[call for application] Kanazawa University_Call for Short-Stay Program 2020-2021

[call for application] Kanazawa University_Call for Short-Stay Program 2020-2021


semarang, io.undip.ac.id; Kanazawa University in collaboration with International Office Universitas Diponegoro invite all students of Universitas Diponegoro to join Kanazawa University Short-Stay Program (2020-2021) (KU-SSP). You may visit the official website of Kanazawa University or kindly read this steps to prepare:

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Kanazawa University Short-Stay Program (KU-SSP)

Purpose
This program provides Japanese language and culture courses, for students from the Institutions that principally
have an exchange agreement with Kanazawa University.

Courses
Summer Program (Festival Visit): June 22 – July 10 (3 weeks) 【subject to change】
Winter Program (Japanese New Year): December 27,2020 -January 16, 2021 (3 weeks) 【subject to change】
Spring Program (Touch of Japanese Culture): February 15-24 (10 days) 【subject to change】

Number of Students
20 for each course

Eligibility
Applicants must satisfy all of the following requirements.
They must…
1. be currently enrolled in the undergraduate program at the partner universities of Kanazawa University,
2. be in good academic standing,
3. have a clear purpose for study abroad as well as full intention to devote themselves to academic and other
cultural activities,
4. go back to their home institutions and continue their education after finishing the program,
5. be able to obtain appropriate visa status in Japan,
6. be proficient in English (CEFR B2 level) and have possibly studied the Japanese language for more than one
semester.

Housing
Students will stay in a hotel (TBA)
Participants in the Winter Program have an opportunity to experience a home-stay with a local family.
Payment for housing is included in the program fee.

Program Fee
JPY 200,000 for the Summer and Winter Programs
JPY 100,000 for the Spring Programs
Program fee includes:
・Tuition (Japanese Language and Cultural Studies)
・Accommodation in Kanazawa (Hotel and/or Home-stay)
・Program activities including an excursion
Program fee DOES NOT include:
・International and domestic travel to and from Kanazawa
・Travel Insurance (Students must be covered by a travel insurance
throughout the program.)
・Meals (Students need to pay for daily lunch and dinner while they are
staying at the hotel. At the home-stay, all meals will be served by the host family,
except when eating out.)

Japan Student Service Organization (JASSO) Scholarship – JPY 80,000
Up to 20 participants in each program belonging to the institutions that have concluded a Memorandum on
Student Exchange with Kanazawa University and having the nationality of the countries or regions that have
diplomatic relations with Japan will be paid a monthly stipend, if accepted as a JASSO (Japan Student Services
Organization) scholarship grantee. (Note: Students from Taiwan and Palestine are also considered eligible.
Students who have Japanese citizenship are NOT eligible.)

APPLICATION FOR KU-SSP2020
Step 1: Fill out the application form and prepare additional documents below.
* Official or unofficial transcript from the applicant’s home institution
(1 copy, PDF format)
* ID photo (1 copy, 3cm x 4cm, JPEG or other digital format)
* Photocopy of the ID page of the applicant’s passport (1 copy, PDF
format)
* Proof of Japanese or English Proficiency (or a letter of recommendation
issued by a specialist in language education) (1 copy, PDF format)

Step 2: Submit the completed application materials to the international office of the home institution. Note that
Kanazawa University only accepts application through the applicant’s home institution. Application by an
individual student will not be processed.
Step 3: The applicant’s home institution will send his/her application materials to Kanazawa University by the
following deadline:
Application materials are available online at the School of International Education website
(http://kuglobal.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/eg/sie/). Note that application individually submitted by students will not
be accepted.

Application Deadline
February 14, 2020 for the Summer Program
September 4, 2020 for the Winter Program
October 2, 2020 for the Spring Program

Notification of Acceptance
Kanazawa University will notify students of their acceptance to the program in March 2020 (for Summer
Program), October 2020 (for Winter Program) and November 2020 (for Spring Program) through their home
institutions.
Note that within a month after they receive a letter of acceptance, students are required to submit a Certificate
of Health and Immunization Record to the International Student Section at Kanazawa University.

Visa
Students of some countries might be required to obtain a “Temporary Visit (tourist) Visa” to Japan.
For information about obtaining a visa, please see:
Guide to Japanese VISA
http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/
Japanese embassies, Consulates and, Permanent Missions
https://www.mofa.go.jp/about/emb_cons/over/index.html

KU-insurance
Participants are required to take out KU-insurance covering medical expenses and personal liability. The
insurance fee is included in the program fee.

Courses
Japanese Culture and Language (2 transfer credits for the Summer and Winter Programs and 1 transfer credit
for the Spring Program)
Every program has two sections, the Japanese language course and the culture course. In the language course,
you will review grammar that you have learned at your home institution, and learn more vocabulary and
communication skills that you will need for everyday life in Japan, as well as for your culture class. The culture
class will introduce the basics of Japanese traditional culture as well as everyday culture.
There are activities with different topics (see below) and they complement the language and culture classes. You
will learn the vocabulary related to the culture class.

