International Activities

Academic Exchange Agreements

NAIST undertakes international exchange programs with various overseas universities and institutions for research and education. These programs include research collaborations, joint symposia, guest lectures, sharing of academic information and research materials, and exchanges of faculty and students. NAIST has concluded 23 exchange agreements with overseas universities（14 for institution-level agreements and 15 for school/department-level agreements）in a bid to strengthen international relationships and to encourage further academic exchanges.

Academic Exchange Agreements (as of October 1, 2009)

Academic Exchange Agreementslist (PDFfile 79kB)

Graduate School	Counterpart	Country	Term		Memorundum of Student Exchange
All Schools	University of California, Davis	USA	2003.04.15	2011.04.14	Only Biological Sciences
	University of Maryland, College Park	USA	2004.12.13	2009.12.12	V*
	University of Joensuu	Finland	2005.03.11	2010.03.10	V
	Gadjah Mada University	Indonesia	2005.04.01	2010.03.31	V
	Mahidol University	Thailand	2005.04.01	2010.03.31	V
	Ege University	Turkey	2005.12.16	2010.12.15	V
	Abo Akademi University	Finland	2006.06.02	2011.06.01	V
	Bogor Agricultural University	Indonesia	2007.07.18	2012.07.17	V
	Universite catholique de Louvain	Belgium	2007.09.01	2012.08.31	Only Information Science
	University Paul Sabatier	France	2007.11.13	2012.11.12	V
	Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology	Korea	2008.03.10	2013.03.09
	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Korea	2008.03.10	2013.03.09	V
	University of Poitiers	France	2008.03.31	2013.03.30	V
	Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	2008.05.29	2013.05.28
	Ecole Polytechnique	France	2008.07.16	2013.07.15	V
	Tianjin University of Technology	Russia	2008.11.12	2013.11.11	V
	Ateneo de Manila University	Philippines	2008.12.08	2013.12.07	V
	The St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University	Thailand	2008.12.08	2013.12.07	V
	Universiti Sains Malaysia	Malaysia	2009.02.23	2014.02.23	V
	Chulalongkorn University	Indonesia	2009.03.09	2014.03.08	V
	University of Malaya	Malaysia	2009.03.16	2014.03.16	V
	Universitas Indonesia	Indonesia	2009.04.01	2014.03.31	V
	Universiti Putra Malaysia	Malaysia	2009.04.12	2014.04.20	V
Information Science	Department of Information Processing Science, Faculty of Science, University of Oulu	Finland	2000.08.14	2010.08.13	V
	College of Engineering, University of Hawaii	USA	2007.01.26	2012.01.25
	School of Computer Science And Engineering & School Of Software, University Of Electronic Science And Technology of China	China	2009.03.11	2014.03.10	V
Biological Sciences	Biotechnology Institute, University of Minnesota	USA	1997.04.01	2012.03.31
	School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University	Korea	2008.05.26	2013.05.25	V
	Institute of Biotechnology Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology	Vietnam	2009.05.22	2014.05.21	V
Materials Science	Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute Science and Technology	Korea	2001.04.12	2011.04.11	V
	Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, University of Latvia	Latvia	2002.02.28	2012.02.27	V
	Faculty of Science, University of Zurich	Switzerland	2002.06.10	2012.06.09	V
	Ph.D. School in Physics, University of Debrecen	Hungary	2002.09.23	2012.09.22	V
	Department of Engineering RainMain University of Applied Sciences	Germany	2008.11.05	2013.11.04	V
	Fuculty of Science, Leiden University	Netherland	2009.03.16	2014.03.15	V
	College of Science, National Chiao Tung University	Taiwan	2009.03.20	2014.03.19	V
	College of Chemistry, Liaoning University	China	2009.07.03	2014.07.02	V
Other	MIT－Japan　Program	USA	2009.03.16		V

*　The article of Student Exchange is included in the agreement.

*　Department of Engineering University of Applied Sciences Wiesbaden is change of name to Department of Engineering Uneversity of Applied Sciences(September 1, 2009~).