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The 6th Board of the Director’s Meeting of APEN
Date: December 5 - 7, 2016
Venue: Gujarat Technological University. Ahmedabad, India
Host by: GTU’s Centre for Industrial Design (OPEN DESIGN SCHOOL)
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Background:
Gujarat Technological University (GTU), one of the largest Technological University of
India has been trying through a number of innovative programs and initiatives, to
significantly improve the quality of graduates/diploma holders that it offers to the
industry and society. GTU is working towards providing all necessary exposure to its
students which can make them industry ready. Considering GTU’s initiatives &
achievements and based on the meeting of Prof Hidetoshi Nishimura, Executive
Director, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) with Shri
Narendra Modi, Honourable Prime Minister of India (then the Chief Minister of
Gujarat), GTU was invited to represent India in Asia Professional Education Network
(APEN) network. APEN has been founded on June 6, 2011 and it is the first education
network in Asia, which specially aims at producing professionals, who can solve the many
issues that industry confronts today and in the future.
MoU signing ceremony: Left to Right: Dr. G. P. Vadodaria, I/C Registrar-GTU, Mr. Keyur Darji, RA-GTU, Dr.
Akshai Aggarwal, Previous Vice Chancellor—GTU, Prof. Mitsuhiro MAEDA, ED—APEN Japan, Ms. Anita
Prakash, Director-ERIA Indonesia, Mr. Naresh Jadeja, Dy. Director-GTU
Currently, APEN has 13 members from 13 Asian countries, and the Advanced Institute of
Industrial Technology, (AIIT, Japan) plays the role of secretariat. Other members of APEN
are Gujarat Technological University (India), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China),
Pohang University of Science and technology (South Korea), Vietnam National University
(Vietnam), Institute of Technology of Cambodia (Cambodia), Institut Teknologi Bandung
(Indonesia), Thammasat University (Thailand), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Malaysia),
National University of Laos (Laos), De La Salle University (Philippines), University Brunei
Darussalam (Brunei), Yangon Technological University (Myanmar).
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6th Board of Directors (BOD) meeting of APEN at GTU, India:
The 6th Board of Directors meeting of APEN was organized on 6th December, 2016 at
Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Every year, APEN is
organizing BOD meeting at different countries to map the progress of all the members in
Design/Project based learning for skill development.
Based on GTU’s initiatives and large impact being made by it, GTU has shown willingness
to host the 6th BOD meeting for FY 2015-16 in India before the APEN secretariat and
other members during the 5th BOD meeting at Indonesia last year and APEN secretariat
and other members accepted our proposal for hosting 6th BOD meeting at GTU. Hence,
6th Board of the Director’s meeting along with a seminar on “Role of Design in Global
Economy through Academia-Industry-Government Collaboration” was organized. In 5th
BOD meeting of APEN, on behalf of GTU, Dr N. M. Bhatt, Dean-GTU, Mr. Naresh Jadeja,
Deputy Director-GTU and Karmjitsinh Bihola, Asst. prof. – GTU (Centre for Industrial
Design – OPEN DESIGN SCHOOL) have participated and presented GTU’s efforts in
Design/Projects Based Learning and Innovation to other directors and representative of
around 14 countries.
Top 13 institutes of Asia region as a director of APEN are working in the field of Design
and Project based learning to overcome the issues that industry and community
confronts today with the aim of skill development among the students and MSME
personnel. Dr. Rajul Gajjar, Honourable Vice Chancellor – GTU has nominated Dr. N. M.
Bhatt (Dean of GTU; Director of GIT) and Mr. Karmjitsinh Bihola (Assistant Professor,
Centre for Industrial Design-GTU) to manage and coordinate this 6th BOD meeting of
APEN. The main objectives of the meeting were:
Sharing best practices in Engineering education for project based learning
Collaboration for projects and consulting work through APEN consortium
members
Active Teaching Learning Through Electronic Media Like Skype or webinars
Participation and Presentation of Paper During Symposium/Conferences
Sharing the Experiences (Success Story, Challenges etc.)
Research in the field of Design Engineering, Project Based Learning, Engineering
Education
Implementation of various initiatives for collaboration with Asian SMEs
Connectivity
Faculty and students exchange for various projects to learn practical approach
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Day 1: 5th December, 2016 – A meeting of GTU representative and APEN members
APEN delegation was arrived in India on 4th December, 2016. On 5th December, they
visited GTU and had a meeting with Hon’ble VC madam and GTU representative to
understand the each other’s need in terms of collaboration between GTU, APEN and
other directors’ institute. VC mam enlightened the activities and initiations of GTU, to the
APEN delegation, regarding Design/Project based learning, Academia-Industry
collaboration and skill development efforts. Then Dr. Shintaro Ishijima, Chairperson of
APEN and retired professor of Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology (AIIT), Japan
explained the main activities of APEN. Also he explained the structure and courses at AIIT.