Sample topics:
1. Sado (Tea Ceremony)
2. Kenrokuen Garden
3. Wagashi (Japanese sweets)
4. Home stay (Winter course)
5. Kinpaku (Gold leaf)
6. Wadaiko (Japanese drums)
7. Shirakawago
8. Budo (Japanese Martial Art)
9. Summer festival

 

KU-SSP_Guidelines (2)

KU-SSP_Application-form

source: official email

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[Call For Participant] Postgraduate Degree in Specialized Medical Training in French University Hospital

[Call For Participant] Postgraduate Degree in Specialized Medical Training in French University Hospital


Semarang, io.undip.ac.id; Good news! International Office (IO) of Diponegoro University is pleased to announce to all students of Diponegoro University that applications are now opened for postgraduate degree in specialized medical training hosted by The University & Education Cooperation Department of the French Embassy. The Degree will be taken in a French University Hospital, starting from November 2020, for a minimum of 2 semesters. Students will have the status of “interns” – performing an internship as medical doctors ( salary as of Jan 2020,1st: 1 280 €/month).

Here are Specialization Fields offered: Specialization Fields – Medicine -Pharmacy 2020-2021

The Call is open to candidates who meet the following requirements:

  • Graduated in Medicine or Pharmacy in their home country/country of residence
  • Authorized to practice medicine or pharmacy in their home country/country of residence
  • Enrolled in specialization studies in their home country/country of residence and still have to undertake a minimum of 2 semesters of hospital practice by November 2020.
  •   Be proficient in French language – a B2 level is expected by April 2020  . Should an Indonesian candidate commit to reach this level by June the latest, the French Embassy will support his/her application.

Application form can be downloaded here. Forms should be sent to the French Embassy by postal mail.

Application Timeline:

  • 15 Feb 2020:   deadline for  “application form 1”
  • March 2020: pre-selection – preselected candidates will be informed by the French program coordinator.
  • 15 April 2020: deadline for the “application form 2” – for pre-selected candidates only
  • 10 July 2020: final selection
  • 1 November 2020: starting date

 

 

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[Call for Participant] Study Abroad at the University of the Ryukyus – Short-Term Exchange Program (Fall 2020)

[Call for Participant] Study Abroad at the University of the Ryukyus – Short-Term Exchange Program (Fall 2020)

Semarang, io.undip.ac.id; Good news! International Office (IO) of Diponegoro University is pleased to announce to all students in Diponegoro University that applications are now opened for Short-Term Exchange Program (Fall 2020) at the University of the Ryukyus, Japan.

University of the Ryukyus will launch a new student exchange program from Spring 2020 to provide students more fruitful and fulfilling experience. This new program is “RISE Program (Ryukyus International Student Exchange Program)”. Ryukyus International Student Exchange (RISE) Program is an arrangement made between the University and other affiliated Universities that enables students to come to the University to conduct research and take classes related to the students’ majors. This program provides students with a deeper understanding of both Okinawan and Japanese cultures and customs. It also gives students the opportunity to return to Japan in the future to pursue graduate studies or research.

Courses Offered

(1) Japan-Okinawa Studies Course

(2) Glocal Leadership Course

(3) Japanese Language Teacher Training Course

(4) Major Studies Course

 

Application Documents :

(1) Application Form( Form 1, Form 2-5, Certificate of Eligibility*

*Please submit this CoE form in Excel format.

(2) Recommendation Letter

(3) Academic transcript from the applicant’s home University

(4) Certificate of Enrollment from the applicant’s home University

(5) Color photograph (showing clearly the applicant’s head and shoulders, 3cm x 4cm against a plain white, gray or blue background)

(6) Color copy of applicant’s passport (page with personal details)

(7) The student must either be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student who has completed his/her first year of study at his/her home Institution or be matriculated as a graduate student.

(8) Junior college students who apply must be in their final year of study.

(9) The students must be proficient in Japanese at the level required by each given Admission and Period of Stay course.

 

Kindly access the links below for this exchange program brochures.

Program Brochure

To apply this program, Diponegoro University’s students have to submit all documents in electronic format to our e-mail: io@live.undip.ac.id with subject the University of the Ryukyus (Rise Program)_Fall 2020_Student Name

 

Application Deadline for Documents Submission to International Office of Diponegoro University: March, 9 2020

 

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Diponegoro International Office holds Taiwan Education Expo 2020

Diponegoro International Office holds Taiwan Education Expo 2020


semarang, io.undip.ac.id; International Office of Diponegoro University or well known as DIO, Diponegoro International Office in collaboration with PPI (Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia) Taiwan conducted Taiwan Education Expo 2020 on January 23, 2020. This event was held as the implementation of reciprocal cooperation between Taiwan Education and Trade Organization (TETO) and Indonesian trade representative in Taiwan. Every year, the government of Taiwan provides hundreds of scholarship schemes. Taiwan scholarship is deployed to several institution such as Ministry Of Science and Technology (MOST), Ministry Of Education , Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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To promote those all informations, PPI send three Indonesian scholars who are undergoing their Ph.D program in Taiwan, Anita Listiara, Arwan dan Banu. The talks begin with the speech from Head of International Office, Kartika Widya who emphasize the importance of education in the disruption era, Industrial Revolution 4.0. He also welcomes, especially for Indonesian Scholars who undertaking the PhD in Taiwan and very honored to host them in Taiwan Scholarship Expo 2020 held in Undip.

