Activity report
The 2nd Cross-disciplinary Exchange Café
Speeches by International Support Experts ----“What is interdiscipline that our society needs?
【Date and Time】14:50~16:20 Jan. 18 (Mon), 2016
【Venue】Lecture Room 2101, Center Zone 2
【GuestSpeakers】
Mr. Yoshinobu Fukazawa: Director of Fukuoka Office for Asia andthe Pacific, UN Habitat
Mr. Satoshi Yoshida: Director of the Secretariat of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, JICA
【Program】
1. Speeches by the guest speakers on international aid projects
2. Showing of contest-winnning short-movies created by students on their researches (3 students from ISGS)
3. Group discussions (Japanese ・English)
《Theme》
・In what way we each can contribute using our own expertise, to decrease what challenges the world is currently facing
・What sort of cooperation with experts in which other field we each will need to have, in order to achieve such contribution
The guest speakers showed their expertise on international aid activities and projects. We learned what challenges there are in developing countries and how they have been helping to solve those issues. It all made us realize how important professionals in various disciplines efficiently cooperate each other.
Contact
Kyushu University
Graduate School of
Integrated Sciences for Global Society
Global Project Office
744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka
819-0395