{"id":220,"date":"2026-02-09T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/?p=220"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T05:14:44","slug":"2026020904_en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/eng\/2026020904_en\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickoff Meeting Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a kickoff meeting for the MEXT Inter-University Exchange Project (Global South Countries: African Countries), we will invite partner universities and institutions of thie project to hold lectures and panel discussions centered on the program\u2019s theme: \u201cDeveloping Leaders Who Contribute to Solving Global Environmental Challenges through International Collaboration.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This event will serve as an opportunity to deepen mutual understanding, share a common sense of purpose, and, by opening it to the public, introduce to participants some new initiatives in collaboration with international organizations, based on past achievements in education and research with Africa at Sophia University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>FY2025 MEXT Inter-University Exchange Project Kickoff Meeting<\/strong><br><strong>The Japan\u2013Africa Nexus: Co-Building a Sustainable Global Future Together<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><th><strong>Date &amp; Time<\/strong><\/th><td>February 19, 2026, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:20 p.m.<\/td><\/tr><tr><th><strong>Venue<\/strong><\/th><td>Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus, Building No. 2, 17th Floor<br><em>(Hybrid format: in-person and online)<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><th><strong>Advance Registration<\/strong><\/th><td>Those wishing to participate are kindly requested to register in advance via the links below.<br><strong>In-person:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/eipro.jp\/sophia\/events\/view\/AIC20260219\">https:\/\/eipro.jp\/sophia\/events\/view\/AIC20260219<br><\/a><strong>Online:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/eipro.jp\/sophia\/events\/view\/AIC20260219_OL\">https:\/\/eipro.jp\/sophia\/events\/view\/AIC20260219_OL<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We look forward to your participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/wp-content\/themes\/safics\/assets\/pdf\/sophia-kick-off-meeting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">For more details, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kickoff meeting for the MEXT Inter-University Exchange Project (Global South Countries: African Countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"lang":"eng","translations":{"eng":220,"jpn":71,"fr":222},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cged.sophia.ac.jp\/safics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}