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Development of Teaching Materials for EOD and Demining
7,200,000 yen (Grant Project)
Japan Mine Action Service (JMAS, Japan)
Eighty million land mines are said to remain underground and have been great obstacles to re-construction in devastated countries. The project aims to develop teaching materials for demining land mines and the disposal of blind shells. The project also aims to construct a platform to foster experts with a high spirit of international contribution by studying training frameworks, including training and management facilities and teaching materials, and preparing teaching manuals and a syllabus.
Activities of the last year will be as follows.
- Domestic study (June to August, 2006)
Interviews and collecting materials concerning (1) effective management of demining, (2) relevant activities, and (3) relevant technology of demining, according to the following schedules.
1) Training in demining methods and the possibility of educating the private sector at the 7th Division and 11th Division of the Self-Defense Force in Hokkaido in June, 2006 (4 days)
2) Practicing with demining machines at Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. In Yamanashi in July, 2006 (2 days)
3) Collection of demining documents and participating in a study meeting at Komatsu, Ltd. in Osaka in July, 2006 (3days)
4) Site visit to Fuji School in Gotenba (managed by the Higashi Fuji Facility of the Self-Defense Force) in October, 2006 (2days)
- Site visit to a foreign country (6 days in May, 2006)
JMAS will visit UXLAO in Laos, which has been conducting demining training?and disposals of blind shells to collect information.
- Meetings to prepare materials and textbooks for demining (After April, twice a week at JMAS)
Based on the above studies, JMAS will hold meetings twice a week to discuss policies, directions, and syllabus for the preparation of teaching materials and a text on demining
(Final year of a 3-year project)
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