On an official visit to the University of Rennes to sign a cooperation agreement, the delegation from the University of Chiba was represented by Mr Ozawa, Vice-President, Ms Motokawa, from the International Affairs Department, and Ms Tokisata, from the Student Mobility Office.
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eeting at the University of Rennes’ International Affairs and Relations Department, the partnership agreement was signed on Monday 19 June 2023, at a ceremony attended by our President, Mr David Alis, and Vice-Presidents Muriel Hissler and Sébastien Le Picard.
Chiba University, located in the prefecture of the same name near Tokyo, has grown to include 10 undergraduate schools and 17 graduate schools. Its fundamental mission is to “equip students with the ability to make mature and informed judgements while nurturing and guiding their creativity”.
The pursuit of these goals of excellence has enabled Chiba University to become one of Japan’s leading academic research centres. It is also one of the few universities in Japan to make it compulsory for students to study abroad (for a year, a semester or a short stay, for instance).
Discussions continued in the afternoon with the Chiba delegation at the Franco-Japanese Management Centre at IGR-IAE Rennes. The new mutual opportunities for incoming and outgoing exchanges were presented and discussed, in particular the short programmes available online.
Chiba University stands out from other Japanese universities for its innovations in teaching engineering, its strategy of promoting international mobility and its active participation in new national initiatives launched by the Japanese government.
For incoming exchange students, they offer programmes from 10 faculties and 13 colleges. They also offer a specific programme, the J-PAC (Japan Program at Chiba), a programme in the liberal arts which has been running for 23 years. This is particularly aimed at undergraduate students interested in Japanese culture and society.
Another initiative, the University of Chiba, is a driving force behind JVCampus or Japan Virtual Campus. This is a national e-learning platform with content provided by many of Japan’s leading higher education establishments.
Find out more here: https://www.jv-campus.org/en/user/
The day’s programme ended with a visit to the Parc du Thabor and a stroll around the historic city centre. Prof. Karine Picot-Coupey, Director of the CFJM, warmly thanked Mr. Ozawa and the entire delegation for their visit.
