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The 1st International SDGs Forum and the 2nd Open Forum “Connecting to the World” was held
The 1st International SDGs Forum and the 2nd Open Forum “Connecting to the World” organized by the Engineering Academy of Japan SDGs Project was held in IUJ on January 28th, 2018. IUJ co-organized the event. The morning sessions focus on the financial issues associated with SDGs. Associate Professor of Finance at IUJ, Haruyoshi Ito delivered the opening remarks and presented overview of SDGs finance scheme in Japan and all over the world. 2nd year Master student at GSIM in IUJ, Moses Ayuk Bate presented SDGs Implementation in an Evolving Global Development Finance Landscape. He summarized the financial SDGs situation in Africa. Dr. Zin Zhou of Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) presented the “SDG Interlinkages and Social Network Analysis: Finance in SDGs”. She showed the methodologies which could be utilized to establish the financial scheme and indicators to enhance the achievement of SDGs in Japan.
In the afternoon, President Itami gave welcome remarks. Associate Professor Ito delivered the opening remarks in lieu of Professor Kitagawa at Aoyama Gakuin University. Dr. Haruo Takeda presented the possible collaborations among industry, academia, and government for SDGs. After that 11 IUJ students representing 9 countries (Senegal, Uzbekistan, Myanmar, Vietnam, South Africa, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, and Madagascar) presented about the 7 SDGs (No Poverty, Quality of Education, Gender Equality, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry
Innovation and Infrastructure, Sustainable Cities and Communities, and Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions).
After the presentations, all participants form groups associated with each goal and discuss about 1. Real issues in their countries, 2. What are the possible solutions, and 3. How Japanese
Corporations/Institutions could help with these issues? All groups had active and fruitful discussions. Japanese participants looked happy with the interaction with IUJ students and said they were able to understand the real issues and how we could establish the effective financial scheme. We do hope this opportunity is a great initiative and first step to connect the world and achieve 17 SDGs.
This forum was organized with help of the Engineering Academy of Japan, Study Group of Innovation for Value Creation, staff from Hitachi Corporations, IUJ staff, faculty, and students. Special thanks given to all of IM and IR council listed below. Thank you very much for all of your support.
IM Council
· Mariam January
· Zoubeir Tkiouat
· Parvina Khujaeva
· Omer Mohammedahmed
· Asma Bahri
· Nguyen Minh Quan
· Yousra OUAHABI AL HASSANI
· Yosuke Kumagai
· Akinori Shimura
IR Council
· Nini Tskhvariashvili
· Nina Moce
· Eze Okechukwu Ignatius
· Jhaine Lyka A. Villa
· Mbali Sexwale
· Kimberly Chan
Schedule of the forum
The 1st International SDGs Forum
The 2nd Open Forum “Connecting to the World”
1. Financial Session Program
10:00-10:05 | Opening Remarks
Associate Professor of Finance at IUJ, Dr. Haruyoshi Ito |
10:05-10:20 | SDGs Finance in Japan and all over the World: Cases and Proposed FrameworkAssociate Professor of Finance at IUJ, Dr. Haruyoshi Ito |
10:20-10:40 | Sustainable development goals implementation in an evolving global development finance landscapeMBA Candidate at IUJ, Moses Mohamed Ayuk |
10:40-11:00 | SDG Interlinkages and Social Network Analysis: Finance in SDGs
Principal Policy Researcher and Research Leader at Strategic and |
11:00-11:20 | Discussion and Brainstorming for the Creation of New Financial Indicators |
11:20-11:30 | Concluding Remarks
The Leader for SDGs at the Engineering Academy of Japan, |
2. Afternoon Sessions
12:30-12:40 | Opening Remarks
President of IUJ, Dr. Hiroyuki Itami |
12:40-12:50 | Significance of the Establishment of Research Group of “SDGs and Finance”
Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University/ President at Research Group of |
12:50-13:10 | Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration for SDGs
The Leader for SDGs at the Engineering Academy of Japan, |
13:10-15:20 | Presentations on current situation and issues in each country from the perspective of SDGs |
1. Madagascar’s long walk for achieving SDGs goal n°1: assessment of poverty before and during the political crisis in 2009. Case of Four Neighborhoods in the Capital City AntananarivoRAKOTOARIVELO Zo Havana Iagahajaina 2. Sustainable Development Goals: Promoting Japanese Kaizen in the 3. Quality of Education: Online EducationOtabek Kasimov 4. A Window of Opportunity for Union Budget Reform of Education Zin Mar Htwe 5. Participation By Interest Actors In TRIPS Agreement Of WTO: Did E.N.R DE SILVA 6. Gender imbalance in Vietnam My Nguyen 7. Sustaining Women in the Age of Sustainability: A Preliminary BENNITTA SENYATSI 8. FREE TRADE vs PROTECTIONISM: Free Trade as Driving Force of Dennis Nyaga 9. Can the slippery slope framework be applied in developing Zelima Ademba 10. OVERVIEW OF ETHIOPIA’S INDUSTRIALIZATION PRACTICES AND CHALLGEs Habtom Welday 11. Sustainability of Tourism industry in Sri Lanka H.A.B.W. Hettiarachchi P.W Mudalige |
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16:20-16:30 | Closing Remarks
Executive Director at the Engineering Academy of Japan, Mr. Hiroshi Nagano |
Left: President Hiroyuki Itami
Middle: Ms. diarietou Gueye
Right: Mr. E.N.R De Silva
Left: Question and Answer
Middle: Group Discussion
Right: Group Presentation
IUJ Online Application for 2018 Admissions is now available
We are pleased to inform you that the IUJ online application for 2018 admissions (Master’s programs) is now available through IUJ’s website: https://www.iuj.ac.jp/admis/
The 2018 Admissions Guidelines and the Scholarship Guidelines are also available at the same site.
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IUJ SKI DAY 2018 was successfully held on February 4
The biggest winter event, IUJ SKI DAY was held at Municipal Hakkai Sanroku Ski Resort on February 4th by the Graduate Student Organization Executive Committee (GSO-EC). There were 150 participants of IUJ students, their families, faculty, staff, IUJ Alumni and local friends spent a day for skiing, snowboarding and sledding together under the blue sky.
Intermediate and expert skiers and snowboarders including local Japanese instruct the beginners in the morning, enjoyed rice balls and vegetable soup at lunch and had free time in the afternoon. They spent a whole day having fun on the snow.
Thank you very much for all who supported the event. Special thanks to all staff members of Hakkai Sanroku Ski school, lift and rental shops.
Comment from Ms. Patraporn Padungkul from Thailand, MBA program:
I can say that this activity is a must for anyone who comes here and has no experience in skiing or snowboarding. It was an amazing and superb day. Even though I have no experience in snowboard, there were instructors who helped me get used to it. At first, everyone might fear to fall but you have to fall first then you can do it well. Actually, I fell a lot but I cannot stop myself from keeping doing it. I rode the ropeway and went down by myself for five times (but fell down a lot). After I came back from ski place, my whole body was not my body anymore because my muscles do not listen to my order hahaha but I really really like snowboarding. Now, I am snowboard-addicted. By the way, a big big thank to everyone who made this wonderful day for all of us.