On February 24, 2014, Kick-off Symposium of MEXT Program for Promoting the Enhancement of Research Universities “Strategy of International Development through Collaboration between Research Universities and Corporations” was held successfully at JP Tower Hall, and visited by 140 attendees including sales and marketing representatives from corporations.
We received numerous inquiries on presentation panels by URA and poster presentations of major research centers of University of Tsukuba, which shows high level of public interest in Industry-Academia collaborations.

On February 21, 2014, the University of Tsukuba President, Kyosuke Nagata and 42 members of faculty and staff attended the 1st National Taiwan University and University of Tsukuba Joint Faculty Conference as one of the activities to encourage further international collaborative research.

At National Taiwan University in Taipei, over 200 faculties, staff and students participated including Taiwan University President Pan-Chyr. The conference was consisted with two parts of plenary session and section meetings. At the plenary session both universities discussed the educational system, followed by presentations of their research. On the day two, there were section meetings of different fields of Humanities, Social Sciences, Life & Agriculture Sciences, Medicine and Global Health, and Nursing.

　　　　　　Participants　　　　　　　　　　　      Left: President Nagata　　　　　　                    Vice President Ae introducing educational system
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　             Right: President Pan-Chyr Yang　　　　
　
　　　　　　　Prof. Sankai　　　　　　                   Visiting Intel-NTU Connecter Conteext Computing Center　　　　　Prof. Watanabe
　　presenting medical robot HAL　　　                   4th right : Vice President Miake　　　　　　 　                 talking about algal biomass
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　                          4th left：Director Jene Hsu

U Tsukuba is going to sign a new agreement with the University of East Anglia  to promote friendship and co-operation in March.　 In commemoration of this agreement, U Tsukuba will hold the Kickoff Symposium for Tsukuba-Norwich Collaborative Research Networks.

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Date and Time: 14 March 2014 ,13:00
Venue: Laboratory of Advanced Research A, Room 110, University of Tsukuba
Symposium: No prior registration required
Banquet: Please e-mail at “yasumura.yuki.gnun.tsukuba.ac.jp” to register by March 6th 2014.

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More detailed information is available in the leaflet

*Norwich Research Park is a partnership between the University of East Anglia and four world-renowned research institutes including John Innes Centre and The Sainsbury Laboratory, located in England, UK.