AIIT is funded by Tokyo metropolitan local government; it offers the courses for Master
level only to the industry professionals mainly aiming for skill development. He also
described the flagship programs of the APEN for MSME collaboration and skill
development in brief. Prof. Alvin Culaba from De La Salle University of Philippines has
described the efforts taken by his university for SME development in Philippines with
different projects.
The participants’ lists for 6th Board of Directors meeting are as below:
Sr. No.
ORGANIZATION NAME OF
PARTICIPANT TITLE COUNTRY
1 Asia Professional Education Network
Dr. Shintaro Ishijima Chairperson of APEN; Honorary President of AIIT
Japan
2 Prof. Mitsuhiro Maeda
Secretary General, APEN; Professor and Director of Foreign Affairs of AIIT
3 Gujarat Technological University
Dr. N M Bhatt
Dean ME & PhD – GTU; Director GIT; Chairperson of APEN India Chapter India
4 Mr. Karmjitsinh Bihola
Assistant Professor, Centre for Industrial Design (Open Design School)
5
Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology
Dr. Satoshi Yoshida
Professor of Graduate School of Industrial Technology; Chairperson of APEN Japan Chapter
Japan
6 De La Salle University
Prof. Alvin B. Culaba Ph.D.
University Fellow & Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Chairperson of APEN Philippine Chapter
Philippines
7 Asia Professional Education Network
Mr. Toshikuni Kaneto
Staff, APEN Japan
8 Mr. Tadashi Hatasa Staff, APEN
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(Meeting of GTU representative and APEN members at Vice Chancellor office, GTU)
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Day 2: 6th December, 2016 – 6th Board of Directors (BOD) meeting of APEN
The 6th Board of the Directors’ Meeting of APEN was started sharp at 10.00 am in the A-1
conference hall of Gujarat Technological University (GTU), India. Directors of different
countries were present in the meeting to discuss the agendas listed below.
Agenda of 6th BOD Meeting:
1. Inaugural Address:
a. Opening address (Chairperson)
b. Welcome address (Dr. Rajul Gajjar, Hon’ble VC – GTU)
c. Address by directors and Introduction
d. Vote of thanks (Dr. J. C. Lilani, Registrar, GTU)
2. Confirmation of the Quorum (Secretariat of APEN)
3. (for Information)
a. New Regular Members
University of Indonesia (Indonesia)
Tokyo Association of Small Business Entrepreneurs (Japan)
Eastern Visayas State University (Philippines)
b. Withdrawal
NTU (Singapore)
4. Progress Report 2015-16
5. Action Plan 2016-17
6. For discussion
7. Closing of BOD
In inauguration ceremony, Dr. Rajul Gajjar,
Hon’ble Vice Chancellor, GTU has welcomed all
attendees of the meeting and shared her views
on how to collaborate between GTU and other
directors’ institute of APEN in Academia-Industry
collaboration, skill development and the
roadmap ahead to contribute in industrial
growth through various initiations. She also has
shown the willingness for the partnership for Dr. Rajul Gajjar, VC – GTU
during inaugural talk
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Dr. Shintaro Ishijima, Chairperson
of APEN during opening address
projects and internship program between GTU and other directors’ institute of APEN.
Also she mentioned the visit of India’s PM to Japan for addressing the needs of industry
in Asian region. VC madam proposed the plan for creating model for MSME development
for Asian countries by the activities of APEN.
Dr. Shintaro Ishijima, Chairperson of APEN
explained the journey of APEN from its
inception phase in 2011. APEN has mainly
three pillars as SME networking, Human
Resource Development though skills and SME
finance, he mentioned. He said all 14
countries as a Director of APEN has similar
problems with different context and solution for
the same would be different, so we collectively
work for Academia-Industry collaboration to
prepare our students with the skill that industry
needs today.
Directors of APEN present in the meeting gave their introduction and briefly explained
the activities of their respective institute in line with Design/Project Based Learning and
MSME skill development.
Dr. J. C. Lilani, Registrar – GTU thanked chairman of APEN for giving the opportunity of
hosting the 6th BOD meeting of APEN at GTU along with he also thanked all directors of
APEN for attending the meeting during vote of thanks.
