PROJECTS
SPF Program Agenda(2004)

Contemporary Japanese Studies at Central European Universities


12,000,000 yen[Self-Operated/Grant Project]
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, St. Stephenfs University, Agroman Educational Foundation (Hungary), Karel University (Czech Republic)


After 4 years of experience with the project, it is realized that the management of the course of management should be based on the conditions in each country. Following the last year, SPF will continue to extend grants to modern Japanese economy and management courses at St. Stephenfs University in Hungary. SPF will dispatch visiting professors to Karel University in the Czech Republic to found its East Asia Study courses, and commission annual management to Karel University. SPF will dispatch visiting professors to Slovakia and Poland from Japan as it always has in the past. The main activities will be as follows:
  1. Arrangement with the universities (July to September, 2005)
    The universities and SPF will hold discussions to reach agreements on the selection of visiting professors, course date, syllabus, and evaluation methods of student achievement.
  2. Commission to Karel University (July 2005 to March 2006)
    SPF will commission the management of regular courses to Karel University and the Institute of International Studies. Visiting professors will be selected in Japan and dispatched to these universities from Japan.
  3. Dispatching of visiting professors (October 2005 to March 2006)
    Visiting professors will be dispatched from Japan to teach modern Japanese economy and management at the universities in Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
  4. Grant project (See also CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE STUDIES IN HUNGARY, which is commissioned to St. Stephenfs University Agroman Educational Foundation (Hungary).)
    1. Preparatory activities for teaching, July to September, 2005
    2. Teaching by 3 members of the Hungarian teaching faculty, October 2005 to January 2006
    3. Evaluation of student achievement, February, 2006

(4th year of a 5-year project)





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