Mr. Krishna Prasad Shrethsa (Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant at Department of Mechanical Engineering) and Mr. Vijit Atreya (Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant at Department of Computer Science and Engineering) have attended Invitation Programme for Science and Technological Human Resources under the Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youth (JENESYS) Programme 2009 in Japan from Nov 1 – 14, 2009. During the courtesy call on Ministry of Foreign Affairs, , Mr. Krishna Prasad Shrestha delivered special speech on the behalf of all the participating nations from SAARC. During the program, 4 participants have represented . The rest two participants (Mr. Kaji Ram Karki and Mr. Soyuz Gautam) were from .

The objective of the programme was to establish network among Japanese and SAARC Science and Technological human resources and also to establish network within the Science and Technological human resources from SAARC nations. The participating nations were (3 participants), (6 participants), (4 participants), (3 participants) and (3 participants). During the program, the participants visited various cities, institutions and industries of . The cities they have visited are . The institutions they have visited are Nagoya Institute of Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology and . They have also visited Yamazaki Mazak Corporation, , Sumitomo Metal Industries – Kashima Steel Works and Yamanaka Engineering Company at . The participants have also visited , Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institute and various historic and cultural sites of . According to the participants from , the program remained successful in fulfilling its objectives. Kathmandu University thanks Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan and Japan International Cooperation Center (JICE) and all the facilitators of this program.