Pre-event

Moderator: Hiroyuki TANI, Director, Iberoamerican Institute, Sophia University

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◆Session 1: Triple helix (academy-government-industry) Collaboration
Presentation title: Japan-Mexico Multidisciplinary Partnerships Based on Academia, Public Sector, Civil Societies and Private Industry Collaborations

Abstract:
University of Tsukuba together with its partner Japanese universities have been experiencing multi-sector partnerships among academia, public sector, civil societies and private industry in Mexico. Besides the academic research applications for SDGs, we have been catalyzing empowerment with the partners in Mexico and neighboring countries. The cases are provided with emphasis on agricultural, food, and environmental sectors also on Japanese language & vocational educational sectors.

Kazuo WATANABE is a professor at Tsukuba Plant Innovation Research Center, Univ. of Tsukuba since 2001. He completed Ph.D. at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison on Plant Breeding & Plant Genetics. At his earlier career he had worked in North and South Americas particularly in Peru and Mexico, and recent activities are at more global, but emphasis with APEC economic zones. He has been working dually on international student activities and research on plant genetics, breeding and genetic resources with biotechnology application with biodiplomacy at UT since 2001.

◆Session 2: Women participation in research fields
Presentation Title: Gains, losses and emerging challenges regarding the participation of Mexican women in higher education

Abstract:
The last decades have seen a rapid growth in the enrollment of Mexican women in higher education showing higher graduation rates than men. Nevertheless, have not been followed by corresponding progress in the participation of women as senior researchers and professors, a greater presence of women in decision-making positions within the universities and an equivalent increase in female labor participation rates. The presentation introduces some ideas of initiatives within the university environment that can reduce gender inequalities.

Silvia E. GIORGULI SAUCEDO, president of El Colegio de México [COLMEX] (2015-present). Furthermore, former director (2009-2015) and professor-researcher (2003–present) of the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies, COLMEX, and former president of the Mexican Society of Demography. She studied Sociology at UNAM, a Demography master’s degree at COLMEX, a doctorate in Sociology at Brown University, and a research stay at Stanford University. Her research has focused on: international migration from Mexico to US, transitions to adulthood in Latin America, and the effects of demographic change. She is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (CONACYT). In 2018, she received the Horace Mann Medal from Brown University.

◆Session 3: World University Rankings
Presentation title: What reputation management did for Kyushu University: Lessons from hosting QS-APPLE 2019

Abstract:
Since at least the late 1990s, higher education institutions (HEIs) have been vying with one another for talented students, excellent researchers, external funding, and more. Against this backdrop, reputation management (RM) has emerged as a critical undertaking that HEIs can ignore only at their own risk. As part of its internationalization effort, Kyushu University has — since 2014 — endeavored to raise its reputation by actively engaging in RM. Drawing on my experiences as a member of Kyushu U’s RM unit, I will discuss how the university’s hosting of a well-known international convention affected its reputation.

Having been educated at Sophia University (Japan) and the University of Oxford (UK), Takeshi HIROSE is a moral and political philosopher by training. He has, however, made his professional career not as an academic, but rather as an administrator with a specialty in international education. He designed and managed a range of study abroad programmes for higher education institutions both in Japan and the US. He currently works at Kyushu University, a recipient of Japan’s celebrated Top Global University grant, and is heavily involved in the university’s on-going effort to become a global research and education hub. Reflecting his dual interests, his publications are in the areas of higher education and political philosophy.