**************************************************************IISEE Newsletter No.14
20 April 2007**************************************************************+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Contents +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1. Candidate countries for next annual courses have decided!
2. The International Conference for CISMID 20th Anniversary
3. Dr. Laura Kong lectured on "Education of tsunami disaster reduction"++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=====================================================================[1] Candidate countries for next annual courses have decided!
The next IISEE one-year training courses will start this September. These courses are"Seismology,EarthquakeEngineeringandDisasterMitigation(JICACourseNo.:J-07-00797) and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation (JICA Course No.:J-07-04051). Thecandidate countries are as follows:(for Seismology, Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Mitigation course)
Bangladesh

ChinaEl Salvador

FijiIndia

Indonesia

JordanKazakhstan

Kyrgyz RepublicMozambique

Myanmar

Nepal

Nicaragua

Pakistan

PeruSamoa

Saudi Arabia

Sri Lanka

ThailandTurkeyUzbekistan

VietnamIndonesia

Malaysia(for Tsunami Disaster Mitigation course)
Bangladesh

India

ThailandThe JICA's General Information has been distributed to above candidate countries. Since
Required Documents should be submitted to JICA Office (or the Embassy of Japan) byJune 15, 2007, please start your action immediately. We are looking forward to receiving
many applications from your institutions.
Please contact JICA Overseas Offices
http://www.jica.go.jp/english/contact/overseas.html

Nobuo HURUKAWADirector, IISEE----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[2] The International Conference for CISMID 20th Anniversary
The Japan Peru Center for Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Mitigation (CISMID) in
Peru is organizing the International Conference on Earthquake Engineering to celebrate
the 20th anniversary of CISMID. The detail information is available in the following URL:
http://www.cismid-uni.org/anuncio_e.htm
Taiki SAITO
Chief Research Engineer, IISEE----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[3] Dr. Laura Kong lectured on "Education of tsunami disaster reduction"
Cooperation between IISEE and UNESCO resumed last year after an interval of 10 years.
As a part of this cooperation, UNESCO decided to dispatch lecturers to the Tsunami
Course. On April 6, 2007, Dr. Laura Kong, a UNESCO lecturer, gave a lecture on

"Education of tsunami disaster reduction" to participants from the Tsunami Course andsome participants from the Seismology Course. Dr. Kong is a director of the International
Tsunami Information Center (ITIC, http://ioc3.unesco.org/itic/ ), the Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. She leads the world's tsunami awarenessprogram. She introduced the Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS) andthe Hawaii State Regional Tsunami Warning System. She also introduced an education,outreach, awareness, and public policy for tsunami disaster mitigation and educational
materials such as "Tsunami Teacher".

Bunichiro SHIBAZAKI
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