On April 24th-25th, Fabian J. Manoppo, the dean of the engineering department at Sam Ratulangi University in Indonesia, with whom our university has had an inter-university exchange agreement since 2002, visited our university as a representative of President Octovian B.A. Sompie, who graduated from our university and is now active at our university. Four former exchange students of our university who are active at our university paid a courtesy call to the president.

Amid the subsiding of the COVID-19 pandemic, our university has renewed its academic exchange agreement with Sam Ratulangi University, aiming to expand exchanges of students and researchers in the fields of science and engineering. Mr. Manoppo, a former exchange student of our university, visited as a representative of President to exchange opinions face-to-face with our university officials and to bring the renewed agreement.

President Kodama, Director and Vice President Yamashita in charge of education, Director and Vice President Teramoto in charge of international affairs, and Vice President Mishima (in charge of international affairs) warmly welcomed the former exchange students. President Kodama expressed his gratitude for the efforts of both universities in nurturing human resources and his welcome to the former exchange students who served as acting presidents. After that, an academic exchange agreement was exchanged, and President Kodama presented a commemorative plate of Arita-yaki pottery from Saga Prefecture as a gift, confirming the development of academic exchange between the two universities in the future.

After the courtesy call, the group familiarized themselves with our university through a campus tour conducted by Indonesian exchange students, who are now our juniors. On the following day, April 25th, Dean Toyoda of the Faculty of Engineering and Vice President Mishima, along with faculty members from the Faculty of Engineering, exchanged opinions on specific research and educational exchanges in the future.

With this visit, we expect to strengthen the personal network between our university and Sam Ratulangi University, an academic exchange agreement partner school in Indonesia where many former exchange students of our university are active, along with the expansion of exchanges between the two universities.

Acting President Fabian J. Manoppo (left) and President Kodama

Delegation from Sam Ratulangi University with President Kodama (from the right in the front row), Director Yamashita and Director Teramoto.

Exchange of opinions at the Faculty of Science and Engineering