On March 17, 2017, the United Graduate School of Agricultural Science (UGSAS) held a Sandwich Program Reporting Session and a Completion Ceremony with 17 people in attendance.
The Sandwich Program is designed to accelerate cooperation in the fields of education and research between Gifu University graduate schools and the member universities of IC-GU 12^*. Under the program, Gifu University accepts students studying at a doctoral course of the 15 member universities, as special research students, and supervises them for six months.

In the reporting session, after a speech by Professor Kohei Nakano in charge of the program, two students from Assam University and two from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG) made presentations about their research work and life in Japan. Later, they actively engaged in discussions with Japanese students. In the Completion Ceremony, Professor Masanori Senge, Dean of UGSAS handed a sandwich program completion certificate and an enrollment certificate to each student.

This sandwich program offered a great opportunity for the participating students to learn how to write research dissertations. For Japanese students, they were also given a rare chance to have deeper understanding about different cultures through sharing some time with the research students. It is expected that the program will help Gifu University further expand international exchanges in the years to come.

In implementing the Sandwich Program, Gifu University was assisted by AY 2016 Study Abroad Support Program of Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) in its instructions for special research students.

Sandwich Program Detail
1. Research instructions by professors in specialized fields are offered
2. Students can attend lectures at graduate schools of Gifu University
　　(No recognition of credits, but enrollment certificates are issued)
3. Students can make research presentations at reporting sessions
4. Program completion certificates are issued
5. In case publishing the dissertations drawn up during their enrollment in Gifu University, the dissertations are considered to be co-authored by the student and his / her supervisor

^*IC-GU 12: International Consortium of Universities in South and Southeast Asia for the Doctoral Education in Agricultural Science and Biotechnology