BATAC CITY-- Four reputable universities in Japan have agreed to support the modernization of renewable energy facilities of the state-run Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) in this city.
Officials of the Ashikaga Institute of Technology (AIT), Gifu University (GU), Shizouka University (SU), and Kyoto University (KU) also committed to provide trainings to students and faculty members in the engineering and nursing programs in a bid to enhance the university’s research and academic initiatives.
Their support was stated in the agreement signed between MMSU President Dr. Shirley Agrupis and Dr. Izumi Ushiyama of AIT in a working visit to Japan of university officials last March 6 to 11.
The GU also committed to provide scholarships and trainings to MMSU qualified faculty members, and allow them to use its laboratory facilities for research purposes.
The SU, meanwhile, promised to send its professors to MMSU to conduct lectures and train its faculty and students through fellowship grants.
For his part, Prof. Shiro Saka of the Laboratory of Energy Ecosystems in KU also agreed to train the university faculty and students in the fields of bio-energy.
Dr. Carlos Pascual, chief for the university’s International Program, said these development partnerships between MMSU and four Japan universities “will surely enhance both MMSU’s research and academic initiatives to produce highly competitive graduates of these two courses in the near future.”
Pascual said the working visit was one of the initiatives of the present MMSU leadership to level up the university’s institutional status, expand its external partnerships and linkages, and improve its resource generation. (PNA)
