Throughout 30 years of my international career - from the alps mountains in Europe where I worked at a Geneva-based United Nations/Swiss Education Institution, to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia where I worked at the University of Melbourne/US MNC, I have had the great privileged to work with both public and private-sector professionals from different regions of the world. It was also a great privilege for me to support over 500 international /domestic students participated in the student mobility programmes and develop more than 40 institutional innovation partnerships at a global level.

The benefits of student mobility programmes are obvious – studying abroad experiences nurture open-mindedness, tolerance, and cross-cultural awareness to name a few.
I have come across plenty of business, academic, and government professionals worldwide who had participated in either student mobility programmes or other types of international education programmes in his/her youth (including my EU spouse/fmr. Erasmus student). The experience from those student mobility programmes prepares students to come to grips with challenges of the current and future at the local and global level. I believe that the student mobility projects could play a significant part of building next generation of global leaders.

The Global Center provides overall support for studying abroad and assistance to students from overseas as well as general support for the Overseas Program. We are here for all students from different regions of the world. We hope to welcome you in Nagano, the Heart of Japan - the Land of the Rising Sun.

'Some men see things as they are and say why, I dream things that never were and say, why not' George Bernard Shaw