April 4, 2014
Graduate School of Media and Governance: Master's and Doctoral Programs
Call for Research Assistant (RA) Applications for the "Global Environmental System Leaders Program"
We are now accepting applications for Research Assistants (RAs) for the "Global Environmental System Leaders Program (GESL)" (Master's and Doctoral Programs).
We are recruiting Research Assistants (RAs) for this program from students enrolling in the Master's and Doctoral Programs of the Graduate School of Media and Governance in April 2014, according to the schedule below.
<RA Recruitment and Selection Schedule>
April 9 (Wed) 13:00 Document submission deadline (Please be punctual)
Required documents: (Form 2) Research Achievements.zip , (Form 3) CV.zip
Forms can be downloaded from http://gesl.sfc.keio.ac.jp/information/gesl_guide_2013/.
[Submission Method: Email the forms in PDF format to the GESL Office at gesl-office@sfc.keio.ac.jp]
*The seal or signature of your academic advisor on the forms can be substituted by including your academic advisor's email address in the CC field of the submission email.
April 10 (Thu)
Notification of document screening results
April 11 (Fri) 13:00-15:00 Interviews
*Interview results will be announced by email by April 18 (Fri).
- Course Overview -
The "Global Environmental System Leaders Program," jointly offered by the Graduate School of Media and Governance and the Graduate School of Science and Technology at Keio University, brings together top-tier faculty and students from Japan and abroad. With participation from industry, academia, and government, we have established and are developing an integrated Master's and Doctoral degree program of world-class, guaranteed quality that transcends the boundaries of specialized fields. This program aims to guide outstanding students to become globally active leaders equipped with a broad perspective and originality.
The GESL program is a new graduate course designed to train "Global Environmental System Leaders." These leaders will possess the awareness, knowledge, and skills to lead the realization of sustainable maintenance, restoration, and improvement of the global environment, and will be capable of designing and building technological and social systems on a global scale.
The GESL program conducts education and research with the following three distinctive features .
● Feature 1 International Training Subjects : Master's students (for three months) and doctoral students (for six months) can study abroad at partner and affiliated institutions (such as the University of Cambridge, Princeton University, Tampere University of Technology, etc.). This allows them to cultivate the research and practical skills needed to lead the realization of global environmental systems in an international setting. Travel and living expenses will be supported for the study abroad period.
● Feature 2 International Industry-Academia- NPO Collaborative Research Supervision System : We organize an International Industry-Academia-NPO Collaborative Research Supervision System composed of faculty from the Graduate School of Science and Technology and the Graduate School of Media and Governance, researchers from overseas partner institutions, and staff from internship host companies serving as external examiners. By using remote collaboration systems with overseas partners, students can receive research supervision that is consistently international and maintains contact points with industry.
● Feature 3 RA System : This is a system designed to foster future young researchers and promote their career development. Approximately 80% of students who enroll in our graduate schools and choose the GESL program will be hired as RAs. About half of these RAs are selected from applicants who applied for the RA position during the entrance examination application process, with results announced at the time of admission notification. Additional recruitment will also take place after enrollment.
Posted by: Global Environmental System Leaders Program (GESL) Office