Starting the Distance Learning for Ukrainian students！

　The University of Yamanashi started offering the distance learning for the graduate students in Ukraine.
　National Aerospace University–Kharkiv Aviation Institute, the one of the top universities in Ukraine, requested the distance learning for the graduate students deprived of learning opportunities to us.
　This project is consulted with Kseniya Fomichova who works at the University of Yamanashi.
　On Friday, April 8, 2022, we held the press conference to inform it.
　At the press conference, President Shinji Shimada said” I am impressed by the Ukrainian students to never give up the learning. It is our mission as educators to respond to their passion for learning. We will continue to support them as best we can. We currently offer on-demand classes only, but would like to offer them the opportunity for the face-to-face classes on line in the future.”
　In addition, he explained that we have begun offering three lessons of the AI course to 36 students in the National Aerospace University and the National Economics University, and 495 students from four universities are prepared to register for seven lessons of the AI course.
　Sergiy Malkovich, Vice President of National Aerospace University, said” We are grateful to the University of Yamanashi for their prompt response. This project has spread in Ukraine and told to the government, and is about to become a major project at the international level.”
　He further explained that the situation is very dangerous, as the shelling from Russia has also destroyed buildings on campus.
　He reported that students and people living near the university who cannot evacuate out of the country are taking shelter in the university’s basement, and the university is working together to support people’s livelihood.
　Alyona Veprytska, a first-year master’s student at the National Aerospace University who is taking classes in Poland, where she took the refuge, said”
　The on-demand method is very convenient. I look forward to communicating face-to-face with my instructor. The lesson is very interesting. I would like to take the lessons of different field.
　I want to create a brighter future for Ukraine.”
　In closing, Vice President Mao Xiaoyang, Director of the Center for International Exchange, gave a message to the Ukrainian side, “Let us work together to create a bright future and peace for our students.”