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CENTER FOR GLOBAL INITIATIVES

Established in April 2021 to enhance our global outreach activities by making a wide variety of plans related to academic exchanges in collaboration with the other divisions of the university.

Organizational chart of the Center for Global Initiatives
(reorganized in April 2021)

  • Planning Unit

    FACULTY

    • Plans new initiatives a roadmap for strategic internationalization
    • Collects, analyzes, and shares information on the status and trends of global higher education
    • Promotes bilateral and multilateral collaboration with overseas universities and consortia (such as APRU, U7+, AEARU)
    • Enhances university-wide collaboration for strategic international student recruitment

    FACULTY

  • Overseas Centers

    FACULTY

    • Promotes international joint research
    • Promotes student exchanges
    • Builds and deepens international academic exchange networks
    • Promotes international PR activities

    FACULTY

  • Global Strategy Unit

    FACULTY

    • Promotes world-leading research and international joint research
    • Collaborates with Global Knowledge Partners (GKP)
    • Plans and implements international PR activities
    • Gathers and shares information about the status of inter-university and inter-faculty agreements

    FACULTY

  • Campus Innovation Unit

    FACULTY

    • Establishes and manages overseas campuses including OU ASEAN Campuses
    • Promotes student inbound and outbound programs utilizing overseas campuses
    • Supports international industry-academia-government research collaborations in partnership with international organizations
    • Cultivates high-level talent that contributes to resolving local issues
    • Collaborates with other departments related to advanced global literacy education

    FACULTY

  • Student Mobility Unit

    FACULTY

    • Strategically admits talented international students
    • Implements study abroad fairs in collaboration with ​other departments and graduate schools
    • Implements short-term study abroad programs to cultivate student internationality
    • Implements student exchange programs that corresponds to the new normal during and after the COVID-19

    FACULTY

  • Contact

    • International Affairs Division, Department of International Affairs
    • Tel: 06-6877-5111
    • Email: global-ou@ml.office.osaka-u.ac.jp