International Exchange : Japan-UK

UK - Japan Nanotechnology Symposium (Nov. 5, 2002)
—Recent Progress and Future Challenges— <nanonet-0203>

Cross-sectional collaboration such as academic collaboration, mutual enlightenment of basic application is necessary to facilitate nanotechnology research.

Furthermore, it is important to train young researchers by interdisciplinary experienced researchers.

Hiroo Imura (a member of Council for Science and Technology Policy and a former president of Kyoto University) and Science Minister Lord Sainsbury of Turville had agreed on facilitating cooperative research and training researchers between U.K. and Japan. Then Professor Mark E. Welland (University of Cambridge) and Professor Hiroyuki Sakaki (The University of Tokyo) held the central place in research cooperation promotional committee that was inaugurated between UK and Japan.

Through the committee, research cooperation and researchers to researchers exchange have been encouraged.

This symposium was an open symposium held by the core members of the committee and co-hosted by NANOLINK of the Tokyo University. It was held for the purpose of improving academic understanding by providing most advanced research by the fore front researchers of various fields of nanotechnology.

At the symposium, the organizations of Nanotech Research Centers in University of Cambridge and University of Oxford in England were introduced. Those are expected to progress researchers to researchers exchange between UK and Japan.