Report

The 5th FOLENS international symposium
Education Program for Field
-Oriented Leaders in Environmental Sectors in Asia and Africa -The Outcome and Future Prospects of FOLENS Program-
   
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The 5th International Symposium of Education Program for Field-Oriented Leaders in Environmental Sectors in Asia and Africa was held on Saturday November 16th, 2013 at Fuchu Campus. The objective was reflecting 5 years until now to discuss what kind of the outcome we could get and how we could take root on TUAT the outcome of FOLENS Program for field oriented mind and skill sets required for global environmental human resources. For the first part director of FOLENS Program reported the outcome of FOLENS Program and the future prospects then FOLENS graduate students and TUAT faculties reported the outcome of FOLENS Program. For the second part faculties of the University of Tokyo and Yokohama National University, they have performed International Environment Leaders Training Program, introduced their approach and outcome. Then in the panel discussion faculties of TUAT, Education & Research Bases and above 2 universities discussed the future prospects and facilitator emphasized the importance of link. In the closing remarks the faculty of TUAT asked to support FOLENS Program continuously for the future, while 41 FOLENS students, field oriented leaders, already graduated and faculties of TUAT are developing join research with E & R Base faculties and will start international cooperation activities. Through this symposium we recognized these are very important to enforce the network between faculties of TUAT & E & R Bases and FOLENS graduated students with the mind of “Link will not die” and continue the FOLENS lectures, field practices (internship), post- field reporting seminar and agriculture and engineering assimilated seminar. (KY)

Date: November 16, 2013
Time: 13:30-17:40
Venue: Room 25 Lecture Hall 1 for Faculty of Agriculture, Fuchu Campus,
Languages: English and Japanese simultaneous interpretation
The number of Participants: 68 people

Program 

MC Sachi Ninomiya-Lim (Chief Coordinator, FOLENS, TUAT)

Opening Remarks / Introduction (13:30-14:10)

13:30 Opening Remarks: Yasuhisa Kunimi (Vice President for Education, TUAT)
13:40

Yoshiaki Kinoshita (Director for Environmental Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan)

13:50

Progress of FOLENS Program: Hideshige Takada (Director, FOLENS, TUAT)

Part1: Voice of FOLENS Students, Graduates, and TUAT Faculty (14:10-15:10)

14:10-14:55 Voice of FOLENS Students & Graduates Harakhun Tanatavikorn(Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Applied Chemistry, TUAT)
Tomoko Makita (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries staff, Japan/alumni of TUAT)
Video Message from Roeurn Siranet(Kagawa Univ., Doctoral Course Student), Pheng Sokline (Lecturer, Royal University of Phnom Penh)
Na-Ngern Prathomrak (Tanavasri Fern's Biological and Ecological Learning Center)

Sachi Ninomiya-Lim (Chief Coordinator, FOLENS,TUAT)
14:55-15:10 Voice of Faculty: Hirokazu Ozaki (Laboratory Coordinator, FOLENS, TUAT)
15:10-15:30   Coffee Break

Part2: Discussion for the Future (15:30-17:30)

MC Takashi Gomi (Deputy Director, FOLENS, TUAT)

15:30-15:50 Masanori Kobayashi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University)
15:50-16:10 Hiroyuki Katayama (Associate Professor, Dept. of Urban Engineering, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo)
16:10-17:30

Panel Discussion(16:10-17:30)
Facilitator: Takashi Gomi Panelists:
Dr. Hiroyuki Katayama Masanori Kobayashi
Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria (Professor, University Putra, Malaysia)
Mitsunori Tarao(Associate Professor, TUAT)

Floor:
John Ofosu-Anim (Associate Professor, University of Ghana, Ghana)
Le Viet Dung (Associate Professor, Can Tho University, Vietnam)
Tiwa Pakoktom (Assistant Professor, Kasetsart University, Thailand)

Closing Remark

17:30-17:40 Akihiko Terada (Acting Vice Director of FOLENS, TUAT)

Guests from oversea

Dr. John Ofosu-Anim  Associate Professor, Dean of School of Agriculture, Department of Crop Science, University of Ghana

Dr.Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria  Professor, Deputy Dean (Graduate, Research and Development), Faculty of Environmental Studies,University Putra Malaysia

Dr.Tiwa Pakoktom  Lecturer, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Kasetsart University, Thailand

Dr. Le Viet Dung  Associate Professor, Vice Rector for International Relations & Scientific Affair,Faculty of Agriculture and Applied Biology, Can Tho University, Vietnam

Guests from domestic fields

Masanori Kobayashi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University)
Hiroyuki Katayama (Associate Professor, Dept. of Urban Engineering, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo)
Tomoko Makita (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries staff, Japan/alumni of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology ) Mr. Kenichi Bamba  Representative, Bridge for Fukushima / Consultant for developing countries
Ms. Rumi Sato  Executive Director, NPO Birth (alumni of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)

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