Visit by the representatives of the University of Yamanashi

The four member delegation was led by Prof. Dr. Xiaoyang Mao, vice-rector of the University of Yamanashi and its executive director. She was in the company of her colleagues, Prof. Dr. Masaru Iwasaki, vice-rector, Dr. Akihiro Iiyama, head of the Hydrogen and fuel cells nanomaterial center, and Prof. Dr. Hitomitsu Nishizaki, head of the Centre for the promotion of internationalisation.

The meeting was aimed at establishing cooperation between the University of Nova Gorica and the University of Yamanashi both within educational and research fields, and is a continuation of the conversations that the rector of the University of Nova Gorica and the rector of the University of Ljubljana, Prof. Dr. Gregor Majdič, had during their visit to Japan this year.

University of Yamanashi is among the leading universities in Japan; it comprises of four faculties: Faculty of Education, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, and two postgraduate faculties. It also has a number of research institutes and educational institutions, such as the Centre for hidrogen and fuel cell nanomaterials and the Institute for enology and viticulture. The University is well-known primarily for its top research in the field of hydrogen technologies and advanced materials.
The University of Ljubljana and the University of Yamanashi have signed a general inter-institutional agreement; at the same time, there has been an ongoing cooperation within the international ects mobility, which enables the co-financing of students and staff exchanges between the two universities.

During their stay in Slovenia, the representatives of the University of Yamanashi met also with the representatives of the University of Ljubljana.