An agreement on strategic cooperation between the University of Nova Gorica and the University of Yamanshi
On 28 February, the rector of the University of Nova Gorica, Prof. Dr. Boštjan Golob, visited the Japanese University of Yamanshi to sign an agreement on strategic cooperation between the two institutions.
The president of the University of Yamanshi, Kazuhiko Nakamura, the executive directors, Prof. Dr. Xiaoyang Mao and Prof. Dr. Toru Okuda, and director of the Centre for the promotion of internationalisation, Prof. Dr. Hiromitsu Nishizaki, took part at the event.
By signing the agreement, the two institutions aim to foster a fruitful scientific and pedagogical cooperation in the fields of viticulture and wine studies, materials science and astrophysics. The general agreement represents a good foundation for more concrete, operative agreements on cooperation in the future.
The University of Yamanashi is one of the leading universities in Japan, comprising four faculties: Faculty of Education, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences and two postgraduate schools. The university has a great number of research institutes and educational institutions, such as the Fuel Cell Nanomaterials Centre and the Institute of Enology and Viticulture. The university is particularly known fof its excellent research in the field of hydrogen technologies and advanced materials.