International Symposium
Exploring the Frontiers of Academic Collaboration between the United Arab Emirates and Japan: Petroleum and Energy-Related Technologies
On Monday, December 5, an international symposium entitled “Bridging Academic Exchange between the United Arab Emirates and Japan in the Field of Energy,” organized by Abu Dhabi University of Petroleum, the Center for Energy and Resources Frontier, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and others, and co-sponsored by the Center (UTCMES), was held at Takeda Hall, Hongo Campus, the University of Tokyo. The symposium aimed to discover and share the expected effects of academic and international collaboration between Japan and the UAE, and discussed the expected effects from the perspective of future energy policy, academic research development, and higher education in Japan, as well as from the perspective of human resource development and globalization of the project.
In the morning session of the symposium, Dr. Mariko Mori, Vice President of the Faculty of Engineering, Abu Dhabi University of Petroleum, gave an overview of the university, its student life, current academic exchange with other universities, and future prospects for the university. Then, Dr. Mariko Mori, Specially Appointed Associate Professor at UTCMES, gave a presentation entitled “The Gulf and Japan: The Significance of Academic Exchange,” in which she gave an overview of the Center, reported on the status of universities around the world with endowed chairs in the Sultanate of Oman, and presented activities of UTCMES to date. She also reported on the center’s future plans for academic exchange with Middle Eastern countries. In addition, the current status of cooperation between Japan and the UAE in the energy field was also reported.
During the Q&A session and lunch that followed, there was a wide-ranging and lively exchange of views on higher education, including what measures universities should take to address the trend among developed countries of young people away from the engineering (science) fields. In regard to Associate Professor Mori’s report, Abu Dhabi University officials and Japanese business people asked questions about the situation in the Middle East, including the Gulf region, as well as about academic research and exchange beyond the framework of arts and sciences, and the status of acceptance of foreign students from the Middle East region. The participants also asked questions and expressed their opinions on the state of acceptance of foreign students from the Middle East region.
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