Campus-in-Campus Annual Meeting 2026 Held at IIT Guwahati

The Campus-in-Campus (CiC) Annual Meeting 2026 was held on November 10-11, at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), one of the University of Tsukuba's CiC partner universities.

The Campus-in-Campus (CiC) initiative promotes trans-border education and research collaboration by sharing campus functions among partner universities and transcending national and institutional boundaries. The annual meeting is held to strengthen collaboration among CiC partner institutions.

The meeting brought together approximately 30 representatives from 10 CiC partner universities on site and around 20 participants online. Distinguished attendees included Devendra JALIHAL, Director of IIT Guwahati; Kaustubha MOHANTY, Dean of Alumni, Corporate and International Relations at IIT Guwahati; Günther MESCHKE, Vice-Rector for Research and Transfer of Ruhr University Bochum (RUB); Etienne GHEERAERT, Vice-President for General Affairs of Grenoble INP-UGA; and Chin-Lung YANG, Associate Vice President for International Affairs of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU).

From the University of Tsukuba, more than ten faculty and staff members participated, including NAGATA Kyosuke, President; NAKAUCHI Yasushi, Vice President for Collaborative Research; OHNEDA Osamu, Vice President for Global Affairs; SAKURAI Takeaki, Executive Officer for Research Management and Director of CiC Initiatives; FUKUSHIGE Mizuho, Associate Professor and Vice Director of CiC Initiatives; and Aaron MENA, Specially Appointed Professor of the Social Impact Promotion Office. The Social Impact DOJO & GASSHUKU program between the University of Tsukuba and IITG was presented by the faculty members leading the program, Professor IRIE Kenji of the Institute of Medicine, UT and Associate Professor Siddhartha SINGHA, IITG. Students who participated in the program also shared their experiences.

In conjunction with the Annual Meeting, the symposium "Regional Food Knowledge for Global Health: Food as Medicine" was jointly organized as a side event by the University of Tsukuba, the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati), and Gifu University.
Professor ISODA Hiroko, Director of the North African and Mediterranean Research Center at the University of Tsukuba, served as a co-organizer alongside Professor Utpal BORA, Dean of the School of Life Sciences at IIT Guwahati.
The symposium highlighted the potential of regional food resources and traditional knowledge to contribute to global health through the concept of "food as medicine."

Through discussions on research collaboration, education, student mobility, and industry-academia partnerships, participants shared future directions for the CiC network and explored opportunities for deeper multilateral cooperation. The University of Tsukuba looks forward to further strengthening collaboration with its CiC partner universities in research, education, and industry-academia initiatives in the years ahead.