 |
| ||||||
|
| ||||||
|
On 6 August, the Indian JSPS Alumni Association (IJAA) held its third annual conference at the Radisson Blu Hotel Nagpur in Maharashtra. Convened to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and India, the symposium featured plenary lectures and invited talks by four Japanese and six Indian researchers on the theme "New Age Science and Technology for Sustainable Development." In the opening ceremony, Dr. S. R. Wate, director, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Dr. D. Sakthi Kumar, chair, IJAA, and Mr. Shinichi Higuchi, first secretary, Embassy of Japan in India, offered welcoming and opening remarks.  Booths were set up to display materials on the Japanese universities that have hosted Indian alumni, offering the symposium attendees information on 12 Japanese universities. Presentations were also delivered by representatives of the University of Tokyo and Ritsumeikan University, which have programs funded under the Project for Establishing University Network for Internationalization, and by Toyo University, which is scheduled to open an office in India. The symposium included a poster session by students and researchers, who initiated a new feature of giving flash presentations. In the closing ceremony, two students and two researchers were awarded plaques for having the best poster displays. The attending students and young researchers could be seen in various settings interacting energetically with the alumni and other researchers from India and Japan, foretelling the next wave of Indian participants in JSPS programs. The symposium concluded with a message from the symposium organizer Dr. Rajesh B. Biniwale, general secretary of IJAA's West Chapter—one that evoked a strong sense that Indo-Japanese collaboration will continue to grow and thrive. - Overseas Fellowship Division  |
