2016 DRC summer program held for students from Thailand, Taiwan, Japan (31 July-10 August 2016）

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2016/09/09

From 31 July through 10 August, two departments of the Graduate School of Engineering -- the Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering and the Department of Urban Management -- jointly hosted a summer program, "International Human Resource Development for Construction of Disaster-Resilient Countries (DRC)", for 34 students from six institutions. The program was focused on "Disaster and Health Risk Management for Liveable Cities", and was organized under the Wild & Wise Collaborative Learning Program with support from Kyoto University.

Four overseas institutions -- the Asian Institute of Technology, Chulalongkorn University, and Kasetsart University in Thailand, and the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan -- were represented by 17 participants, who were joined by 14 students from Kyoto University and three auditing from Kansai University.

Day one consisted of an orientation, a lecture on Japanese culture featuring an English rakugo performance, and a welcome party. From 1 through 8 August, lectures were delivered by faculty from the KU Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate School of Medicine as well as from other institutions. The 4th and 5th were devoted to field trips, with visits to the Hanshin Expressway Earthquake Museum and the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution in Kobe, and Kiyomizu Temple and the Yasaka area in Kyoto, where participants learned about local firefighting through observation and hands-on experiences, including discharging water from a fire hydrant.

The students also took part in group work, discussing and presenting on what they had learned through the DRC program.

The 11-day program concluded with a final examination for all participants.