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1. Selection of Good Practices
The European Commission announced in the spring of 2009 that they have selected AUSMIP, which is a program that has been run by eight schools from seven universities in Japan and Europe including the Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo, as one of the good practices. This honorable mention was given to eight excellent projects among eighty-eight projects for vocational training or higher education initiated by the countries of the European Union with other foreign advanced countries, and financially supported by the European Commission. Of the cooperation programs between Japan and the EU, AUSMIP was the only program identified as a good practice.
2. What is AUSMIP
AUSMIP spells out the initials of ‘EU-Japan: Architecture and Urbanism Student Mobility International Program.’ As its name shows, AUSMIP is a students exchange program for research and training on architecture and urbanism.
It consists of the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo as the lead university on the Japan side, the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo, the Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies at Kyushu University, the Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University, and the Graduate School of Horticulture at Chiba University from Japan, as well as the Ecole Nationale Superieure D’Architecture De Paris La Villette (ENSAPLV) as the lead university on the European side, WENK, St.-Lucas Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade Tecnica De Lisboa and Technische Universitat Munchen from Europe. Master course level students are selected and sent to study for six to nine months at the European or Japanese schools. The student can get credits at the foreign schools, which may be registered at his/her home schools. Different from conventional study abroad programs, AUSMIP is characterized firstly by its treatment of the study abroad as a part of the regular curriculum at the home school and secondly by the reciprocity and mutuality of the participating schools and thirdly by the involvement of foreign students in the classes.
Professor Dr. Syuichi Matsumura, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Professor Dr. Hidetoshi Ohno, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo
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