Since the goal of this project is to promote differential growth among participating students, the entire project will be designed in three stages. The target academic year is only a guide, and students may participate at any stage depending on their motivations and interests. In principle, all programs will be conducted in English, as all programs are co-curricular programs for Japanese and U.S. students, as well as training and internships in the U.S.

1. Basic Stage:
Global Academy (Outbound and Inbound Programs)

The Global Academy consists of (1) a program to send Nagoya University students to North Carolina State University and (2) a co-curricular program between Nagoya University students and students from partner universities in the U.S. The program is designed to cultivate a global education and mindset for students as early as possible after their enrollment.

(1) Program for Sending Students to North Carolina State University

Courses developed by North Carolina State University and implemented locally will be offered as a regular liberal arts course at Nagoya University. Participating students will receive Nagoya University credits for taking the course.

(2) International Co-operative Service Learning Program

This is an international co-curricular program in which Nagoya University students and students from partner universities in the U.S. take the lead in contributing to the local economy and society (to be offered from the spring semester of FY2024). Nagoya University will offer the program in the spring semester as a liberal arts course (or a specialized course depending on the department), and the U.S. partner universities will offer it as a credit course in the summer session. In the first half of the course, Japanese and U.S. students will study together in COIL, and then students from the U.S. partner universities will come to Japan to conduct joint fieldwork. The first year's fieldwork will focus on regional development through tourism with the cooperation of local governments in Aichi Prefecture.

2. Strategic Stage:
STEAM International Co-curricular Program based on Competition and Reflection (Inbound and Outbound Programs)

The STEAM International Co-Training Program is an integrated learning opportunity that aims to improve problem identification skills, acquisition of interdisciplinary knowledge for solutions, communication and project management skills, etc. The STEAM International Co-Training Program is a program that aims to develop (1) cross-disciplinary collaborative work projects on manufacturing and product creation, (2) cross-disciplinary international co-training projects on GX and environmental issues, and (3) Enhancement of existing programs between Japan and the U.S., such as NUSIP(Nagoya University Summer Intensive Program). The programs in this stage are open to undergraduate and graduate students. All the programs will be conducted in the form of group work competitions, and the competitions will emphasize the process of rule making by participating students, mutual evaluation, and the act of looking back (reflection), thus creating a system in which everyone evaluates the differential coefficient (inclination) of each student, rather than simply competing to win or lose. By doing so, we aim to develop diverse human resources who acquire experience in autonomous and collaborative problem solving.

(1) Collaborative Work Projects in Different Fields of Manufacturing and Product Creation

STEAM-type projects will be designed around three interdisciplinary issues that require social implementation: the development of flying robots (School of Engineering), urban livestock production (School of Agriculture), and health insurance systems in an aging society (School of Medicine). Students from Nagoya University and the U.S. partner universities may participate in the project by selecting the theme of most interest to them, regardless of their department, graduate school, or academic year. The project will be conducted in small mixed teams, including both Japanese and U.S. students, and group work will be conducted online. The competition, where the results of the group work are presented, and the reflection session afterwards will be held at the Nagoya University Higashiyama Campus, the affiliated field center, or at the Nagoya University campus of North Carolina State University, either in person or in a virtual reality space using avatars. The program will also encourage participation by students from high schools affiliated with Nagoya University's Faculty of Education, providing an opportunity for high school-university collaboration.

(2) International Joint Training Project on GX and Environmental Issues

The Nagoya University Global Environmental Leadership Program (NUGELP) was launched in 2009, and so far 196 international graduate students and 105 Japanese have participated in the program. In the NUGELP courses, students from both Japan and the U.S. form online groups, set themes related to GX and environmental issues in their home countries or regions, present regulations and solutions to those issues while introducing the problem situation (competition), and conduct a mutual evaluation (reflection process). The program will be open to all graduate schools as a STEAM education program. The group with the best proposal at the competition will be sent to North Carolina State University or invited by a partner university in the U.S. to conduct fieldwork at research facilities and infrastructure related to resource and energy conversion in the surrounding area.

(3) Enhancement of NUSIP (Nagoya University Summer Intensive Program)

Nagoya University Summer Intensive Program (NUSIP), as a summer program in automotive engineering, has accepted 358 students from 2008 to 2019 (acceptance was suspended from 2020 to 2022 due to the corona pandemic), of which 211 are from the U.S. With the resumption of the program in 2023, we are planning to in light of the fact that 10 years have passed since the start of the program, the program will be strengthened in line with the purpose of this project. Specifically, the program will further promote the acceptance of excellent students from the U.S., the partner institution, and at the end of the program, a presentation by a group of students working together in different fields, a review of the presentation, and a general discussion (review meeting) will be held to establish a system for mutual evaluation.

3. Applied stage:
Autonomous Learning and Research Internship Program

This is a long-term outbound/inbound program mainly for graduate students. Since the program is based on the premise of master's and doctoral research guidance, it will be implemented through exchange programs and joint degree programs with partner universities in the U.S. The program aims to (1) expand existing exchange programs and graduate student exchange programs, and (2) deepen inter-university personnel exchange by establishing joint degree programs with U.S. universities.

(1) Expansion of Mutual Exchange Programs with U.S. Partner Universities and Graduate Research Internships

Through the Japan-U.S.-Canada Cooperative Education Program (JUACEP) of the Graduate School of Engineering, 101 students have been accepted and 116 students have been dispatched to partner institutions in the U.S. and Canada. The program has been highly evaluated in terms of fostering world-class young researchers with international competitiveness, as they study abroad in research laboratories. Through this project, the number and scale of inbound and outbound programs will be expanded sequentially. In addition, the scale of exchange with U.S. partner universities (Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, Tulane University, Pennsylvania State University, etc.), which the Nagoya University School of Medicine has been developing for the past 30 years, will also be expanded. Medical education will be provided at the School of Medicine Hospital, and international medical personnel training and networks will be developed together with partner universities.

(2) Establishment of Joint Degree Programs with U.S. Universities, etc.

The Graduate School of Medicine has a joint supervision program with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, which provides graduate students with the opportunity to conduct research at a partner university for six months to one year. The program has been expanded and revised to include a joint supervision program. Aiming to develop and revise this program, we will consider the possibility of concluding a joint degree program in the doctoral program within five years.