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Toru Kumagai’s report on R&D trends in Germany

Munich – Germany’s Silicon Valley A former beer brewery is now a development center for special semiconductors

October 22, 2021 [by Toru Kumagai] Munich, the capital of the southern German state of Bavaria (Bayern), has become home to a cluster of information technology (IT) companies. US-American high-tech companies like Apple, Google, and IBM have established bases of operation here, and are working to expand them. They have been doing so because Bavaria is home to numerous manufacturing and IT companies, and has a rich “knowledge infrastructure” thanks to the presence of numerous universities and research institutions.

DWIH Tokyo Interview

Saeka Uchino

Tohoku University, in partnership with DWIH Tokyo, the Tohoku Forum for Creativity (TFC), and the University Research Administration (URA) Center, on August 31, 2021, co-hosted Falling Walls Lab Sendai 2021 (FWL Sendai 2021). We interviewed Saeka Uchino, who took first place in the event. Uchino, who is in the doctoral program at Tohoku University, gave a presentation titled, “Falling the Wall of Milk Science and Immunology.”

Call: Research Academy Ruhr (RAR)

Research Explorer Ruhr

[Deadline 2021/10/15] Research Academy Ruhr (RAR), consisting of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, TU Dortmund University, and the University of Duisburg Essen, offers the Research Explorer Ruhr program for early postdoctoral researchers.

Connecting East and West – A Short Interview with …

Dr. Nora Kottmann

Our series “Connecting East and West – A Short Interview with …“ presents people involved in German-Japanese research collaborations – and their insights on how and where to cooperate successfully! This week we welcome Dr. Nora Kottmann, Principal Researcher at the German Institute of Japanese Studies (DIJ) and head of the research group “Methods and Methodologies”. Dr. Kottmann’s research mainly focuses on issues related to mobility, space, (not) belonging, intimacy and methods in social science research.

Call: BMBF and BMWI

Funding for international hydrogen projects

[Deadline 2021/10/31, 2021/12/31 and 2022/02/28] The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) are funding projects for the production and processing of green hydrogen as well as for the storage, transport and application of hydrogen in countries outside the EU – this also includes German-Japanese collaborations. Companies and research institutions can also submit funding applications for accompanying research projects, studies and training measures.

DWIH Tokyo Interview

Dr. Jonas Fischer

The Falling Walls Lab Sendai 2021 (FWL Sendai 2021), hosted by Tohoku University and co-hosted by the DWIH Tokyo, took place on August 31, 2021. We had a special interview with Dr. Jonas Fischer, an organiser from Tohoku University. He won the second prize with the presentation “Breaking the Wall of Energy-Efficient Data Storage” at the same event last year, in 2020. This year, he brought huge success to the event as an organiser. Meanwhile he works as a program coordinator at the Tohoku Forum for Creativity.

Event report

Falling Walls Lab Sendai 2021

The Falling Walls Lab Sendai 2021 international scientific communication event was held online August 31, 2021. Falling Walls Lab is a debate event for students and young researchers established by the Falling Walls Foundation in Berlin in 2009 on the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The event was co-sponsored by Tohoku University, the German Centre for Research and Innovation Tokyo (DWIH Tokyo), the Tohoku Forum for Creativity, and the Tohoku University Research Administration Center (URA Center).