(Inaugural function of 6th BOD meeting of APEN, June 6, 2015 @ ITB, Indonesia)
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Inaugural ceremony of 6th Board of Directors meeting: December 6, 2016 at GTU, India
Dr. Rajul Gajjar greeting Dr. Shintaro Ishijima Dr. J C Lilani felicitating Prof. Mitsuhiro Maeda
Dr. J C Lilani giving Vote of thanks Discussions during BOD meeting
Dr. N M Bhatt greeting Dr. Alvin Culaba Dr. N M Bhatt greeting Dr. Satoshi Yoshida
Directors of Japan and Philippines Directors of GTU – India
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List of APEN Members (As of Dec 06, 2016):
[Directors]
No. University Name Country
1 Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology Japan
2 Pohang University of Science and Technology South Korea
3 Shanghai Jiao Tong University China
4 Vietnam National University Vietnam
5 Institute of Technology of Cambodia Cambodia
6 Institut Teknologi Bandung Indonesia
7 Thammasat University Thailand
8 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Malaysia
9 National University of Laos Lao PDR
10 De La Salle University Philippines
11 University Brunei Darussalam Brunei Darussalam
12 Yangon Technological University Myanmar
13 Gujarat Technological University India
[Regular Members]
No. Name Country
1 The Hiroshima Shinkin Bank Japan
2 The Okazaki Shinkin Bank Japan
3 The Johnan Shinkin Bank Japan
4 Universitas Darma Persada Indonesia
5 Japan Institute of Design Promotion Japan
6 JTB Corporate Sales Inc. s Japan
7 J-Tech Corporation Japan
8 University of the Ryukyus Japan
9 University of the Philippines, Institute for small scale Industries
Philippines
10 Tanri Abeng University Indonesia
11 Hanoi University of Business and Technology Vietnam
12 SIMCO SONG DA Joint Stock Company Vietnam
13 Lao VITA Development Co., Ltd. Lao PDR
14 Newton Microfinance Institution Lao PDR
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Progress Report of APEN 2015-16:
Dr. Mitsuhiro Maeda, Secretary General of APEN reported the progress of APEN activities
during 2015-16 as below:
1. APEN conference on Asia – Africa Aerial and Optical Silk Road
(APEN Silk Road Conference), Bandung, November 11-12, 2015.
2. JAIF (Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund) Projects
a. Kick-off Meeting (Manila, May 5, 2016)
b. i - HRD Seminar (Tokyo, May 13, 2016)
c. i - HRD Seminar (KL, July 25-26, 2016)
d. CIS Seminar (Manila, October 4, 2016)
e. CIS Seminar (Hanoi, October 6, 2016)
f. i - HRD Seminar (Hanoi, October 7, 2016)
g. i - HRD Seminar (Bandar Seri Begawan, November 14, 2016)
3. ICBM (Industrial Community Building Measures) Seminar
a. Hanoi International Seminar: International Community Building – the Asian
Development Strategy under the Globalization 2.0 and the implication to
Vietnam (HUBT, Hanoi, July 28th, 2015)
b. JETRO Indonesia-Japan Business, Trade and Investment Partnership
Symposium(Jakarta, November 24, 2015)
c. ICBM Seminar (HUBT< Hanoi, November 30, 2015)
Action Plan of APEN 2016-17:
Dr. Maeda again explained the action plan for 2016-17 to the directors of APEN.
Four major proposals as shown below were discussed through action plan of FY 2016-17
among the participants in the meeting and all four decisions were approved by the
Directors.
1. JAIF (Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund) Projects
Duration of the projects: end of June 2017
Seminars are scheduled
- Vientiane (January 2017)
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- Phnom Penh (January 2017)
- Bandung (March 2017)
2. ICBM (Industrial Community Building Measures) Seminar
3. ACFi (Asian Community Finance Initiative)
4. i - HRD
Industry - Academia Collaboration Seminar: 2.00 pm
After the lunch session, we have seminar of Industry – Academia Collaboration. In this
seminar, we also invited Deans, Academic council members and senior professor of GTU
to share their views on the seminar topic.
This seminar was started with the key note presentation from Dr. Shintaro Ishijima,
Chairperson of APEN with topic on “APEN as a Center of Asian Industrial Human Resource
Development”. In his presentation, he explained the roadmap ahead for APEN activities
and how all directors’ institute can participate and grow in terms of MSME development.
He said engineering students who would become future industry experts required the
Scientific Knowledge and Protocol Knowledge to compete globally; Scientific Knowledge
is the knowledge that students get in the school/college through theory and Protocol
Knowledge is the practical knowledge which students would get through learning by
doing approach, project based leaning and industrial exposure. He also emphasized on
the “Emotional Quotient (EQ)” – another competence characteristics for the industry
people. He said capacity to empathize and ethics is very much required in today’s
generation which is one of the key characteristics of Japanese workplace.
