From Director

The Education Program for Global Leaders in Advanced Engineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences (GL Education Program) was established at Kyoto University for five years from fiscal 2008. It is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, in order to nurture researchers and technocrat who can act as good leaders at corporations, governments and international institutions. In this program, researchers who have just acquired their doctorate (including postdoctoral researchers) and graduate students who are in a doctoral course and have almost completed research to acquire a doctorate are selected and developed into leaders to play an important role internationally in the advanced technology area by providing a one-year education and training period.

To manage the Education Program, the GL Education Unit was established at Kyoto University under the close collaboration between Graduate School of Engineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences. This Program provides the students of this program?three education programs: industry-government-university (IGU) cooperative school, interactive education-type joint research, and practical English training. Please support and join in the activities of the GL Education Program and Unit.