Dr. Glenn B. Gregorio, SEARCA Director and Dr. Yoichi Sakata, Director of the Center for International Programs, Tokyo NODAI during the MOA signing in Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan – The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), Southeast Asian University Consortium for Graduate Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC), and Tokyo University of Agriculture (Tokyo NODAI) signed a Memorandum of Agreement on 22 November 2019 regarding the Tokyo NODAI-UC Scholarship for Dissertation Doctorate Program. This partnership aims to enhance the agricultural research and development in Southeast Asia by allowing SEAMEO scholars to be conferred a doctorate degree from Tokyo NODAI upon satisfying the requirements for doctorate dissertation work.
Tokyo NODAI offers a unique, integrated approach to agricultural education through its three campuses with the Faculties of Applied Bio-Science, Regional Environmental Science, International Agriculture and Food Studies located at its Tokyo campus in Setagaya-ku, the Faculty of Agriculture at the Atsugi campus in Kanagawa and the Faculty of Bio-industry at the Okhotsk campus in Hokkaido. Tokyo NODAI aims to advance agriculture and to support agriculture’s related industries through its programs focusing on core areas of Agronomy, Life Science, Environmental Science, and Bio-industry Science.
The institution has been an Associate Member of the UC since 2006 and has actively participated by hosting the 30th Executive Board Meeting in 2017 and in accommodating participants from the UC member institutions for scholarships and activities, as well as sending Tokyo NODAI delegates to UC events.