Full of online programs! “IAfP” which connects Africa and Japan has started!!
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Have you heard of the IAfP, the “Inter-University Exchange Project (Africa)” that started last year? This program, which was adopted and launched under the COVID-19 pandemic, focuses not only on the face-to-face exchange of students to the partner African universities, but also on online “education and exchange programs”.
The specific name of the project “IAfP” stands for “Innovative Africa: Educational Networking Programs for Human Resource Development in Africa’s SDGs”. The IAfP was adopted in 2020 as an “Inter-University Exchange Project: Support for the Formation of Collaborative Programs with African Universities” by MEXT.
This article will introduce the IAfP by interviews and comments with the IAfP coordinator, students who participated in last year’s online programs, and the professors involved in the IAfP!
Interview with the IAfP coordinator KUMASHIRO Chihiro, the assistant professor
——Please tell us what is IAfP.
In this program, we collaborate with five African partner universities (below) with which TUFS has MOU, and exchange students by physical traveling and conduct exchange programs on online. The purpose of this project is to train and nurture individuals who can lead the realization of technological and social innovations in Africa. This program, which will run until 2024, will be implemented in cooperation with Kyoto University, a Japanese partner university. But specific programs will be planned individually. At our university, we are working together with the pro