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A new International Research Laboratory opens in Japan, the IRL EARLY, dedicated to the biodiversity of coral reefs
CNRS and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) are taking a new step forward in their collaboration by signing, on Monday 7 October 2024 in Kyoto, the creation of the international research laboratory (IRL) EARLY (An Eco-Evo-Devo perspective on corAl Reef fishes Life cYcle). This laboratory will be directed and coordinated by Vincent Laudet and will focus in particular on the study of the life cycle of coral reef fish, with particular attention paid to the anthropogenic pressures affecting these fragile ecosystems.
The aim of this IRL is to explore the complex interactions between the developmental biology, evolutionary biology and ecology of coral fish, using the clownfish as a model. By focusing on the key stages of the life cycle, from the pelagic larval phase to the transition to juvenile and adult life on reefs, this multidisciplinary project will shed new light on the fundamental biological processes influenced by hormonal and environmental factors.
The signing of this agreement marks a turning point in Franco-Japanese cooperation to preserve marine ecosystems, with promising spin-offs for science and the sustainable management of biodiversity.
Original article by CNRS Biology (fr):
https://www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/le-cnrs-ouvre-un-laboratoire-international-au-japon-dedie-la-biodiversite-des-recifs
About CNRS Biology:
https://www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr
About OIST:
https://www.oist.jp
CNRS-JSPS-JST Celebration Event for the 50th Anniversary of France-Japan Scientific Cooperation (Japan)
On Tuesday July 2, 1974, a major scientific cooperation agreement between France and Japan was signed by the French Ambassador at the time, Mr. François de Laboulaye, and the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time, Mr. Masayoshi Ohira. This agreement set out a general framework for scientific cooperation, involving joint research programs, exchanges of scientists, joint seminars and common areas of interest. 50 years later, France-Japan science and technology cooperation is still producing high-quality science that has an extraordinary impact on our society.
To celebrate this anniversary, CNRS, JSPS and JST, leading STI institutes of both countries, are organizing a one-day event on Wednesday October 9, 2024 at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), Tokyo, Japan.
The event will provide a forum for dialogue among diverse stakeholders to further strengthen and accelerate France-Japan cooperation in order to contribute to the sustainable prosperity of both countries and beyond, in the midst of various global challenges.
About the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS):
https://www.jsps.org/
About the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST):
https://www.jst.go.jp/
Invitation-only event
A Japanese springboard program for researchers from North America and Europe: the JSPS Summer Program (Japan)
On August 26th, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) celebrated the end of yet another edition of their Summer Program. Carried out in partnership with The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), the program provides opportunities for young pre- and post-doctoral researchers from North America and Europe to receive an orientation on Japanese culture and research systems. It aims at initiating early scientists’ career, by pursuing research under the guidance of host researchers at a Japanese university or research institute over a period of two months during summer. Besides, the JSPS Summer Program also seeks cooperation from its overseas partners in recruiting candidates for the program, a role in which the CNRS takes the lead for France.
Ending this particular summer means ending their Japanese experience for the 17 French candidates. The ceremony provided a time to reunite together, to reflect on their past two months and of course to discuss about their respective scientific projects…
Meet Clément, Diluka and Eva, three of the French 2024 fellows in this longform article!
To read the full article: https://tokyo.office.cnrs.fr/a-japanese-springboard-program-for-researchers-from-north-america-and-europe-the-jsps-summer-program/
The 2025 call will be announced soon! https://www.jsps.org/latest_calls/2023/10/jsps-summer-programme-2024.html
The 'Journée Francophone de la Recherche' 2024 is also celebrating 50 years of French-Japanese scientific cooperation! (Japan)
The Association of French-speaking students and researchers in Japan, the French Embassy in Japan, the CNRS Office for Northeast Asia in Tokyo and the French Institute for Research on Japan (MFJ-IFRJ, UMIFRE 19 MEAE-CNRS) are organizing the Journée Francophone de la Recherche 2024 (JFR 2024) on Friday November 1, 2024 at the Maison franco-japonaise (MFJ), Tokyo. A hybrid format, the event will be simultaneously broadcast on Zoom.
Since 1997, this annual meeting has brought together the community of French-speaking researchers and students established in Japan, from all disciplines and nationalities. The aim of the JFR is to enable researchers, students, PhD students, engineers, institutions, company representatives and other interested parties to meet and discuss their activities in Japan.
