The entrance ceremony of NU was capped by the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement between NU and SEARCA on the Joint PhD Scholarship Project. Under the agreement, eight (8) Filipinos will be awarded scholarships by NU and SEARCA. Signatories to the MOA are Dr. Seiichi Matsuo, NU President, and Dr. Gil C. Saguiguit, Jr., SEARCA Director.

In March 2015, NU and SEARCA also collaborated in a joint scholarship project for four Cambodians enrolled in the Transnational Doctoral Program of the NU Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences through the NU satellite campus based at the Royal University of Agriculture in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.To know more about NU, please visit http://en-nagoya-u.ac.jp. To know more about SEARCA, please visit www.searca.org. (article contributed by E.C. Cedicol)