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WMU Community ―Building a WMU Japan Fellows Network―
          Presented by
     Mr. GAO Deyi (China) 1995017
 
 World Maritime University was initiated by International Maritime Organization in 1983 for the mission of maritime education and training to achieve the purpose of safer shipping, cleaner oceans and the effective management of shipping & port operations. Some 1,400 nationals from 132 countries worldwide have graduated from this special global institution for advanced maritime studies. For many years, The Nippon Foundation has donated funds to World Maritime University for the student fellowship for developing countries. The successful scholarship for WMU students was not only benefit for students themselves, but also benefit for the maritime field globally. In China, there are over 10 WMU students per year supported by Nippon Foundation. Those graduates now work at the Chinese maritime community and they play a very important role for the national maritime industry.
 It is an important consideration of keeping fellows on information exchange and mutual cooperation among the fellows and interested sectors in the maritime industry after their graduation from WMU. This is a special network which links with the Japanese maritime community and this bridge might be a potential field for cooperation in the future. It is a little pity that fellows are not frequently exchange information and there is not in fact a convenient platform to communicate each other. In China, fellows work individually somewhere and a few activities have conducted in random.
 This forum could be a good opportunity and occasion to promote bonds of friendship between fellows and the Japanese parties concerned. To explore the possibility of building a WMU Japan fellows network, some proposals are given as follows:
1. Today, graduates hold key roles in industry, maritime administrations, training institutions and international organizations. Obviously, fellows have different interesting areas and it is necessary to identify some common needs. The exchange information can be catalog some specific parts and people can focus on a particular field. It is possible to create several groups and key persons would be appointed. They may concentrate a particular subject for collection and distribution of information.
2. It is better to establish a platform for exchange information and cooperation concerned. This platform could be a newsletter or website. The newsletter can be easily developed if the information contributor actively does and a traditional distribution may be done in simple ways. However, the newsletter can be done only one direction. The website could be potential approach on the interaction and fellows can actively do contributions in any place and any time.
3. Shanghai may be a possible place to create an information center or homepage on the regional basis. It is suggested that a joint center (forum), conducted by key persons supported by some organizations, for example, Japanese Ship & Ocean Foundation (SOF), JETRO Shanghai (Japan External Trade Organization) and Shanghai Maritime University, could do the bound on the exchange information and cooperation concerned.
4. It is an obligation for all fellows to be actively on the exchange of information. The fellows network should do their best work to encourage close communication each other in future. The above consideration would be only suggestion for fellows' reference.








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