From July 28 through August 11, the Graduate School of Agriculture (GSA) hosted a 15-day summer school for 10 students from Zhejiang University, China. The program was entitled "International Exchange with Chinese Top-Class Students Aiming for Research Competency Enhancement", and organized under a Wild & Wise Collaborative Learning Program with support from Kyoto University.
Enrolled in the Faculty of Agriculture as short-term international students, the participants attended lectures by GSA researchers -- Professors Ryutaro Tao and Naoshi Kondo, Associate Professor Jinhu Shen, Dr Keiichiro Shiraga, a JSPS post-doctoral fellow, and Mr Yoshito Saito, a master's student -- as well as by Professor Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Graduate School of Science, Professor Junko Kawai and Associate Professor Shikiko Yukawa, Education Center for Japanese Language and Culture, Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences (ILAS), and Associate Professor Liyou Han, ILAS.
In addition, the Zhejiang students experienced Japan's traditional culture and advanced technology by making tofu, attending a tea ceremony, and visiting a weighing machine manufacturer.
Throughout their stay in Kyoto, the participants constantly interacted with faculty and fellow students at their host laboratories, discussing their research interests and other topics, and, just before leaving for China, delivered presentations on what they had learned at GSA.
Special lecture at GSA
At Omi Weighing Machine Inc
Learning to make tofu
Tea ceremony
Final presentations
With laboratory faculty and fellow students
