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Trainees from three Southern African countries participate in a JOGMEC-commissioned training course.(August 2011)

A scene from a lecture

 

Trainees visiting one of the laboratories

 

Prof. Mizuta, Director of ICREMER, giving an explanation to the trainees

 

Akita University, in response to a request from Japan Oil Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), held a three-day training course from August 23 to 25, 2011, in the framework of their agreement to promote comprehensive partnership and cooperation which was signed this year.
A total of eleven trainees, consisting of five each from Tanzania and Malawi and one from Mozambique, participated in the course at Akita University. During the course of August 23 and 24, they had a module on remote sensing technology with GPS lecture given by Yoichi Kageyama, Associate Professor of Faculty of Engineering and Resource Science, and also lectures on various topics of resource studies in general, such as geology and exploration, resource development, resource processing, smelting and refining, and resource economics, which were given by Prof. Toshio Mizuta, Director of ICREMER and other teaching staff members at the Center. On August 25, they participated in a field trip led by Prof. Mizuta to visit an outcrop connected to the Kuroko deposits which are located around Kosaka town in Akita prefecture to conduct their fieldwork.
Akita University signed the agreement with JOGMEC on April 13, 2011, aiming to contribute not only to the progress of research, investigation, education and technology development in the resource-related sector but also to the assurance of energy and mineral resource availability for Japan, by proactively promoting their cooperation in broad areas such as joint researches and investigations, human resources exchanges and development, utilization of facilities and information sharing.
JOGMEC has Geologic Remote Sensing Centre in Botswana and operates an educational program for the resource sector professionals and practitioners in Southern African countries, offering courses not only in Botswana but also, once a year, in Japan.
The group of trainees, after receiving the course at Akita University, will visit the Kosaka Smelting and Refinery, a material recycling facility and one of Toyota’s vehicle manufacturing plants.