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Call: DFG / JSPS

Joint Japanese-German Research Projects 2022 in Materials Science and Engineering for Energy Storage, Conversion, and Transport

[Deadline: 2022/06/08] As an expression of the long and fruitful scientific collaboration between their two countries, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) are pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for joint Japanese-German research proposals in the field of materials science and engineering for energy storage, conversion, and transport. The topics should correspond to the responsibility of the review boards (Fachkollegien) 405 and 406: Materials Science and Engineering.

Mulitlateral cooperations on H2 with Japanese and German partners

Sustainable Hydrogen Technology as Affordable and Clean Energy

Three projects with German partners have been selected in the call “Sustainable Hydrogen Technology as Affordable and Clean Energy” of the European Interest Group (EIG) Concert Japan (funding period FY2022 – FY2024).

Call: Research Academy Ruhr (RAR)

Research Explorer Ruhr

[Deadline: 2022/03/15] Research Academy Ruhr (RAR), the cross-university platform of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, TU Dortmund University, and the University of Duisburg-Essen for promoting early career researchers in the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr), offers the Research Explorer Ruhr program 2022 from June 19 to July 2, 2022.

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.”

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).

Event report

Visualize Your Research

How can we visualize scientific data as a way of informative storytelling? The Summer Series “Visualize Your Research” – a joint event of DWIH Tokyo and DWIH New York from June 22 to August 21, 2021 – addressed this and other questions. Students from the US, Germany and Japan had the opportunity to expand their knowledge in data visualization, to learn about applications to their own research and to build an international network.