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FOLENS Seminar May 2012: Reflection on 2011 and Planning for 2012
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| Reviewed FOLENS Seminar activities in 2011 | Made presentation regarding what we would like to do in 2012 | Produced proposals by making groups based on interested theme |
On 16 May, we had the first FOLENS seminar in academic year 2012. We had a participation of 24 FOLENS students and 4 FOLENS Head Office faculty members. This seminar focused on the reflection of activities in 2011 and planning for 2012. FOLENS Seminar should be based on the interests and needs of FOLENS students, so this seminar was the important first step of this academic year.
The seminar was started by self-introduction of new FOLENS students and faculty members. It was followed by reflection of FOLENS Seminar activities in 2011 by looking at slides. Then, based on the last year’s activities, each student wrote down rough ideas for this year’s activities and made presentation to other students. There were a variety of interesting ideas based on each student’s area of expertise and awareness, or recent environmental issues. After hearing all the ideas, like-minded students made a group to focus on concrete proposals based on a specific theme. After all, we ended up five main issues, namely, Water, Japanese Agriculture, Effect of the Modern World, Visit to Tohoku and Renewable energy.
After the seminar, each group was tasked to post a concrete proposal to Mailing List. The proposals which attracted more students’ votes will be implemented as this year’s FOLENS Seminar activity. Let’s see which proposal will be realized! (AI)