Participation is free, open and accessible to all, but registration is compulsory via our online form.
– Registration for speakers (presentation/flash-talk/poster proposals) is open until Friday, September 20, 2024.
– Listener registration is open until Wednesday, October 30, 2024.
More information and registration on:
https://www.sciencescope.org/appel-a-communications-jfr-2024/
2 researchers from the LIMMS recently published a new book on Engineering Thermodynamics (Japan)
Sebastian Volz and Jose Ordonez-Miranda, both from the IRL LIMMS (Laboratory for Integrated Micro-Mechatronic Systems) are the co-authors of a new book called “Heat Transport Driven by Surface Electromagnetic Waves” published by Springer.
About this book:
“This book leads the reader from the well-established wave description of polaritons to their particle description to quantify the polariton contribution to the heat transport along polar and metallic nanofilms, nanowires, and cavities. Over the last few decades, the surface electromagnetic waves propagating along the interface of metals (plasmon polaritons) and polar dielectrics (phonon polaritons) have been widely studied to generate and guide energy currents. And while the optical generation of these polaritons at a given frequency is well known and exploited nowadays, their thermal excitation and propagation in a broad frequency spectrum, explored in detail in this volume, have only more recently been emerging as an effective way to enhance conductive and radiative heat currents. Written by the foremost experts and researchers in nanoscale heat transport, this book consolidates in a single comprehensive view, the findings on surface electromagnetic waves as the 4th heat carriers, besides phonons, photons, and electrons.“
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-66024-5
Learn more about the IRL LIMMS (en):
https://limms-tokyo.org/
The 7th Art of Cinema meets the Art of Mathematics -- encounter of many spheres, between France and Japan, and between mathematicians and a general audience. (Japan)
This year, the IRN AHGT “Arithmetic and Homotopic Galois Theory” organised a screening of the film ‘Le théorème de Marguerite’ at the Institut Francais du Kansai Kyoto, with the aim of exposing multi-cultural integration in science, and in particular to women in pure mathematics. As a result, a paper has recently been published in the journal ‘数学通信’ of the Japanese Mathematical Society (MSJ).
To read the paper (jp): https://www.mathsoc.jp/assets/file/publications/tushin/2902/2902collas.pdf
Learn more about the IRN AHGT (fr): https://ahgt.math.cnrs.fr/
A series of lectures about Bergsonism (Japan)
Caterina Zanfi, CNRS researcher and french coordinator of the IRN GlobPhilBergson, is organizing across Japan a series of three lectures focusing on Bergsonism at the beginning of September.
This lecture series provides an important opportunity to directly hear about Dr. Zanfi’s research achievements. It is expected that the lectures and discussions will foster fruitful intellectual exchanges between Japanese researchers of Bergson. This event aims at contributing to the development of new perspectives on Bergson’s philosophy and deepen international academic dialogues.
For more information about the event: https://matterandmemory.jimdofree.com/english-1/2024-zanfi-lecture-series/
Learn more about the IRN GlobPhilBerson (fr): https://bergson.hypotheses.org/1883
"France Excellence Japon" Scholarships 2025 (Japan)
The French Embassy in Japan has just announced the launch of the “France Excellence Japon” Scholarships programme 2025.
This programme is a major tool for academic and scientific cooperation between France and Japan, supporting mobility of Japanese students and young researchers to higher education and research establishments in France.
Deadline: 20 November 2024
For more information: https://jp.ambafrance.org/Bourses-France-Excellence-fr
ILANCE IRL welcomes 9 students from Ecole Polytechnique (Japan)
Specialising in elementary particle physics, cosmology and astrophysics, the ILANCE laboratory at the University of Tokyo and the CNRS is hosting nine École polytechnique students on a four-month research placement this year.
The students will each work on a research project and learn about scientific research methods in the physics of the two infinities at this international laboratory based on the campus of the University of Tokyo. A great opportunity for these Polytechnique engineers in the making.
From Ecole Polytechnique’s full article on: www.polytechnique.edu/actualites/neuf-eleves-ingenieurs-de-lx-en-stage-scientifique-luniversite-de-tokyo
International Emerging Actions (IEA) call for projects – 2024
The IEA campaign, aimed at exploring new fields of research and international partnerships, is open until September 30, 2024.
