On Friday, August 22, 2025, Dr. Leda Florinda Hugo, President, and Dr. Fred Charles Nelson, Vice President, of Lulio University, an inter-university academic exchange partner in the Republic of Mozambique, visited Ehime University.
First, President Hugo and his team visited the Disaster Information Research Center, where they were guided by Director Naoki Kinoshita and Associate Professor Kohei Ono to tour the facilities of the Natural Hazards Research Division.
Next, the group visited the Institute for International Relations, where they exchanged views on academic and student exchange between the two universities with Director and Vice President Kazuhiro Mitsunobu (International Relations), Special Assistant to the President Osamu Kobayashi (International Relations), Associate Professor Hideyuki Kurita, and others.
The group then moved to the Tarumi Campus (Faculty of Agriculture), where Associate Professor Naomichi Fujiuchi led the group on a tour of the plant factory facilities at the Advanced Agricultural R&D Center. At the Faculty of Agriculture, Associate Professor Fujiuchi also explained about his research on plant factories and greenhouses.
The delegation then paid a courtesy call on President Hiroshige Nishina at the headquarters administration building and met with Director and Vice President Mitsunobu, Special Assistant to the President Kobayashi, Associate Professor Kurita, and Ms. Veronica A.A. Fernando, a doctoral student at the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences and a lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Lúrio University. During the meeting, President Hugo expressed his request for degree and academic training for young faculty members at Lurio University, as well as the implementation of a short-term student exchange program. Vice President Nelson, who will complete his doctoral program at Ehime University’s Graduate School of Science and Engineering in 2008, expressed his desire to develop the exchange between his alma mater, Ehime University, and Lurio University to a new level.
It is hoped that this visit will be an opportunity to promote exchanges and cooperation between IPB University and Ehime University.
＜Center for Disaster Information and Research, Center for Advanced Agricultural Research and Development, Faculty of Agriculture, Institute for International Relations