Welcome from the Director

　As one of the four Japanese universities supporting the Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST), Waseda University, Kyoto University, Institute of Science Tokyo, and Kyushu University, this center was established to provide strong and continuous support for this national project jointly undertaken by Egypt and Japan.

　In addition, as the coordinator of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, one of the eight graduate schools in E-JUST, our mission is to cooperate, collaborate, and support the department in both education and research. Currently, in addition to the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, the Center is expanding its support to the Department of Electrical Power Engineering and the Department of Chemical and Petrochemical Engineering, and is promoting educational and research cooperation by establishing activity centers at the Ito and Chikushi campuses.

　By carrying out the above mission, the Center aims to achieve the following three goals.

　First, the E-JUST project itself is unique in providing support to overseas universities based on the Japanese-style education system, and we aim to establish it as a model for future international cooperation in higher education.

　Second, the Center will provide systematic and continuous educational and research guidance to students and young researchers in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, especially in Egypt, to further activate exchanges with the region. Furthermore, based on more than 10 years of joint education and research with E-JUST, we will promote inter-university cooperation with the African region, with E-JUST serving as a core institution.

　Finally, these activities will foster young faculty members who will lead the next generation at E-JUST, and will evolve into a cyclical international collaborative education program in which faculty members trained under the Japanese-style system will teach at E-JUST, and students mentored by them will study abroad in Japan.

Osamu Muta, the director of E-JUST