1.Program
The India-Japan Education Program (IJEP) is a collaborative industry-academia-government linking effort that was adopted by at the University of Tokyo as part of the Re-Inventing Japan Project (The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan) in 2014 .
The IJEP Internship Program, organized by the School of Engineering and the School of Information Science and Technology, provides research internships for students from collaborative Indian institutions in the fields of railway technology, social infrastructure systems, innovation, technology management, and information science. The candidates of the internship are expected to have a strong interest in pursuing graduate level studies at the University of Tokyo.
2.Host labs
Students will be hosted by one of the laboratories listed in the file (Host Labs List). The special academic conditions required for research from each lab is also provied in the file.
3.Requirements and eligibility
IJEP Internship Program applicants must:
o Be full-time students enrolled in one of IJEP collaborating institutions (IIT Kanpur, Kharagpur, Hyderabad, Delhi, Madras and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
o Bachelor students should have completed at least three full years in a bachelor’s degree program by the beginning of the internship, and master’s students should have the bachelor degree in engineering.
o Have a strong record of academic performance
4.Schedules
Between May 1, 2016 –July 31, 2016 (Minimum 62 days)
5.Number of participants
Up to 10 students
6.Financial support
Stipend: JPY 240,000 for the whole duration of the internship (JASSO scholarship)
Travel Allowance: Round-trip flight ticket from the nearest airport in India to Tokyo
Although IJEP will endeavor to accommodate students with university lodging, housing should be arranged by the participating students. The payment for the housing shall be the responsibility of the participating students.
7.Application
The programl adopts the online application system T-cens (https://t-cens.iapply.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/t-cens_sp/login.php). The applicant is asked to create an account in T-cens system, then fill the application form and submit the required files online. The applicant should prepare the below files for submission through T-cens system.
o Personal statement (Download)
o Letter of Recommendation issued by applicant’s supervising faculty member (Download)
o Scanned copy of latest Academic Transcripts (including both terms from the previous academic year); Master’s student should also submit the bachelor’s academic transcript
8.Application period
10:00 November 16, 2015 (JST)~ 15:00 December 15, 2015 (JST)
9.Selection announcement
February 28, 2016
Selected students will be notified directly by email and from T-cens.
Contact
Befor you want to contact us for your enquiry, please do read the above description and FAQs carefully in advance. It could answer most of the questions. We will neglect the enquiy which has been listed in FAQ.
IJEP secretariat [email protected]
