The “Eco-Internship” is a program implemented by the Ministry of the Environment since 2007, under which university students (including postgraduates) are dispatched to the environmental management departments of companies to undertake work experience in environment-related jobs. In September 2008, as in 2007, AGC Chemicals Company accepted two students under the program for two weeks with a view to contributing to the development of environment-conscious human resources. They learned chemicals management and environmental activities, and also received training on the effective use of energy and resources in the manufacturing process of pharmaceuticals at Asahi Glass Kashima Plant.

Trainees compiling a report about the two-week experience

The AGC Group has been running a course in glass technology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok since 1990. Chulalongkorn University is a prestigious national university that was founded in 1916 and has as many as several tens of thousands of students. The Glass Technology Course is part of the core curriculum for third-year students studying materials science at the Faculty of Science. The course, which takes place for two hours a week in the latter half of the school year, covers glass manufacturing and related technologies and is presented by Japanese and Thai employees of AGC Group companies located in Thailand. While it is sometimes difficult for these employees to prepare and deliver lectures at the same time as carrying out their other duties, it provides them with a valuable opportunity to teach at a university and interact with local Thai people outside of their work. The AGC Group intends to continue running the course.

Chulalongkorn University

In the fall of 1989, Asahi Glass and the Asahi Glass Foundation jointly donated 500,000 dollars to the University of Oklahoma in support of the University's celebrations of its 100th anniversary in 1990. Combining our donation with another donation of 500,000 dollars from an educational fund managed by the Oklahoma state government, the University set up the Asahi Glass Chair in Chemical Engineering. Asahi Glass has been participating in exchanges with the State of Oklahoma and the University of Oklahoma since it acquired shares and joint management rights in Woodward Iodine Corporation, an Oklahoma-based company producing iodine, in 1984. (Asahi Glass has since been participating in the management of the company in cooperation with Ise Chemicals Corporation, another AGC Group company.) The Chair was established as a result of these long-term exchanges. The University's School of Chemical Engineering is engaged in basic and application research into surface active agents and the development of technologies using ion exchange membranes, both of which are closely related to Asahi Glass's chemicals business.