{"id":7497,"date":"2016-07-14T09:39:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T00:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rib.okayama-u.ac.jp\/?post_type=english&#038;p=7497"},"modified":"2021-04-15T13:33:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T04:33:28","slug":"20160714-1e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rib.okayama-u.ac.jp\/english\/information\/20160714-1e\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union Ambassador to Japan visits Kurashiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Head of the European Union Delegation to Japan, Ambassador Mr. Viorel Isticioaia-Budura, accompanied by his wife made a short visit at the institute on June-28, 2016. During his stay at IPSR, the EU Ambassador was informed by the IPSR director, Professor Masahiko Maekawa about the ongoing work and projects in the institute that target development of stress resilient crops as practical solutions for future food crisis caused by extensive population growth. While appreciating the importance and excellence of IPSR research, Mr. Isticioaia-Budura showed his genuine intentions to inform relevant sections for research and education within the EU that would further promote exchange between IPSR (Okayama University) and EU countries in the various areas of plant stress research. 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While appreciating the importance and excellence of IPSR research, Mr. Isticioaia-Budura showed his genuine intentions to inform relevant sections for research and education within the EU that would further promote exchange between IPSR (Okayama University) and EU countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>European Union Ambassador to Japan visits Kurashiki - Institute of Plant Science and Resources<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rib.okayama-u.ac.jp\/english\/information\/20160714-1e\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"European Union Ambassador to Japan visits Kurashiki - Institute of Plant Science and Resources\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Head of the European Union Delegation to Japan, Ambassador Mr. Viorel Isticioaia-Budura, accompanied by his wife made a short visit at the institute on June-28, 2016. 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