Lector of VGTU Faculty of Fundamental Sciences Department of Engineering Graphics Arvydas Rimkus visited Kobe University in Japan with Erasmus staff teaching mobility on May 23-27. It was the first and very successful teaching mobility visit implemented under global Erasmus+ programme. The programme provides excellent cooperation opportunities for academic staff with colleagues from non-European higher education institutions.

 

During his visit Arvydas Rimkus has extended the 8 year long cooperation between VGTU Department of Engineering Graphics and Kobe University Graduate School of Engineering and Graduate School of Human Development and Environment. Closer cooperation between the institutions started in 2015 when the interinstitutional agreement was signed in assistance with Kobe University professor Hirotakai Suzuki.

 

Arvydas shared his engineering systems application knowledge with the students of Kobe University, shared student mobility opportunities at VGTU and participated in a research seminar.

 

VGTU lector had meetings with Kobe University Vice-rector prof. Inoue Noriyuki, Vice-dean of Engineering Graduate School, Head of Architecture Department Sakagami Kimihiro, Vice-dean of Graduate School of Human Development and Environment Odaka Naoki and Head of Engineering Graphics Department Assoc. Prof. Ohnishi Kazuyoshi. Potential summer school for Kobe University students in Vilnius has been discussed. It is very likely that VGTU will host the first summer school students from Japan in summer of 2017.

 

In continuation of VGTU and Kobe University cooperation, Erasmus+ visit of prof. Hirotaka Suzuki is planned at VGTU in October 2016. Professor is planning to give lectures to VGTU students and discuss further cooperation and mobility issues with the university management.

 

Finally A. Rimkus presented the cooperation opportunities with VGTU at the University of Tokyo, discussed academic cooperation with the president of Japan Society for Graphic Science, Professor of Tokyo University Yasushi Yamaguchi. The visit was a beginning of a potential partnership between Tokyo University and Vilnius Gediminas Technical University extending the worldwide network of VGTU academic cooperation and providing exciting opportunities to the students of both universities.