JICA Project

Project for Enhancement of Engineering Higher Education in Myanmar

The SixERS ; Six National Universities International Education, Research System has deployed the “Project for Enhancement of Engineering Higher Education in Myanmar” under the assistance of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) since October, 2013.

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar has been shifted from military regime to democracy in 2011. However, due to the long military regime, most university education had not been carried out.
As a result, laboratory equipment deteriorated as experienced teaching staff retired, leaving research and education environment in Myanmar deteriorated rapidly.

On the project, professors from JSUs conduct seminars and simulate lectures locally in order to improve the educational ability and research capability of Myanmar engineering faculty members who bear to educate university students.
JSUs also invite Myanmar engineering faculty members to Japanese universities to allow them to experience the laboratory management, lectures, and actual experiments.
The project also has been supplying engineering equipment to local in order to conduct research exercises satisfactory.

Since the commencement of the project, we have conducted Myanmar staff training twice a year, and operational support of international conference as well as short stay training in Japan annually.
Through these exchange programs, the project aims to contribute to improving the quality of engineering education to train the engineering personnel who have a key role in the infrastructure development, industrial development of Myanmar country in the near future.

Furthermore, the project has been officially extended to March 2020 for the continuous support of Yangon Technological University and Mandalay Technological University.

※SixERS; Six National Universities International Education, Research System

The PEME is a technical cooperation project which aims at enhancement of capacities in research, clinical skills and education of the medical universities in Myanmar. It is implemented in close collaboration between the Department of Human Resources for Health (DHRH) of the Ministry of Health and Sports and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) with technical supports by the Medical Operating Committee of Six National Universities Network (MED-SUN) in Japan.

Photo: The first Conference of the SUN, Japan and the Ministry of Health (MOH), Myanmar

Project Background

Following the launch of “The Project for Enhancement of Engineering Higher Education in Myanmar” by the Six National Universities Network (SUN: Chiba, Niigata, Kanazawa, Okayama, Nagasaki, and Kumamoto) in October 2013, the first Conference of the SUN and the Ministry of Health (MOH), Myanmar was held in Tokyo to discuss medical collaboration between the two countries, and the Medical Operating Committee of SUN (Med-SUN) was established. After several meetings with the concerned bodies and field research visits by Japanese specialists over a year, “The Project for Enhancement of Medical Education (PEME)” was finally launched with the support by JICA in April 2015.

Target Fields of PEME

A cumulative total of 60 medical doctors and 8 radiologists will be well trained in either research or clinical practice.

• Basic Medicine (Long-term Training) : A total of 12 Ph.D Candidates are in 6 areas of Ph.D programs of six universities (two Ph.D candidates at each university)
• Clinical Medicine (Short-term Training): A total of 12 doctors and 2 radiological technologists participate in clinical training per year between 2015 and 2018 (four years).

Basic Medicine (Long-term training)

Short-Term (Clinical Medicine) Training