Delegation from Officials of Universities and the Government in India Visited and Toured the University of Tsukuba

Thirty officials of the university and the government in India visited and toured the University of Tsukuba on January 22, 2019, as part of the "Japan-Asia Youth Exchange Program in Science (SAKURA Science)*" organized by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).

First, the delegation that consists of younger faculty members at Indian Institutes of Technology (15 institutes) and Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (5 institutes), and junior officers at the Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Ministry of Science and Technology in India heard a lecture delivered by Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai, Executive Research Director at the Center for Cybernics Research; subsequently, moved to the Core Laboratory for Algae Biomass and Energy System R&D Center (ABES), then listened to a lecture delivered by Professor Makoto M. Watanabe, Director of the Center.

Their visit was a great opportunity to further promote exchanges between India and Japan at the University of Tsukuba.

* This program aims at raising the interest of Asian youths toward leading Japanese science and technologies by facilitating visits of competent Asian youths to Japan through the close collaboration of industry-academia-government, and is expected to increase future collaborative research and exchange.

Commemorative group photo at the Center for Cybernics Research

A lecture delivered by Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai at the Center for Cybernics Research

A lecture delivered by Professor Makoto M. Watanabe at the Core Laboratory for Algae Biomass and Energy System R&D Center (ABES)