Second presentation was from Dr. N M Bhatt, GTU. First he gave brief introduction of
GTU’s affiliating structure to directors of APEN in line with
Global context and how GTU is bringing all those aspects in
its curricula and delivered the needs of Industry and
society. He explained the efforts of GTU in Design Based
Learning through Design Engineering course which was
introduced by GTU in AY 2014-15 from 3rd to 6th Semester
across the engineering discipline for transforming “Thinkers
into Doers”. Design Engineering is one of the pioneered and
first of its kind initiation of GTU among the affiliating type of
Universities in India which is based on Design thinking
Methodology. He mentioned the process followed by
GTU for Design Engineering course, implementation
efforts along with various International and National
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Prof. Alvin Culaba
during seminar
Prof. Mitsuhiro Maeda
during seminar
interactions for strengthening the initiation. In two years, GTU’s Centre for Industrial
Design (Open Design School) trained more than 2400 faculty members of GTU affiliated
colleges in the Gujarat state for Design Thinking through 39 Faculty Development
Program (FDP), each of four days. He also explained the academia and industry
collaboration of GTU through Industrial Shodhayatra for final year capstone projects,
Industry Based Electives, Centre of Excellence and various MoU with Industry and
organization for skill development. He mentioned the other academic initiation of GTU
like Vishwakarma Yojana, 500 Colleges - 500 Villages and 100 activity points. He added
that GTU developed the first Student Start-up Policy - which is now implemented by
AICTE across the India for affiliating institutes and also GTU is approved as Nodal Institute
(NI) and Technological Business Incubator (TBI) to help Startups based on Product,
Process and Service under the “Scheme for Assistance for Startups/Innovation under New
Industrial Policy 2015”. When Dr. Bhatt was describing about framework and canvases
developed by GTU for easy learning and understating for students to such an intellectual
audience, everyone had raised their eyebrows with curiosity and taken the pictures of
framework and canvases.
Next presentation was by Prof. Mitsuhiro Maeda, Secretary General of APEN on topic
“The Global Production Network Analysis (GPNA) and Developmental Strategies”. He
explained strategies for Industry – Academia collaboration for MSME development in
Asian region. He also mentioned production scenario in different countries and how skill
developments help in house products for GDP growth of country.
Last presentation of this seminar by Prof. Alvin Culaba from De La Salle University,
Philippine about the “Establishing an Innovation Ecosystem for SMEs: Case of Philippine
Algae Industry”. He explained the efforts of his university in research of Algae industry in
Philippines. He also mentioned that India has big advantage in the field of Algae
development and research.
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This session of seminar on Industry – Academia collaboration was ended up with the very
good Q & A round between APEN directors and invited Deans, Academic council
members and senior professors of GTU. Here, we would like to take privilege that GTU’s
efforts in Design Based Learning through Design Engineering initiatives were very much
appreciated by all present participants.
Mr. Karmjitsinh Bihola, Asst. prof., Centre
for Industrial Design (Open Design School)
– GTU, has
successfully
managed and
coordinated
the 6th BOD
meeting of
APEN and
other respective events.
Deans, Academic council members & senior professors of GTU discussing with APEN directors
At the end of BOD meeting, below
proposals were made:
1. APEN instructors group for GTU
2. India – Japan skill initiatives
3. MSME connectivity conference
among Asian countries at GTU
next year
4. Craftsman skill development
centre for India
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Day 3: 7th December, 2016 – Meeting with Governorshri of Gujarat and
MSME experts
In the morning, GTU has arranged the meeting of APEN delegation with Governorshri of
Gujarat at Rajbhavan, Gandhinagar at 11.45 am. At Rajbhavan, in the meeting, VC madam
first thanked Governor Shri O P Kohli sir, for giving his valuable time to discuss the MSME
skill development agenda with APEN delegation and how India and other countries may
collaborate on this note. Dr. Ishijima briefly explained to Governorshri about APEN
history, objectives of establishment of APEN along with its activities and implementation
efforts till date.
Governor sir has shared his views on learning and networking with academic institutes
and industries of Japan and other Asian countries for their technological advancements
and skill developments and he said “India should now become technological advanced
country – How long India will remain developing nation?”
We had very fruitful meeting with Governorshri regarding MSME development through
skill sets and how engineering students will get benefit through activities of APEN.
GTU and APEN delegation with Shri. O P Kohli, Governorshri of Gujarat
on 7th December, 2016 at Rajbhavan, Gandhinagar
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In the afternoon of 7th December, we had also organized the meet up for MSME experts
and APEN delegation to discuss on how to network with various MSMEs of different APEN
director countries; sharing the best practices (Success Story, Challenges etc.); planning
and implementation of various initiatives for collaboration with Asian MSMEs
connectivity; Industry-Academia collaboration. We had very fruitful discussion during this
meeting with all participants. Pictures for this meet up can be found below.
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Glimpses of Event:
Report Prepared By:
Dr. N M Bhatt Karmjitsinh Bihola
Dean – GTU; Director – Gandhinagar institute of
Technology
Asst. Prof. – GTU, Centre for Industrial Design
(OPEN DESIGN SCHOOL)
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