Aspire UGRA 7/12-16&Genève study tour 11/17-24
Yusuke Yonezawa
2016.02.03

0.Content
1. Aspire UGRA
1.1 About Aspire UGRA
1.2 Activity
1.3 Findings
2. Genève study tour
2.1 About Genève study tour
2.2 Activity
2.3 Findings

1.1 About Aspire Undergraduate Research Academy
Purpose of Aspire UGRA

Enrichment program for undergraduate students who are conducting research
projects in the areas of energy and sustainability at the five ASPIRE League
member universities.

A total of 23 students participated in UGRA, including three students from HKUST,and five students each from KAIST, Tokyo Tech, Tsinghua and NTU

1.2 Activity

Thursday, 16 July 2015
08:00-09:00

Breakfast & check out

12:00

Departure1.2 Activity
Necessary preparation before UGRA
 Every student must hold 10 minutes research presentation and 5 minutes Q &A
-To progress my research to the extent I can show brief results-To make presentation understandable for student who don’t study the field I prepared the presentation about “Mechanism of bulk cargo containerization”

1.2 Activity
Research presentation by students
 Each of 23 student need to dopresentation about their own researchwithin 10 minites
 There are various kinds of topic
 All research is related to sustainable
environment society1.2 Activity
REC’s Solar panel Plant visit

 Researcher at REC lectured on solar panel-Solar panel is rather inefficient in the areawith extremely high temperature To visit solar panel factory-Every process is automated-Human work is just final check of solar panel

1.2 Activity
Sightseeing1.2 Activity
Social1.3 Findings
To be highly inspired by students from other countries
through student presentations and conversation with them
-The same age foreign students work so hard in engineering field-They are also heavily interested in politics, economy and other social issue

 To understand difficulty in explaining your research to people who don’t
study the field through student presentation-To try not to use terminology in explanation-To confirm whether or not audience can catch up with the explanation

2.1 About Genève Study Tour
Purpose of Geneve Study Tour-To understand the detail function of each organization and necessary
ability to work for UN through discussion with people who are actuallyworking for UN

12 people from Tokyo university of foreign studies, 2 people each from
Kyoto, Ochanomizu and Nagoya university, 1 people each from
Hitotsubashi, Titech, Kobe, Osaka, Tohoku and Seishin women university
participated in this program.

2.2 Activity
Friday, 20 Nov 2015

Tuesday, 17 Nov 2015
午前

午後

9:00~11:00
11:30~14:30
14:50~16:10
午後
16:30~18:00
午前

12:00

Departure

18:00

Arrival

19:00

Check inWednesday, 18 Nov 2015

午前

午後

9:00~10:00

ITU

10:30~12:30

ICRC/IFRC

12:45~13:30

国連事務局

15:30~16:30

UNOCHA
午後Thursday, 19 Nov 2015
午前

午後

9:00~11:00

WMO

11:30~14:30

ILO

14:50~16:10

UNAIDS/WHO

16:30~18:00

午前IMO

9:00~11:00
16:00
18:00

日本代表部
WTO
UNHCR
WIPO
Saturday, 21 Nov 2015
Sightseeing, Genève
Sunday, 22 Nov 2015
Sightseeing, Annecy
Monday, 23 Nov 2015
OHCHR
Check out
Departure
Tuesday, 24 Nov 2015

午前

午後

17:00

Arrival2.2 Activity
Necessary preparation
 Every student take charge of one or two UN organizations-To study the basic function of the organization and make a document-To summarize questions we ask at discussion with UN worker-To facilitate the discussion
 I took charge of International Labor Organization-ILO is the organization for labor right-ILO tries to eradicate child labor, sweat shop, etc.

2.2 Activity
Discussion with UN worker
 1-2hour for each organization
 First half is the presentation given byUN workers

 Latter half is the discussion with them

2.2 Activity
Sightseeing

2.2 Activity
Social2.3 Finding To be highly inspired by students from other university-They are so eager for working for UN in the future-They major in language, law, culture ... very different from engineering To understand the necessary ability to work for the UN-Language ability as prerequisite and deep knowledge in specific academic field-Flexibility to adapt to various kinds of environment
 To realize the important act in discussion-Meaningful story isn’t voluntarily given, we need to ask them to tell