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The main focus of the webinar is to highlight successful collaborative projects between ASPIRE in Japan and HORIZON EUROPE in the European Union. The projects are introduced by the Japanese and European contributors who will not only provide best practice examples for international research cooperation but also answer questions live.
REGISTER FOR THE WEBINAR
Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem (ASPIRE) aims to provide sufficient funds for large-scale collaborative joint research projects in cutting-edge fields, to be conducted at the initiative of the Japanese government in collaboration with advanced countries with high standards of science and technology. In cooperation with funding agencies in Japan and the partner country, this program provides strategic support for international joint research with flexible research budgets and support periods. Through this international research collaboration, Japanese researchers will be encouraged to join the world’s leading scientific community. The exchange and connection of excellent young researchers from Japan and partner countries will also be strengthened. This will promote international talent mobility and circulation, and contribute to long-term collaborative networks.
Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation. Following the Multiannual Financial Framework Midterm Review (MTR) decision, the indicative funding amount for Horizon Europe for the period 2021-2027 is EUR 93.5 billion. It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth. The programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges. It supports creating and better dispersing of excellent knowledge and technologies. It creates jobs, fully engages the EU’s talent pool, boosts economic growth, promotes industrial competitiveness and optimises investment impact within a strengthened European Research Area. Legal entities from the EU and associated countries can participate. The programme's predecessor, Horizon 2020 was the EU's research and innovation funding programme from 2014-2020 with a budget of nearly €80 billion.
DATE: 4th March 2025
TIME: 8:00-10:00CET / 16:00-18:00JST
PLATFORM: Zoom
LANGUAGE: English
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Agenda
TIME | EVENT |
16:00-16:03JST/8:00-8:03CET | INTRODUCTION Judit Erika Magyar Country Representative EURAXESS Japan |
16:03-16:10JST/8:03-8:10CET |
OPENING REMARKS Atsushi Arakawa Director Office of ASPIRE Department of International Affairs Japan Science and Technology Agency
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16:10-16:20JST/8:10-8:20CET | VIDEO INTERVIEW Maria Leptin President European Research Council |
16:20-16:30JST/8:20-8:30CET |
“ASPIRE Introduction and JST’s cooperation with Horizon Europe” Kenta Takei Officer Department of International Affairs Japan Science and Technology Agency
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16:30-16:40JST/8:30-8:40CET |
“Horizon Europe: An Overview of Opportunities” Fumiko Oda National Contact Point for Horizon Europe EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
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16:40-16:55JST/8:40-8:55CET |
Energy Project “Manufacturing of ion conducting membrane applied for novel intermediate temperature electrolyzer for carbon neutral society”
Tatsumi Ishihara Professor International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Kyushu University
Funding: Helmholtz Funding Wilhelm Meulenberg Head of the Department Institute of Energy Materials and Devices 2 Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Funding: Horizon 2020; UKRI Stephen Skinner Ceres/RAEng Research Chair and Professor of Materials Chemistry Imperial College London
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16:55-17:10JST/8:55-9:10CET |
AI&Information Project “Building Mathematical Foundation for Cyber Physical Dynamical Systems: Interdisciplinary Research and Human Resource Development on Control with Prediction and Learning”
Yoshio Ebihara Professor Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering Kyushu University
Funding: ERC Eindhoven University of Technology
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17:10-17:25JST/9:10-9:25CET |
Materials Project “Creating 3D terahertz metamaterials through the combination of laser micro-processing and carbon materials”
Kuniaki Konishi Associate Professor Graduate School of Science, Institute for Photon Science and Technology The University of Tokyo
Funding: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Yuri Svirko Professor Department of Physics and Mathematics University of Eastern Finland
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17:25-17:40JST/9:25-9:40CET |
Materials Project "Development of highly efficient luminescent dendrimer materials for sustainable light-emitting devices”
Ken Albrecht Associate Professor Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering Kyushu University
Funding: ERC Rubén D. Costa Professor Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials Technical University of Munich
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17:40-17:55JST/9:40-9:55CET | Q&A |
17:55-18:00JST/9:55-10:00CET |
CLOSING REMARKS Jean-Eric Paquet Ambassador Embassy of the European Union to Japan
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Organiser
- Name
- Japan Science and Technology Agency; EURAXESS Japan