CALL FOR AFRICAN STUDENTS TO STUDY IN JAPAN: Application Guidelines for AY2024 IAfP Short-Term Exchange Program – Kyoto University – In 2020, Kyoto University (KU) started the Innovative Africa Program (IAfP) together with Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). By exchanging students with their partner universities in Africa, the program aims to foster human resources who engage in technological and social innovations to facilitate the realization of sustainable development goals....
CALL FOR AFRICAN STUDENTS TO VISIT JAPAN: Application Guidelines for IAfP Sakura Invitation Program – Kyoto University – In 2020, Kyoto University (KU) started the Innovative Africa Program (IAfP) together with Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). By exchanging students with their partner universities in Africa, the program aims to foster human resources who engage in technological and social innovations to facilitate the realization of sustainable development goals....
CALL FOR AFRICAN STUDENTS TO STUDY IN JAPAN: Application Guidelines for AY2023 IAfP Short-Term Exchange Program – Kyoto University – In 2020, Kyoto University (KU) started the Innovative Africa Program (IAfP) together with Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). By exchanging students with their partner universities in Africa, the program aims to foster human resources who engage in technological and social innovations to facilitate the realization of sustainable development goals....
Excursions for students in short-term study abroad programs (November 18th, 2022, December 13th, 2022, December 15th, 2022) The IAfP program organized excursions as part of the “AY2022 IAfP Short-Term Exchange Program at Kyoto University” for a total of 13 invited students from Uganda, Ethiopia, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, and Madagascar. On November 18th, 2022, they visited the Kyoto City Zoo, the Lake...
Short-term exchange students arriving from Africa [October 3 – October 20, 2022]. Thirteen African exchange students arrived at Narita International Airport and Kansai International. Although the COVID-19 pandemic had made it difficult for the students to come to Japan from Africa, fortunately, all of them managed to arrive safely at Kyoto University. The 13 short-term exchange students were invited to Kyoto University...
The 3rd International Joint Conference was held. On December 19th, 2022, a 3rd international conference was held as part of the “Innovative Africa: Educational Networking Programs for Human Resource Development in Africa’s SDGs (IAfP: Innovative Africa Program),” which Kyoto University and the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies have jointly hosted since 2020. The conference consisted of an...
12th IAfP Research Seminar/The 4th Lifelong Sciences Research Seminar “Living and Learning in Kyoto（Japan）: A modest reflection on my experience（and conversation with young students from Africa）” Living and Learning in Kyoto（Japan）: A modest reflection on my experience（and conversation with young students from Africa）
“JAPAN AFRICA University Student Exchange Portal Site” is launched “JAPAN AFRICA University Student Exchange Portal Site” is launched. The site contains a database of universities accepting Japanese students in Africa and universities accepting African students in Japan. In the future, the news on study abroad programs and other information will be distributed. ⇒ “JAPAN AFRICA University Student Exchange Portal Site”...
“AY2021 IAfP Short-term online exchange programs – Addis Ababa University – / AY2021 Online lecture series on lifelong sciences” was held From 1 February to 12 March 2022, the “AY2021 IAfP Short-term online exchange programs – Addis Ababa University – / AY2021 Online lecture series on lifelong sciences” took place as part of the “Innovative Africa: Educational Networking Programs for Human Resource Development in Africa’s SDGs”1, or IAfP, conducted by Addis...
Round Table Talk “Field Work in Ethiopia” On March 12, 2022, the “Roundtable Talk – ‘Field Work in Ethiopia’” was streamed live on YouTube as the final event of the “AY2021 IAfP Short-term online exchange programs – Addis Ababa University/AY2021 Online lecture series on lifelong sciences.” This talk was also held as a start-up event for the...
ROUND-TABLE TALK on Field Work in Ethiopia 17:00-18:00, Sat. 12th March, 2022Start-up event of Innovative Africa Channel, Kyoto:(ONLLINE)“ROUND-TABLE TALK on Field Work in Ethiopia”（Related event of “AY2021 IAfP Short-term online exchange programs – Addis Ababa University – / AY2021 Online lecture series on lifelong sciences”） Guest Speaker: Jan Abbink (Leiden University) Participants: Masayoshi Shigeta (Kyoto University), Shunsuke...
Public Lecture for Social Implementation 16:00-18:00, Wed. 2nd March, 2022Lecture series on Lifelong Sciences: Lifelong Sciences & fieldwork IV(ONLLINE)“MNGD Public Lecture for Social Implementation”(Related event of “AY2021 IAfP Short-term online exchange programs – Addis Ababa University – / AY2021 Online lecture series on lifelong sciences”) “Higher Education and Outreach Activities in Ethiopia” by Gebre Yntiso...
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