended English as a Second Language (ESL) class observations at the U of C prior to meeting with the English Language Program (ELS) staff including Mr. Yassin Boga, Associate Director of English Language Program and Ms. Ryoko Takada-Barrett, Program Manager. After the U of C's ELS programs were briefly introduced, various future opportunities for Gifu University (GU) students to study in the ESL programs at the U of C were discussed.

On March 21, both Dr. Suzuki and Dr. Steven Dew, Provost of the University of Alberta signed a Memorandum of Understanding between GU and the U of A for their university-level partnership. Subsequently the GU delegates attended a meeting with the ESL program staff members including Ms. Mimi Hui, Executive Director at the U of A's Faculty of Extension. After the ESL programs at the U of A were introduced, various possibilities for future partnerships including both student and faculty exchanges on the ESL programs were discussed. The first batch of 30 GU students is scheduled to attend the ESL programs at the U of A in Summer 2017.

On March 22, meetings with the Faculty of Science members were held at the U of A main campus. In the meeting with Dr. Renee Elio, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Science and Dr. Julie Naylor, Associate Dean of Programs & Operations, various opportunities for students and faculty exchanges particularly at the Graduate level were discussed. Then, the GU delegates met with Dr. Ratmir Derda, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and his Japanese graduate student who graduated from the Faculty of ABS at GU. Following that, the delegates met with Dr. Eric Rivard, Professor of Chemistry and were given a tour of his laboratory. Dr. Rivard will accept a GU's ENG student in his research group for one year starting from Fall 2017 under MEXT's "Tobitate! Japan Study-Abroad Program Scholarship. "
The university-level MoU is expected to further activate exchanges between the U of A and GU.

University of Calgary
Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta
MoU Signing Ceremony, University of Alberta
Meeting with Faculty of Science, University of Alberta

2017.04.18

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