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Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech) concluded an international academic exchange agreement with Bohol Island State University (the Philippines)

Publishing : October 27, 2016


From October 13 (Thu.) to 16 (Sun.), the following members of NITech visited Manila and the Province of Bohol in the Philippines: President Hiroyuki Ukai, professors at the Advanced Disaster Prevention Engineering Center (Professor Hideki Idota [Director], Professor Cho Ho, Professor Eizo Hideshima, Associate Professor Keisuke Kitagawa, and Associate Professor Toshikazu Kitano), and two students from Professor Keisuke Kitagawa's laboratory (Mr. Daishi Sakaguchi on the Doctoral Course, and Ms. Marina Shimizu on the Master Course).

On October 13 (Thu.), the members of NITech paid a courtesy call on Mr. Susumu Ito, Chief Representative of the JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Philippines Office to discuss collaborative projects with NITech in the future with regard to the Bohorizon Project, a project adopted as JICA's grassroots technical cooperation scheme to enhance the capacity of participatory disaster management in prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery in the Province of Bohol (December 2014 to December 2018 / Project manager: Associate Professor Keisuke Kitagawa).
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Mr. Susumu Ito, Chief Representative of the JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Philippines Office: the fourth person from the right in the back row
President Hiroyuki Ukai: the third person from the left in the back row
Associate Professor Keisuke Kitagawa, Project manager: the second person from the right in the front row

On October 14 (Fri.), NITech concluded an international academic exchange agreement with Bohol Island State University to exchange researchers and students, as well as to implement joint research. What triggered the conclusion of this international exchange agreement was the 2013 Bohol earthquake. As a result of considering what NITech could do for the Philippines, our university has been continuously implementing the Bohorizon Project since December 2014. As the first activity of the project, in collaboration with administrators and citizens of Tubigon City as well as professors and students of Bohol Island State University, NITech held lectures and workshops in Tubigon approximately 10 times over these two years to enhance the capacity of participatory disaster management in the Province of Bohol. At night on October 14, the members of NITech participated in a meeting and a social gathering with the following members: Edgardo M. Chatto, Governor of the Province of Bohol; administrators of the Province of Bohol; William Jaoy, Mayor of Tubigon; municipal administrators of cities in the Province of Bohol; members of Bohol Island State University; and members of the JICA Philippines Office.
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The NITech members were welcomed at Tagbilaran Airport with music performed by the Bohol Island State University orchestra.
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NITech concluded an international exchange agreement with Bohol Island State University.
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President Ukai and Professor Idota, Director of the Advanced Disaster Prevention Engineering Center, having a pleasant chat with the Governor of the Province of Bohol
The person at right in the photo is Mr. Takahiro Morita, Senior Representative of the JICA Philippines Office.

On October 15 (Sat.), President Hiroyuki Ukai, Professor Idota, Director of the Advanced Disaster Prevention Engineering Center, and Associate Professor Keisuke Kitagawa attended a ceremony to commemorate the third anniversary of the 2013 Bohol earthquake. They shared condolences and promised, as representatives of NITech, to make further efforts to enhance Bohol's capacity of participatory disaster management.
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Attended a ceremony held at St. Joseph the Worker Cathedral to commemorate the third anniversary of the 2013 Bohol earthquake

As for Professor Cho Ho, Professor Eizo Hideshima, Associate Professor Toshikazu Kitano, and students from Professor Keisuke Kitagawa's laboratory (Mr. Daishi Sakaguchi on the Doctoral Course, and Ms. Marina Shimizu on the Master Course), on October 14 (Fri.) and 15 (Sat.), they held a lecture and a workshop in Tubigon City to create, together with administrators and citizens of the city, two types of manuals on disaster risk reduction: one is related to the ground, covering earthquakes and landslides; and the other is related to hydrology, covering typhoons, floods and high tides. The attendance was approximately 100 people. At the end of the event, President Hiroyuki Ukai rushed to the venue, and the President and Mr. Takahiro Morita, Senior Representative of the JICA Philippines Office, extended their greetings to close the event in the hope that this type of movement to enhance the capacity of participatory disaster management will spread all over the Philippines.

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At the workshop

In collaboration with the Philippine Government and the Provincial Government of Bohol, NITech will continuously encourage the administration and citizens of the Philippines, a country prone to natural disasters just as is the case with Japan, to enhance disaster management in prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery by themselves as soon as possible.












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