Academic Cooperation Agreement Concluded with University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota and Tokyo Tech entered into a formal partner university relationship for academic cooperation in April 2013. The Institute has university-wide academic cooperation agreements with 96 institutions in 26 countries/regions for the purpose of promoting international exchanges for research and study.

Tokyo Tech then-President Yoshinao Mishima signed an academic cooperation agreement with the University of Minnesota on April 23, 2013 in Minneapolis. President Eric Kaler of the University of Minnesota and then-President Mishima delivered congratulatory speeches at the signing ceremony which was attended by Associate Vice President and Dean Meredith McQuaid and two Tokyo Tech professors. The ceremony was also attended by three University of Minnesota students, past and future participants in Tokyo Tech's TiROP Summer Program (see below).

The University of Minnesota is a participating university in the Tokyo Tech International Research Opportunities Program (TiROP). TiROP is one of two initiatives under the Tokyo Institute of Technology International Education and Research (TIER) Program launched last year with a grant awarded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in its Re-Inventing Japan Project.

Additionally, the University of Minnesota is a participating university in the Summer Exchange Research Program (SERP) of the Graduate School of Engineering and the School of Engineering.

It is expected that the agreement will further exchanges between the University of Minnesota and Tokyo Tech.

Academic Cooperation Agreement Concluded with University of Minnesota

University-wide Agreements

EUROPE	Belgium	Ghent University
	Denmark	University of Copenhagen Technical University of Denmark
	Finland	Aalto University Lappeenranta University of Technology
	Farnce	Paris Tech Université de Strasbourg University of Rennes 1
	Germany	Leibniz Universität Hannover Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen Technische Universität München Technische Universität Berlin Universität Stuttgart
	Netherlands	Delft University of Technology
	Italy	Politecnico di Milano The University of Rome "La Sapienza" University of Bologna
	Norway	Norwegian University of Science & Technology
	Sweden	Chalmers University of Technology Linköping University Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
	Switzerland	Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH) University of Zurich
	United Kingdom	Churchill College, University of Cambridge University of Durham University of Strathclyde
Asia	China	Beijing Institute of Technology Dalian University of Technology Harbin Institute of Technology Shanghai Jiao Tong University The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Tianjin University Tongji University Tsinghua University University of Science and Technology of China Xi´an Jiaotong University Zhejiang University
	Indonesia	Bandung Institute of Technology Universitas Gadjah Mada Universitas Indonesia
	Korea	Hanyang University Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Korea University Kyungpook National University Pohang University of Science and Technology Seoul National University Sungkyunkwan University Yonsei University
	Mongolia	Mongolian University of Science and Technology National University of Mongolia
	Philippines	De La Salle University University of the Philippines University of the Philippines, Diliman
	Singapore	Nanyang Technological University National University of Singapore
	Taiwan	National Central University National Cheng Kung University National Chiao Tung University National Taiwan University National Tsing Hua University
	Thailand	Asian Institute of Technology Chulalongkorn University Kasetsart University King Mongkut´s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang King Mongkut´s University of Technology North Bangkok King Mongkut´s University of Technology Thonburi National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) TAIST- Tokyo Tech Thammasat University
	Vietnam	Hanoi University of Science and Technology Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology Vietnam National University, Hanoi, University of Science
The Middle East	Iran	Sharif University of Technology
The Middle East	Turkey	Middle East Technical University Boğaziçi University Istanbul Technical University
Oceania	Australia	The University of Melbourne
North and South America	Brazil	Universidade de São Paulo
	Canada	University of British Columbia University of Waterloo
	United States	Georgia Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley University of Minnesota University of Washington

TIER is one of several of Tokyo Tech's flagship initiatives to cultivate global techno-scientific leaders through the establishment of a cooperative network of world-class research universities. TiROP, one of the two initiatives under TIER, provides talented undergraduate and graduate students of the participating sixteen leading science and technology universities in Asia, Europe and the US with opportunities to conduct short-term research projects under the supervision of a host professor and take courses for up to one year.

Summer Exchange Research Program (SERP)

University of Minnesota

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Published: May 2013

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