The KCG Group, including The Kyoto College of Graduate Studies for Informatics (KCGI) and Kyoto Computer Gakuin (KCG), signed an exchange agreement with CMC, a leading ICT company operating CMC University in Vietnam, on Friday, December 15, 2023, for the purpose of cooperation in advanced human resource education and development in Japan and Vietnam.The signing ceremony was held at the Hyakumanben Campus of KCGI Kyoto, and was attended by KCG Group President Wataru Hasegawa and KCGI Vice President Yoichi Terashita, while CMC Chairman and President Nguyen Trung Chinh and CMC University President Nguyen Ngoc Binh signed the memorandum of agreement (MoA).The KCG Group actively promotes cooperative relationships with universities, educational institutions, and companies around the world.
CMC is the second largest ICT company in Vietnam, and CMC University under the group opened in 2022 as "Vietnam's first digital university model" with all educational content, environment, and school management digitized.CMC University has signed a university exchange agreement with KCGI and KCG in 2022.President Binh is a former professor and former vice president of KCGI.
With this agreement, KCGI/KCG will strengthen its existing cooperation with CMC University and share with CMC its experience in educational and management models for private educational institutions.We also intend to implement exchange programs, credit recognition, and teacher exchanges.CMC also gives preference to KCGI and KCG graduates for employment at CMC Japan (a subsidiary of CMC) in Japan and Vietnam.
Prior to the signing ceremony on the afternoon of December 15, seven members of the CMC Group, including Chairman and President Chin, visited KCG Kyoto Ekimae School.We toured the classes and the KCG Museum.After that, they moved to KCGI Hyakumanben Campus, where they watched a mini piano concert by renowned pianist Kyoko Tagawa, a professor at KCGI, in the new building hall, which will be completed in 2022.
At the signing ceremony, Chancellor and President Hasegawa said, "The KCG Group celebrates its 60th anniversary this year.The university has been providing IT education in various fields such as automotive control, medical, marine, agriculture, and voice acting, and will start IT education in other fields in the future.The KCG Group will continue to pursue cutting-edge IT education," he said.In response, Chairman and President Chin said, "This year marks 30 years since CMC Corporation was founded in 1990.It is just half of KCG.We look forward to further cooperation between KCG Group and CMC Group in the future.
On the following day, Saturday the 16th, the Japan-Vietnam Business Forum, organized and co-sponsored by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), the Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), and the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan, was held at the Hotel New Otani in Akasaka, Tokyo, with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in attendance.At the ceremony, KCG Group and CMC presented the signed MoA document.
Since its founding, the KCG Group has been actively involved in building a global educational network.In particular, since the opening of KCGI in 2004, KCGI has concluded academic exchange agreements with universities in China, Korea, the Czech Republic, and Italy.In Vietnam, after 2020, we have established cooperative relationships with National Hue University (HU), National University of Danang (UD), Hanoi National University of Humanities and Social Sciences (VNU-USSH) in 20 years, and Phoenicia University (PU), CMC University, and Thang Long University (TLU) in 22 years.In 2022, the country will conclude a cooperation agreement with VTI Education, which belongs to the VTI Group, a major offshore development company and is involved in IT education in the country, to promote the development of IT human resources in the country.
