Direct to EXPO 2025
The Polish-Japanese Academic Collaboration Platform is designed to usher collaboration between the University of Warsaw and Japanese academic and educational institutions while fostering a multidisciplinary approach to the challenges of the contemporary world, coherent with the goals of sustainable development and the social responsibility of educational institutions. The initiative to create this platform emerged during preparations for realization of the Japanese Studies Department’s project conducted along wit the “Direct to EXPO 2025” program of the National Agency for Academic Exchange.
続きを読むEXPO 2025, Osaka, Kansai
The issues of sustainable development, such as inhibiting climate change or overall field of security, are closely related to the motto of the Expo 2025 Osaka: Designing Future Society for Our Lives.
続きを読むPartnership
The Japanese Studies initiative “University of Warsaw toward the Challenges of the Modern World. Polish-Japanese Partnership for Security and Sustainable Development” organized for the Expo 2025 Osaka gathered academic researchers from a wide variety of fields such as: humanities, sociology, geophysics, hydrology, law and administration, economics, political science, international studies and culture studies.
続きを読むTradition
Academic and educational collaboration between Poland and Japan at the University of Warsaw has a tradition spanning over a hundred years. The first Japanese language course was inaugurated in the year 1919 in the Philosophy Department. The research into Japanese culture began to intensify in the 1950s’ in the Oriental Institute of the Philology Department. Recently it is conducted mainly at the Japanese Studies Department at the Faculty of Oriental Studies.
続きを読むAcademic cooperation agreements
The first agreement for direct Polish-Japanese academic cooperation was signed in 1974 between the University of Warsaw and the University of Tokyo. In the following years the collaboration expanded to such Japanese universities as Gakushuin, Kobe, Kogakkan, Kumamoto, Nagoya, Ochanomizu, Rikkyo, Saitama, Shinshu, Showa Joshi, Tohoku, and Tsukuba.
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