The School of Information Sciences and Tokyo Tech sign a cooperation agreement

The Dean of the School of Information Sciences, Professor Kari-Jouko Räihä (left ) and Dean Junichi Iijima signed the cooperation agreement at the University of Tampere on 3 December 2012. Research Director Jarmo Viteli was also present. (Photograph: Ville Kankainen).

The School of Information Sciences at the University of Tampere has signed a cooperation agreement with the Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology at the Japanese Tokyo Institute of Technology. The agreement was signed in Tampere on Monday 3 December 2012.

The preliminary agreement includes joint research projects and publications and staff and student exchange.

Professor, Dean Junichi Iijima from Japan came to sign the agreement. Dean Iijima said that Finland’s success in the PISA rankings (OECD Programme for International Student Assessment) has impressed the Japanese. Nokia and the Finnish technology industry are also well known in Japan.

The Dean of the School of Information Sciences, Professor Kari-Jouko Räihä said that personal contacts already exist between the staff at the School of Information Sciences and Tokyo Tech.

“The cooperation agreement expands these contacts. There will be research visits and the universities are looking into the possibility of starting joint research projects,” Professor Räihä says.

The Tokyo Institute of Technology was established in 1881 and today it is located on three campuses. Its Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology is the Japanese partner in the agreement. In Finland the Graduate School is especially interested in the opportunities ICT offers in education.

For more information please contact:
Jarmo Viteli
Research Director
tel. 0500 731 237
jarmo.viteli@uta.fi

School of Information Sciences SIS

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