This is a discussion between Dr. Yoshinori Fukubayashi (University of Miyazaki) and Dr. Worku Asratie Wubet, Director of Road Research Center, Ethiopia Roads Administration. The moderator is Prof. Masayoshi Shigeta (Kyoto University).This installment is the third of three. Discussion on road construction in the project model site (Part 3) WORKU×FUKUBAYASHI [Moderator: SHIGETA] After the URRAP […]
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The workshop will be held online on Friday, 21st June, 2024(16:30 to 19:20 JST, 10:30 to 13:20 EAT). Three Ethiopian students who have finished their doctoral studies at Kyoto University and one Ethiopian student who has finished his doctoral studies at Ehime University will present their research results online from […]
This is a discussion between Dr. Yoshinori Fukubayashi (University of Miyazaki) and Dr. Worku Asratie Wubet, Director of Road Research Center, Ethiopia Roads Administration. The moderator is Prof. Masayoshi Shigeta (Kyoto University).This installment is the second of three. Discussion on road construction in the project model site (Part 2) WORKU×FUKUBAYASHI [Moderator: SHIGETA] “The Real Meaning […]
This is a discussion between Dr. Yoshinori Fukubayashi (University of Miyazaki) and Dr. Worku Asratie Wubet, Director of Road Research Center, Ethiopia Roads Administration, who was in Kyoto for a MNGD Short-term Training Program in FY2023. The moderator is Prof. Masayoshi Shigeta (Kyoto University).This installment is the first of three. […]
Messages were sent from Prof. Kimura, the Project leader of the MNGD project, which is in its final year, and Dr. Fitsum, the leader of the Ethiopian side. The video is posted on the Message from principal investigator page.A short version of Dr. Fitsum’s video is also available. →MNGD Project […]
A research meeting was held at University of Miyazaki on May 27th. Prof. Kimura, the leader of each component, major researchers, and Prof. Asaeda, who is the research supervisor of our project, and Mr. Furukawa from JST. In the morning, activity reports on each subject were presented, and the participants […]
The MNGD project has produced calendars (with both Western and Ethiopian calendars) illustrating its activities.The illustrations from September 2022 to August 2024 are now available as an e-picture book. It can be viewed here. There is also the fixed link in ‘Achievements’.
In March 2024, Prof. Kamei (University of Miyazaki) and Dr. Iwai (Kyoto University) were invited to give a public lecture at Addis Ababa Science and Technology University (AASTU). Mr. Berachow (Lecturer, AASTU) who visited Japan for short-term training last year presented the progress and results of experiments conducted in the […]
In March 2024, three Japanese professors, Prof. Kamei (University of Miyazaki), Dr. Fukubayashi (University of Miyazaki), and Dr. Iwai (Kyoto University), visited the soil laboratory at Addis Ababa Science and Technology University. They checked the progress of experiments with Ethiopian researchers and conducted experiments. In 2019 when the MNGD project […]
A Japanese expert from a non-profit organization called “Community Road Empowerment (CORE)” visited the project site in Jinka, southern Ethiopia in December 2023 and March 2024. He had meetings with local engineers and local residents to propose how to implement low-volume road construction in the areas with black cotton soil, […]
On Thursday, February 8, 2024, Dr. Dereje Engida, the President of Addis Ababa Science and Technology University (AASTU) which is one of the counterpart institutions of SATREPS-MNGD project visited Kyoto University with the following five scholars from Ethiopia. The visit was arranged through the invitation by JICA Ethiopia Office, At […]
We interviewed Dr. Iwai (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University), who supervised the experiments for the MNGD Program FY2023 short-term training program.