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