JICE held a Final Report Presentation and a Farewell Party for interns from Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MI) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on July 4, 2014. H.E. Mr. Saeed Ali Yousef Al Nowais, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the UAE to Japan, Mr. Hideyuki Urata, Director for Petroleum Policy, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), and other distinguished guests from the concerned companies attended the Farewell party to congratulate the interns on their achievement.

This is the third year to implement the JICE internship program for MI. The duration was about 2 months, and the part of the program was implemented in UAE. The 8 interns have participated in Japanese language classes in UAE last April, completed JICE foundation program and their field internship at each concerned company in Japan from May 19, 2014.

The 8 participants were interned with JGC Corporation, Chiyoda Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation respectively for 1 month from May 27, 2014. After they finished their field internship, they shared their final report to all the concerned accepting companies at Final Report Presentation, and were given certificates by Ms. Masako Kishimoto, Vice President of JICE.

Final presentation by interns Ms Ms. Hajer Al Yammashi (Center)

Awarding of the certifications by Ms. Masako Kishimoto, Vice President of JICE (Left)
Ms. Muna Otaibi, the intern from MI (Right）

At the end of the Farewell party, the interns showed their appreciations to each concerned company and every person who gave effort to this program.

The program this year has been successfully brought to completion thanks to cooperation of every person from concerned companies. JICE will continue its efforts to make further success next year for all the people involved with the cooperation with MI as well as METI and the concerned companies.

Farewell party
(Center) H.E. Mr. Saeed Ali Yousef Al Nowais, UAE Ambassador and Ms. Masako Kishimoto, Vice President of JICE, Interns, (Right) Mr. Hideyuki Urata, Director for Petroleum Policy of METI.

Naoko Kobari (Ms.), Yuji Kawamoto (Mr.)
Overseas Cooperation Division
International Training Department