OceaniaWorldMinister Haitze Siemers and Professor Yoshii Masahiko.16Visit from the EU Delegation to JapanOn November 11, Mr. Haitze Siemers (Minister, Deputy Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Japan) visited Kobe University and met with Professor YOSHII Masahiko (the then Executive Vice President in Charge of Human Resources, International Exchange and Evaluation). Professor Yoshii began the meeting with an explanation of Kobe University’s activities in Europe. This included aspects of Kobe University’s history, the establishment of overseas oces in Europe and their respective activities, academic cooperation agreements with European institutions, and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, which is an EU-focused educational and research center.Minister Siemers expressed his views on the great importance of furthering scientic and technological progress in order to build a better society for future generations and exchanged opinions on how Kobe University can increase its active participation in the European research-funding scheme Horizon Europe. The discussion covered a wide range of topics, including Kobe University’s EU-related education, the Japan-EU Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA), the Japan-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and SDGs.Kobe University will continue to strengthen its connections with the Delegation of the European Union to Japan, as well as leveraging the Kobe University Brussels European Centre as a base for expanding the University’s international exchange activities in Europe.CIE holds short-term exchange program for Australian studentsFrom January 6th~27th 2021, the Kobe University Center for International Education (CIE) held the Kobe Japanese Program January Session 2021 (Discover the Kobe Area and Japan- Australia つながり! ). The program caters to students studying Japanese at our partner universities in Australia. The rst session took place in-person in 2020, but the 2021 session was held completely online due to the pandemic. Sixteen participants from ve Australian universities participated in the course. Over the three weeks, the students took both Japanese Language and Area Studies from Monday to Saturday. The Japanese Language classes were designed as preparation for the Area Studies sessions, introducing relevant vocabulary and grammar. Having the chance to apply the new grammar points in a smaller group proved very popular with the students. In order to mitigate the lack of interaction that comes with online programs, CIE implemented a “Buddy system”, pairing each program participant with a Kobe University student.The Area Studies component focused on Kobe City and Hyogo Prefecture. Through virtual tours, video footage and live lectures from guest speakers, students learned about prominent locations as well as history, geological characteristics, various industries, and the eects of the Great Hanshin Earthquake.In the Final Presentation, students utilized the vocabulary and grammar obtained on the course to present their personal ndings about a つながり (link) between Australia and Japan. These presentations demonstrated the students’ avid interest in and deep understanding of the various themes introduced in this course.On February 1st, the Program Coordination Section of Kobe University CIE hosted a real-time online lecture in Japanese on the topic of early Japanese lm, as part of the 2021 Kobe University Winter Study Program.Undergraduate and graduate students from across the globe were warmly welcomed to Kobe University’s Zoom classroom, where participants were encouraged to learn, talk, and connect with each other on the topic of Japanese movies, with the session being facilitated by Associate Prof. ITAKURA Fumiaki of Graduate School of Intercultural Studies.The 120 students who took part in the lecture hailed from academic institutions including University of California Irvine, Beijing Foreign Studies University, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Participants were motivated to join the event due to their interest in Kobe University’s real-time online lecture on early Japanese cinema attracts students from all over the globetaking lectures in Japanese and studying abroad in Japan in the future.The lecture, entitled “Introduction to Japanese Cinema”, introduced the roles of Benshi (who provided live interpretation) and their accompanying music, which were features unique to Japanese culture during the era of silent movies in 1910s. The presentation also included an introduction to and an actual screening of cutout animation, a technique that began in 1917 and was used in early Japanese animated lms. Support was provided during the event to make the lecture more easily understandable for overseas students.Throughout the event, participants exchanged comments and asked questions through the Chat function in Japanese and enthusiastically made the most of this online opportunity for learning and exchange. The excitement, demonstrated by the ten-minute extension added to the 60-minute lecture, was tangible even through the screen.
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