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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).

Call: Universität Hamburg

Open Topic- Professorships (W2)

[Deadline: 2021/10/14] The University of Hamburg invites applications for three Open Topic Professorships in the profile initiatives “Violence and Security”, “Marketing and Communication” and “Mechanisms of Change”.

First DFG-Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize online conference

“‘Patient Involvement’ and data protection in medicine and medical research and related Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI)”

The DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and DWIH Tokyo held the first DFG-Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize online conference in honour of Prize winner 2020, Dr. Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor (Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities) on 17 September 2021. Focussing on ethical, legal, social and data issues, researchers from Germany and Japan discussed current developments in biomedicine and medical research based on a multidisciplinary approach.

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

Why the German Innovation Powerhouse NRW is Important to Japan

September 24, 2021 [by Toru Kumagai] On June 16, 2021, the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Düsseldorf hosted the NRW-Japan Summit meeting. The event saw participants present various examples of innovations from both Japan and Germany, along with panel discussions among businesspeople.