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Good Luck to 32 New Sasakawa Fellows at World Maritime University in Sweden
[2021/06/08]
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Ocean issues, along with climate change, have now become recognized as global challenges. Since 1988, The Nippon Foundation has supported students mainly from developing countries to study at World Maritime University (WMU) in Malmö in southern Sweden by offering scholarships for a 14-month master’s degree course in maritime and ocean affairs. Since WMU was established in 1983 as a center of excellence for maritime postgraduate education, research and training, the faculty has been enhanced, the curriculum has been enriched, and WMU has grown in prestige within the global maritime industry, attracting top students from around the world. To date, our scholarship program has generated 669 fellows from 77 countries. We are very proud that some of them are now playing active roles in their home countries and elsewhere as executive officers of maritime administrative agencies and presidents of maritime universities. They are also actively networking with other Sasakawa fellows under the auspices of the Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation. For the 2021-22 academic year starting in September, we have selected 32 new fellows from 27 countries after careful and strict vetting. They are from Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Comoros, Ecuador, Gabon, Georgia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kenya, Liberia, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, East Timor, Tanzania, and Venezuela. The new fellows are expected to gather at an entrance ceremony at WMU in September. Winter, as you might expect, is dark and cold across most of Sweden. The sun rises at around 10 a.m. and sets at 3 p.m; there are only a few hours of daylight. I am always impressed by how quickly the Sasakawa fellows adapt to their new surroundings, studying intensely while living away from their families. I wish them all the best in their new life at WMU! |