General Assembly

ABEST21 International General Assembly was held on March every year at our member institutions. Agenda included items discussed at the Board Meeting; financial statements, draft budget, ratification of accreditation and Good Practice Award, and draft of partial amendment of ABEST21 Quality Assurance system.

ABEST21 International General Assembly 2024

ABEST21 International Annual Meeting 2024 was held on March 18 and 19, 2024 at 12F, Souken-building, Aoyama Campus, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.

12F Souken-building, Aoyama Gakuin University
JICA Tsukuba Center
JAXA Tsukuba Space Center

The program schedule of the assembly was as follows:

  • ABEST21 International Annual Report Agenda
    -On the ABEST21 International Accomplishments 2023
    -On the ABEST21 International Financial Statement 2023
    -On the ABEST21 International Budget 2024
  • Granting the New School Membership Certificate
  • Granting the ABEST21 International Accreditation Certificate March 2023
  • Granting the KAIZEN Award
  • Memorial Session
  • School Presentations

The Annual Meeting was held in-person just like the last year and about forty representatives from ABEST21 International school members participated the meeting. The meeting began with an accomplishment report for fiscal year 2023, a report on the financial statement, and a business plan for fiscal year 2024. ABEST21 International President Dr. Fumio ITOH granted Accreditation Certificates to representative of the accredited schools and crystal trophies to KAIZEN AWARD to the winning schools. The accredited schools and KAIZEN Award winning schools made their presentations. They introduced about their schools and shared knowledge obtained through ABEST21 Accreditation as well as their experiences through ABEST21 KAIZEN. In the day 2, a study tour of Tsukuba was held. With the cooperation of the Japan International Corporate Agency (JICA), we visited the JICA Training Center and gained various insights there. Also, we visited the JAXA Tsukuba Space Center (Tsukuba Center of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency).

ABEST21 International General Assembly archive

March 9 to 11, 2023 at Kyoto University

Mar.16,2022 (online)

Mar.23,2021(online)

Mar.6,2019 at Shinagawa Season Terrace

Mar.6,2018 at Shinagawa Season Terrace

Mar.8, 2017 at Sony University, Japan

Mar.2, 2016 at Sony University, Japan

Mar.6, 2015 at Waseda University, Japan

Mar.8, 2014 at University of Tsukuba, Japan

March 9, 2013 at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan

Mar.2, 2012 at Nissan Global Headquarters, Japan

March 3, 2011 at Fuji Xerox, Japan

March 5, 2010 at Nippon Steel Corporation, Japan

Marc 5, 2009 at Aogaku Kaikan, Japan

June 13, 2008 at Seoul National University, Korea

June 21, 2007 at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan

June 6, 2006 at Minami Aoyama Building, Japan