Stockholm University has a strategic partnership with the University of Tokyo. As a part of this partnership between the two universities the vice chancellor of Stockholm University allocated funds in 2018 for the cooperation with the University of Tokyo. Within this cooperation the Department of Education at Stockholm University has since 2014 developed cooperation with the Faculty of Education at the University of Tokyo. The Department of Education had the opportunity to be able to use some of the funds allocated for the cooperation between the two universities which made it possible for 13 teachers/researchers, PhD candidates and master students from the department to visit Tokyo on December 10 to 16, 2018. The delegation from Stockholm University also included teachers from Katedralskolan in Linköping and students from Globala gymnasiet in Stockholm. These two schools have been partners with Stockholm University in a project about education for sustainable development.
The purpose with the visit was to further elaborate the cooperation between the two university departments and with special focus on education and research related to education for sustainable development. The program of the visit contained lectures, study visits, workshops and a seminar. The program started with a session about “Education models in the world and education transfer”. Professor Ryoko Tsuneyoshi from the University of Tokyo gave a lecture about this from a Japanese perspective and associate professor Ulf Fredriksson from Stockholm University talked about the same subject from a Swedish perspective. Study visits were made to the Secondary School attached to the Faculty of Education at the University of Tokyo, the Japanese Resource Centre for education for sustainable development and to the Japanese Ministry of Education. A joint workshop was organised where PhD candidates and students from the two universities worked together with questions related to education for sustainable development. At a joint seminar PhD candidates and students from Stockholm University gave nine presentations on different aspects of education for sustainable development. During the visit it was discussed how the future cooperation can be further developed in respect of both education and research.
