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Call for participants

Entrepreneurship Explorer Ruhr

Deadline: 2021/08/01 – The Entrepreneurship Explorer Ruhr 2021 offers international and entrepreneurial-minded early career researchers in cyber security the possibility to implement their innovative business ideas and explore the regional start-up ecosystem of one of the most active start-up communities in cyber security.

Call: BMBF / JST

Funding call for green hydrogen research cooperation between Germany and Japan

Deadline: 2021/09/10: BMBF and JST funding will be provided for cooperation between German and Japanese partners from science and industry (2+2) in international collaborative research projects in accordance with Module C of the announcement of regulations for funding international projects on the topic of green hydrogen (for further information, see link below).

Overview: German Embassy Tokyo

Quantum Technology – Research in Japan

The German Embassy Tokyo has compiled information on quantum technology research in Japan. The overview summarizes the current situation as follows:

Connecting East and West – A Short Interview with …

Sasaki Tetsuya and Michael Hechtel

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 Sasaki Tetsuya, Senior Director of the Saitama City Foundation for Business Creation (SFBC), and Michael Hechtel, Research Assistant at the Institute for Factory Automation and Production Systems at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg.

Report: Virtual Symposium

Coping with the Crisis – The Psychosocial Impact of the Pandemic

The Corona crisis has affected societies in Japan and Germany in many ways. In addition to the health consequences, the pandemic also brings with it significant social and psychological effects such as unemployment and growing poverty, depression, loneliness, and conflicts in the home environment.

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

The Future of Work: New Technologies and the Workplace

June 16, 2021 [by Toru Kumagai] The ongoing COVID-19 crisis that began in spring 2020 is significantly changing how people work in Germany and Japan. The pace of digitalisation, the shift to working remotely, the spread of artificial intelligence (AI), and the adoption of robots are all accelerating. In particular, in Germany the idea that telecommuting should be retained as one working arrangement even after the COVID-19 crisis is over is a powerful one. Moreover, with the further spread and propagation of the oncoming Fourth Industrial Revolution (the so-called “Industry 4.0”), expanding telecommuting beyond the companies in the financial services and information technology (IT) sectors into manufacturing industry is becoming an important issue.

Call & Job vacancies

International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) / DONES (DEMO-Oriented Neutron Source)

[Deadline: 2021/06/30 at 23:59 GMT+2] The Research, Training and Mobility Programme – IFMIF-DONES is accepting applications for 13 positions (also in Germany and Japan) aimed at university graduates and doctoral degree holders to carry out a research, training and mobility programme at international research centres and laboratories related to the IFMIF-DONES project.