Anisa Listiara

Ms. Anisa Listiara is originally the lecturer of the faculty of psychology at Universitas Diponegoro. She applied Taiwan government scholarship in 2017 and accepted in 2018. She is undergoing the PhD program in cognitive science in Chung Cheng University Taiwan. She share her stories how difficult to get scholarship from abroad  but she encourage the audience to try and never give up. She also mentioned that living in Taiwan is not as hard as people think in terms of language, culture, food , etc. She also gives tips and tricks to get scholarship, especially in Taiwan.

While Mr. Arwan, the other Indonesian scholar who is actually lecturer of faculty of engineering Universitas Diponegoro emphasize that it is important to know all possible offers (scholarship-red) within or outside of Indonesia. “International scholarship is a prestige but national scholarship is also good. Do not limit yourself to get something in this world! Be open minded to all chances that you can take. I am not encouraging you to only apply scholarship in Taiwan, even today we are talking about Taiwan higher education and scholarship. I thank to International Office of Universitas Diponegoro that please us to deliver the information we get.

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Sabrina, a 5th semester student from Faculty of Public Health gave her impression to this expo. “I am so happy to know these all information since I have greater expectation to apply international scholarship and Taiwan could be my consideration. Taiwan offers a huge number of scholarships and I want to apply for that

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Promoting research on disaster mitigation, Chungnam University Korea pays a visit to Undip

Promoting research on disaster mitigation, Chungnam University Korea pays a visit to Undip


semarang, io.undip.ac.id; Greetings DIO Buddies, Annyeong Haseyo. Today, Chungnam National University, Korea is visiting our Faculty of Engineering. There are several discussions about cooperation possibilities in many engineering areas of naval engineering, satellite, robotics and disaster management technology. In this meeting, Chungnam National University delegations lead by Prof. Kim Dojin, present the collaboration possibility in the academic and research. Chungnam National University delegation is welcomed by the Dean of Engineering Faculty Prof M. Agung Wibowo and Dr. Dessy Ariyanti, from Faculty of Engineering International Office. Even though the meeting is on the initial stage, both parties seem on the same page to continue the process of the research and academic collaboration. One of Diponegoro University’s most leading centers in engineering CoREM (Center for Coastal Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation) http://pkmbrp.undip.ac.id/ also presenting their work in artificial microsatellites to act as an early warning system.

There are also talks about the possibility of our undergraduate student to join Chungnam National University programs such as twinning and double degree program. However, almost all courses of undergraduate program in Chungnam University taught in Hangeul. We hope that this condition did not impede the possibility for our students to experience learning in Korea. There are also many possibilities for Master’s degree and Ph.D. degree, student exchange and other short course programs. The morning session is closed with gift exchange from both parties and a promise that this fruitful meeting proceeds with processing Memorandum of Understanding that will be conducted by both Universities International Office.

DIO will keep you informed if there are any recruitment and opportunity from Chungnam National University in the future. Feel free to contact our office to get the latest information regarding international activity and the opportunity to study abroad. We assure you that our friendly officer will help you throughout the entire process

[IO HIGHLIGHT] Busan to Semarang, Undip welcomed Dong A University Delegations

[IO HIGHLIGHT] Busan to Semarang, Undip welcomed Dong A University Delegations


 

Semarang, io.undip.semarang: – Prof. Dr. Ir. Ambariyanto, M.Sc., as the Vice-Rector of Research and Innovation Universitas Diponegoro, warmly welcomed the Dong-A University delegations at Rector’s Office Widya Puraya Universitas Diponegoro. The meeting between Universitas Diponegoro and Dong-A University was held on Wednesday, 11th December, 2019.

Dong-A University delegations were consisted of Dr. Yeong Hyeon Hwang as Dean of International Affairs Office, Sung-Tae Kim as Senior Manager of International Affairs Office, and Prof. Dr. Je Dae- Sik, M.Pd. as representatives of Foundation for Industry-Academic Cooperation.

The main goal of this meeting was to strengthen and to expand the academic cooperation between Dong-A University and Universitas Diponegoro. The cooperation between Universitas Diponegoro and Dong-A University included the International Undergraduate Program (IUP) which is hosted by the Engineering Faculty of Universitas Diponegoro. In addition, Prof. Ambar hoped that the academic cooperation between both universities can be expanded in Joint Research, Summer Program, and so on with other faculties of Universitas Diponegoro and Dong-A University as well. The meeting was closed with souvenirs exchange between both universities. (JJ)