チェコ共和国・パルドゥビッツェ大学 経済・マネジメント学部副学部長 ヤン・チャペック博士 祝辞
Vice Dean for Research Faculty of Economics and Administration,
University of Pardubice, Professor Dr. Jan Capek
The Celebration of KCG's 45th Anniversary and KCGI's 5th Anniversary
Dear President Hasegawa, distinguished guests, dear students, ladies and gentleman,
It is my great pleasure to address this audience in Kyoto on the occasion of the celebration of the Kyoto Computer Gakuin's (KCG) 45th Anniversary and the Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics (KCGI) 5th Anniversary.
Recently, in May this year, the Memorandum of Understanding between University of Pardubice and the KCG Group was signed. I am persuaded that both institutions welcome the establishment of any new contact with overseas partners that might be helpful to their students, teachers and researchers to acquire new knowledge or increase their mobility across the world.
From the historical point of view both our institutions are relatively young, the oldest part of our University celebrated its 50th anniversary in year 2000, and now we are here in the occasion of the celebration of KCG's 45th Anniversary and KCGI's 5th Anniversary, especially when compared with long lasting academic institutions that can be found in Japan or Central Europe. However both institutions are dynamic in their development and quite ambitious to follow the main mission in the field of higher education as well as to bring some innovative trends to education process. Such trends were visible even in May of this year during the “on-line” signing ceremony of Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Pardubice and Kyoto Computer Gakuin. This kind of event was not so frequently used in academic environment, at least as far as I know.
In spite of the fact that both institutions comes from different roots:
The Kyoto Computer Gakuin (KCG) is Japan's first private computer educational institution in Japan founded in 1963 by Shigeo and Yasuko Hasegawa. In 2004, the Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics (KCGI) was established based on the pioneering tradition and achievements of KCG with the aim of fostering highly-skilled IT specialists and professionals.
The University of Pardubice is public institution consists of seven faculties founded in the year 1950 and till 1991 was served as one faculty institution. The great development was after the year 1991 when the university began expanding till today’s state.
The both institutions play significant role within the educational and research field not only in both countries, but also joins the ranks of world-class institutions.
Dear President Hasegawa, distinguished guests, dear students, ladies and gentleman, I wish you, much successes for all your educational and research endeavors.