On January 28, an international symposium on “Security and Safety in the Global Food Chain” was held in a face-to-face format for the three courses of the Faculty of Agriculture as part of the U.S.-Kagoshima-Asia Triad Program in a Multi-Polar World Inter-University Exchange Project. The symposium was attended by 53 participants from Japan and abroad, including faculty members in charge of the three courses and their students who participated in the course’s overseas training as well as the faculty and students from their respective overseas partner universities.
Kagoshima University’s Global Center has been promoting the U.S.-Kagoshima-Asia Triad Program in a Multi-Polar World Inter-University Exchange Project” sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). The program is a trilateral cooperation program for educational and student exchange among 9 U.S. universities and 9 Asian universities. This year is the final year of the program. The symposium was held as the closing international symposium for the three courses of the Faculty of Agriculture: “Food Production,” “Food Safety,” and “Food and Health.
The symposium featured lectures by faculty members from partner institutions in the U.S. and Asia, reports on training by students who participated in this year’s training, and past activity reports by faculty members, making for a productive symposium that summarized the five-year activities of each course.
Although there was a time when it was difficult to dispatch and accept students overseas due to the Corona disaster, there were lively discussions on how online exchanges were promoted instead of actual travel, and what is in store for the future globalization of our university.
