{"id":7901,"date":"2024-07-02T09:37:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T00:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2024-12-18T16:40:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T07:40:37","slug":"240702-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/240702-1\/","title":{"rendered":"MoU signed with Taiwan Polar Institute, National Central University, Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span>On June 28, 2024, Arctic Research Center (ARC) signed a Memorandum of <\/span><span>Understanding (MOU) on international cooperation in research and <\/span><span>education with the Taiwan Polar Institute (TaiPI), National Central <\/span><span>University (NCU) of Taiwan in Taoyuan, Taiwan. The TaiPI was established <\/span><span>in summer 2023\uff0e<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The signing ceremony was attended by Dr. Shotaro Uto, Deputy Director and <\/span><span>Specially Appointed Professor, and Dr. Yuji Kodama, Senior Specialist, <\/span><span>Ph.D. from ARC. From NCU, Vice President of NCU Hsu Ping-Yu, Dean of <\/span><span>College of Earth Sciences Hsu Shu-Kun, Director of TaiPI Ni Chuen-Fa, <\/span><span>Professor Chien Hwa of TaiPI , and post-doctoral <\/span><span>fellows, students, and staff from National Central University<\/span><br \/><span>participated in the ceremony, which was chaired by Dr. Giletycz Stawomir <\/span><span>Jack, Assistant Professor of the TaiPI. The signing ceremony proceeded <\/span><span>without delay and the MOU was concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Paul Arthur Berkman, founder of the Science Diplomacy Center, a U.S. <\/span><span>non-profit organization, who was invited as a keynote speaker to the GIS <\/span><span>Japan-Taiwan-Korea gathering (ICEO&amp;SI24) starting the next day, <\/span><span>participated as an observer and commented that he looks forward to the <\/span><span>development of cooperative relations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The MOU calls for the ARC and the TaiPI to cooperate in a spirit of <\/span><span>greater understanding, to deepen friendly relationships and ties of<\/span><br \/><span>mutual benefit, and to foster collaboration. The parties will undertake <\/span><span>to initiate joint activities, including, but not limited to: A) organizing<\/span><br \/><span>and performing joint research projects, academic seminars, <\/span><span>and faculty guest lectures; B) arranging the exchange of students, <\/span><span>early-career researchers, and faculty members; C) exchanging scientific <\/span><span>data and information, and assisting each other when appropriate in <\/span><span>organizing conferences, seminars, workshops, and other activities of <\/span><span>mutual interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the reception after the signing ceremony, there was an immediate <\/span><span>proposal to mutually hold a symposium to commemorate the signing the MoU <\/span><span>and promote exchange of young researchers. We look forward to future <\/span><span>exchanges between the two parties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_7900\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/DSC00053-760x507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"507\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7900\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TaiPI Director Ni Chuen-Fa (left)and ARC Acting Director Uto Shotaro (right). Photo by Dr. Li Jimmy Li-Ching.<\/p><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On June 28, 2024, Arctic Research Center (ARC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on international coo [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hai-fes-news","category-nocategory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8202,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions\/8202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arc.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}