Announcement of Student Exchange Support Program
Program Outline
Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) offers scholarship for qualified international students who are accepted by a Japanese university under a student exchange agreement or other student exchange arrangement on a short-term basis for one year between Japanese university and their home higher educational institution outside Japan.
Details of program
The title of program is “The education and research leader upbringing program to environment preservation through Agri-Food Linkage”. The students enroll as undergraduate special auditors or graduate special auditors and carry out research including laboratory work and field work under the guidance of a supervisor at Faculty of Agriculture, Yamagata University. Title of research is determined after discussion with the supervisor. The students also study some subjects such as seminar, intensive scientific English and Japanese language. Credit exchange between two universities is available. Tutors are assigned to each student for the purpose of giving special help outside of the classroom in order to promote his/her studies and research activities.
Scholarship
Term: From November 2016 to August 2017 (10 months in total).
Source of Scholarship: Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO).
Monthly stipend: ¥80,000 x 10 months
Eligibility for Application
The applicant must satisfy following conditions:
- Applicants must hold the nationality of Republic of Indonesia.
- We do not accept students who will graduate from Gadjah Mada University during the stay in Japan (November 2016 to August 2017).
Application Overview
Japanese universities submit their yearly student exchange plans to JASSO. According to the yearly plan, JASSO will allocate the quota of scholarships to each Japanese university. Within this quota, Japanese universities will recommend their exchange students to JASSO. The student will be notified of the screening results through the Japanese host university. Recommendations will not be accepted from universities without any quota of scholarships. All applications must be processed through Japanese universities. Direct applications from overseas universities or students will not be accepted. Application deadlines for students will differ at each university. The applicant must contact the university to confirm the application schedule and the necessary documents.
Detailed Application Process
This schedule is subject to change.
1 July 2016
Announcement of program to Universitas Gadjah Mada
29 July 2016（IMPORTANT‼）
Deadline of application to Yamagata University
Please see the list of supervisors for this program and select one supervisor.
Recruitment of applicants and submission of:
(1) CV
(2) Grade Transcript of UGM (Mater course student needs to submit both grade transcript of undergraduate and grade transcript of mater course)
(3) Information of Applicants for 2016.
Grade Transcript of UGM must be written in English. Academic year and semester of each subject need to be shown in Grade Transcript or in additional note.
Please send the above mentioned three documents as PDF to Academic and Student Services (Gakumu) officer (nogaku@jm.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp), a stuff of international exchange division, until 29 July 2016.
For application kit, see Dr. Roto, the Chemistry M.Sc. Program Chair of UGM