EURAXESS Japan Tour 2017 @ Keio University

The sixth edition of the EURAXESS Japan Tour 2017 will take place at Keio University on 25 September. This edition will, in a first time, present an overview of the opportunities for mobility of individual researchers at all career steps through the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) ITN (for PhDs) and IF (for postdocs and above) as well as the European Research Council (for excellent researchers) programmes; before providing a focus on the opportunities for larger and longer term cooperative research projects through the MSCA RISE programme and through the top-down, topic-oriented, Horizon 2020 cooperative research and innovation funding programme.

Venue: Keio University Hiyoshi Campus

Language: Japanese (materials in English)

Further information and registration (required):http://www.rcp.keio.ac.jp/event/euraxessen (English) http://www.rcp.keio.ac.jp/event/euraxess (Japanese)

 Programme (tentative):

        13:00 Welcome address

                      Prof. Sasase, Deputy Director General, Headquarters for Research Coordination and Administration, Keio University

        13:05 About the importance of international cooperation for your career and for your research projects

                      Dr. Py, EURAXESS Japan

        13:15 European programmes for individual researchers: MSCA ITN (PhD), MSCA IF (postdoc), ERC (mid career PI)  [includes Q&A session]

                      Dr. Py, EURAXESS Japan

         14:15 Short break

         14:30 European programmes for collaborative projects, at the research team or whole institution scale: MSCA RISE and Horizon 2020 [includes Q&A session]

                      Mr. Yamada, Horizon 2020 National Contact Point for Japan

                      Dr. Kuczynski, Delegation of the EU to Japan 

         16:00 Closed strategic discussion session (Keio Univ. staff only)

         17:00 End