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Ms Eriko Saito (Completed EU Studies Undergraduate Diploma Programme in Fall 2015)

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Ms Eriko Saito (Completed EU Studies Undergraduate Diploma Programme in Fall 2015)

■Affiliation at the time of completion of the programme: 21st Century Programme, Kyushu University
■Career after graduation: Graduate School of Economics, Kyushu University

I registered for EU-DPs when I was a third year student after I began to consider studying abroad in France. Through the EU-DPs courses, I gained valuable opportunities to learn about Europe. I learned about the basic structure of the EU, which I was not so knowledgeable about, the overall scheme of economic matters in the EU, and about laws in France, which was not related to my major. Fortunately, after I had decided to study in France, I was awarded an “EU scholarship” provided by EUIJ-Kyushu* for students who want to study in Europe. I took advantage of the scholarship as a means to support my life and study in France.

While studying in France, the knowledge about the EU acquired through EU-DPs was really helpful to me, as the contents relating to the structure of the EU were also dealt with in some of my classes in France. Also, though writing a research paper for the completion of the programme was hard work for me, it became a motivation to research deeply about the EU and brought me a further inquiring mind.

During the years of my EU-DPs enrollment, I came to understand much more about Europe and gain a deeper sense of European culture. I would like to continue to research further and expand my connection with Europe from now on by utilizing the completion of my EU-DPs programme.
(currently enrolled in the EU-DPs for graduate students as of June 2016)

* EUIJ-Kyushu: The European Union Institute in Japan, Kyushu (EUIJ-Kyushu), one of the academic institutions worldwide affiliated with the EU, was administered by a consortium of Seinan Gakuin University, Fukuoka Women’s University, and Kyushu University (two members in the extended 2015 academic year as Fukuoka Women’s University and Kyushu University) and completed its operations on 31 March 2016.