Activities

• “Dialogues for Future Research and Science with Early Career Researchers,” an interdisciplinary forum with the L-INSIGHT Fellows as session chairs.
  • The topic of each session is proposed by the Fellow(s) serving as its chair(s).
  • Each session is attended by a senior researcher who serves as a commentator.
  • The Kyoto University European Center and three German institutions (Heidelberg University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and University of Göttingen) cooperate in finding researchers suited to each session.
  • As of FY2023, 16 L-INSIGHT Fellows served as session chairs, 65 researchers participated from 12 German institutions, and 292 people attended as audience members.
• Fellows individually visit researchers based in Europe with whom they wish to establish a connection.
• Opportunities to serve as a speaker at the German-Japanese Universities President’s Conference (every two years)

Schedule

Outcome Examples

• New collaborative research projects:
  • “Estimating heterogenous treatment effect” – University Medical Center Göttingen
  • “Survival strategies of microorganisms living on plant leaves and their application to agriculture” – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Jointly hosted seminars in Germany / Japan:
  • “Approaches in Environmental and Wildlife Conservation” – Max Planck Institute, etc.
  • “Advances in Imaging Across Micro and Macro Scales” –University Hospital Erlangen, etc.