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Prof.Yunus Visit to Tohoku, March 10th to 13th 2012
One year has passed since the
unprecedented disaster caused by the great earthquake that hit the
eastern Japan, especially 4 prefectures in Tohoku. On the occasion of
the visit of Professor Muhammad Yunus, Founder of Grameen Bank, Nobel
Peace Laureate, to devastated areas,Tohoku University in the city of
Sendai, the city of Kesennuma and Aomori Chuo Gakuin University will
host 3 different events with keynote lecture by Professor Yunus on
March 11th and 12th with the title
of “Social business as a means of reconstruction and recovery of the
devastated areas and regional revitalization”.
For more information, please click on the link below .
March 11th, Event at Sendai City, further infohere (Japanese & English).
March 12th, Event at Kesennuma City, further info here (English).
March 12th, Event at Aomori City, further info here (Japanese).
October 1st, 2011 Yunus & Shiiki Social Business Research Center Was Launched
On
October 1st 2011, Kyushu
University established the new “Yunus
& Shiiki Social Business Research Center” (SBRC). This center,
inspired by the ideas of Prof. Muhammad YUNUS (founder of the Grameen
Bank, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (2006), and Fukuoka Asia Culture
Grand Prize (2001), Distinguished Professor of Kyushu University）has
been established thanks to the generous donation for the first time in
the world of M. Masakazu Shiiki, with the objective of work on Social
Business.
Update of the GCL Monthly news
Social Business Forum Asia in Fukuoka 2011 (Announcement)
The Grameen Creative Lab@Kyushu University, in collaboration with the city of Fukuoka, will welcome Dr Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Peace Nobel Prize (2006) and founder of the Grameen Bank for its first Social Business Forum Asia in Fukuoka from July 21st , 2011 (Thu) to July 23rd (Sat). This year theme will be “self-reliable recovery projects to the survivors of the Great Tohoku Earthquake through the idea and the practice of Social Business ".
In this Social Business Forum Asia in Fukuoka 2011, through the combination of the participants, Prof. Yunus and the global Social Business actors' ideas, we would like to examine together mid/long-term measures for the survivors and support them to return to a normal and independent life with their dignity.
For more information, please click here.
February 15, 2011 "Friends of Grameen" was organized
While the campaign of misinformation against Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank continues with increasingly aggressive attacks, support in favour of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates is also getting organised. Released today, the list of the founding members of Friends of Grameen (enclosed) illustrates through its geographic, social and economic diversity the extreme concern and strong mobilization...
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December 24, 2010 Grameen Technology Lab Was Launched
Grameen Technology Lab (GTL)
is established at Hakozaki Campus, Kyushu University on December 24th,
2010 and Prof. Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank, Kyushu
University distinguished university professor, is assumed a Trustee of
GTL.
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December 11, 2010 Social Business Lab Report
"I will be in social business
lab again, because the last lab was so exciting!" We can find such
participants, who were highly interested in social business and having
many ideas. They were, however, anxious to build and start social
business and expecting ideas, networking and professional advices from
the viewpoint of business.
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November 18, 2010 Participation in Official Launch of UN Academic Impact
On November 18, 2010, Kyushu
University joined in official launch of United Nation Academic Impact
(UNAI) as a participant university at UN headquarters, New York.
Dr. Hiroto Yasuura made a speech therein on Grameen Creative Lab@Kyushu University and Grameen Technology Lab as a representative of the University.
Dr. Hiroto Yasuura made a speech therein on Grameen Creative Lab@Kyushu University and Grameen Technology Lab as a representative of the University.
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