Special Activities ⑥

・On the 14. Jan. 2022 the Co-Students Seminar 2022 was held by online with EUTW, National Taiwan University. This Co-Seminar was held in order to increase the interest in the EU among undergraduate and graduate students and foster the students-exchange between Kobe University and NTU (No. of participating students of Kobe University; 6, of NTU; 68).

・This Seminar is held once a year, and this is the 5. holding. Students of both University made their presentations and gave comments to each other, which could deepen their knowledge of the EU,  international politics and law.

・After opening remarks of Prof. Su (Dean of Social Sciences at NTU： Director General of European Union Centre in Taiwan) and Prof. Inoue (Professor of Graduate School of Law, Kobe University), Students Presentations started.

・In the Co-Seminar of this year, seven groups made their presentations as follows: 

Group 1； “How European Union Evaluated Ractopamine”(NTU) 

Group 2； “Basic Ideas for the Energy Transition and Possibility of its Politics in the EU” (Kobe) 

Group 3 ；“Perceived Factors that Affect the Protection of Refugees Rights in EU Member State: An Illustration for Spain” (NTU)

Group 4 ；“A Battle over the Constitutional Identity between the EU and Germany: a case of the Bank Union in the EU ”(Kobe) 

Group 5 ；“European Union Emission Trading System” (NTU) 

Group 6 ；“The Unity of the European Union and Sovereignty of its Member States” (Kobe)

Group 7 ；“Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe”  (NTU)

・Each presentation was made for ca. 10 minutes.

・Between Group 3 and 4, Prof. Dr. Yoshii (Professor of Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University) and Prof. Su  made some comments to each presentation, and after their comments, all participants were made a short interval.

・This Co-Seminar was held at 10:20 ~ 12:10 (in Japanese time). (about 2 hours) 

・Normally the Co-Seminar was operated and managed in NTU, Taiwan by visiting the participating members of Kobe University to Taipei. But the Co-Seminar also on this year as the last year was held by online, because of COVID-19. Therefore, also on this year, the situation and atmosphere of the Co-Seminar were different from those on the other years before the year of 2020.

・As a result of this Co-Seminar, the friendship exchange of students of both Universities helps them understand how students from the other University perceive the EU in spite of holding by online. And the participating students of Kobe University understood how to communicate with students from abroad. It is a nice experiment for the participating students to improve their presentation skills and English debating skills. 

・The slides of power-point of the presentation of Group 4 made by a Graduate Student of Prof. INOUE's seminar was chosen as the Best Paper Award.

The above Pictures of this Co-Seminar were taken in the classroom of Kobe University.