2022.09.26

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Executive Director Ishii and Chuo faculty members Visit Foreign Trade University and Thuy Loi University in Vietnam (September 5, 2022)

Group photo at Foreign Trade University

On September 5, 2022, Executive Director Ishii and Chuo faculty members visited Foreign Trade University and Thuy Loi University in Hanoi, Vietnam. At Foreign Trade University, they met with the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Le Thi Thu Thuy, and at Thuy Loi University they met President Trinh Minh Thu.

Chuo and Foreign Trade University entered into a cooperation agreement in 2010. This visit, the delegation from Chuo included Executive Director Yasushi Ishii, Vice President and Director of the International Center, Hiroshi Shirai, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Kazunori Umeda, and Dean of the Faculty of Global Management, Shunitsu Nakasako. Other Chuo visitors were Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of Science Engineering, Tadashi Yamada, Professor of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Taichi Tebakari, and Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Naoki Koyama. The Chuo delegation exchanged views with the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Le Thi Thu Thuy, the Vice President, and other professors.

Foreign Trade University (FTU) is a social sciences university with seventy percent female students. It was noted that Professor Emeritus Yoshiaki Takahashi of the Faculty of Commerce previously conducted lectures in the Japanese language department. Chair Thuy pointed out that courses related to AI and data science at Chuo would help the curriculum of FTU’s newly created department. In addition, the Director of the FTU International Center, Cao Dinh Kien, said that he would like to develop not only student exchange, but also faculty exchange in the future. In response, Vice President and Director of the Chuo International Center, Professor Shirai, said that he would like to consider the possibilities of student exchanges other than semester-based, such as short-term study programs. Following these remarks there was an active exchange of views from both universities and participants confirmed the possibilities of further strengthening mutual cooperation.

Group photo at Thuy Loi University

The Chuo group then visited Thuy Loi University, a partner of Chuo’s Faculty of Science and Engineering since 2012, and met with President Thu, the University Vice President, and six other professors of Thuy Loi University. President Thu welcomed the Chuo delegation, noting the valuable outcomes of joint water-environment research with Chuo, and expectations for further positive outcomes from future joint research. In response, Executive Director Ishii added that the cooperation on water-resource research between the two universities would support development in Vietnam and Japan, and Asia.

Professor Emeritus Yamada of the Chuo Faculty of Science Engineering and Professor Tebakari of the Faculty of Science and Engineering then introduced the joint symposium on water environment to be held the next day with Thuy Loi University and Chuo University, confirming the potential for further strengthening of the cooperation between the two universities.