International Emerging Actions are “PI-to-PI” projects whose aim is to explore new fields of research and new international partnerships through short-term missions, the organization of working meetings, and the initiation of initial joint research work on a shared scientific project. These actions last for 2 years.
International Emerging Actions are aimed at staff involved in research in a CNRS unit.
Project leaders are invited to apply to the annual call for proposals launched by the CNRS Europe and International Division (DEI) in all disciplines, and to submit their applications on the CNRS NOA platform until September.
To support the CNRS’s scientific policy, the terms of the call may include specific thematic or geographic priorities for each institute, applicable to the units of the said institutes.
A letter of support from the foreign partner is expected at the time of application, attesting to possible co-financing for project implementation.
More information about the application: https://international.cnrs.fr/actualite/ouverture-de-lappel-a-projets-international-emerging-actions-iea-2024/
PHC SAKURA 2025 is OPEN! (Japan)
Sakura is the Franco-Japanese Partenariat Hubert Curien (PHC), a cooperation programme for science and technology. It is implemented in Japan by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and in France by the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE) and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR).
This annual call for projects is aimed at researchers based in a French research in France, who wish to develop a collaboration with a partner in Japan.
Application deadline: 3 September 2024
More information on the Campus France website: https://www.campusfrance.org/fr/sakura
EIG CONCERT-Japan 11th call (Japan)
EIG CONCERT-Japan has announced the opening of its 11th joint call for proposals titled Digital Transformations and Robotics in Sustainable Agriculture.
Research projects with an innovative dimension will be funded for a period of three years. The research projects are expected to have mobility and networking dimensions apart from the core research component. Each project consortium applying for this call should consist of at least three partners, including one from Japan and two from two different European countries participating in the call.
Proposals from interested researchers are now accepted, starting from Tuesday, May 14 until Tuesday, July 23rd (10.00 CEST).
More information about the call: https://concert-japan.eu/open-call/2024/
Workshop “Bi-dimensional carbon materials and beyond: synthesis, properties and biomedical applications” with the IRL MULTIDIM (Japan)
The International Research Project entitled MULTIDIM (CNRS Laboratory “Immunology, Immunopathology and Therapeutic Chemistry” (UPR3572) and Okayama University) has organized in June the multidisciplinary International Workshop “Bi-dimensional carbon materials and beyond: synthesis, properties and biomedical applications” in Japan (Yubara Communication Center, Maniwa city).
Chaired by Alberto Bianco and Yuta Nishina, this event brought together twenty-seven French and Japanese senior scientists and young researchers (Master, PhD students and Assistant Professors) to discuss the recent advances on the use of nanomaterials and nanoparticles in the fields of cancer therapy, imaging, biosensing, biomaterials, dentistry, and environmental toxicity. Three French (Reiko Oda, Ala Le Goff, and Emmanuel Flahaut) and five Japanese invited scientists (Naoki Komatsu, Eri Hirata, Yuta Takano, Takuro Niidome, and Eijiro Miyako) presented their recent findings, alternated by nine orals, and contributed to the scientific discussions around the posters presented by the students and Assistant Professors.
These two fruitful days were aimed also to reinforce current collaborations, to nurture new partnerships and the possibility of future young scientists’ and students’ exchanges between French and Japanese Laboratories.
3rd call for the CNRS-University of Tokyo PhD Joint Program (Japan)
The third call for proposals of the CNRS-University of Tokyo PhD Joint Program is now open!
This program aims to fund joint research projects between French and Japanese researchers for 3 years and includes funding for PhD students. Up to 5 projects will be selected.
This call is open to, but not limited to, research projects in the following focus areas:
- Social Science
- Data-driven interdisciplinary challenges in Earth observation & environment
- AI for Science, Science for AI
- Energy transition
The focus areas will also include projects in collaboration with CNRS-UTokyo International Research Laboratories (LIMMS, JFLI, ILANCE, DYNACOM and FJLMI).
Deadline: 12 January 2024
Read the call guidelines (pdf)
JSPS-CNRS calls are open! (Japan)
- Standard: up to 2 years (deadline: 6 November 2023)
- Short-Term: up to 1 year (deadline: 8 November 2023)
- Summer: 2 months (deadline: 12 December 2023)
Celebrating 30 years of collaboration with NSTC (Taiwan)
CNRS-UTokyo 2nd International Research Center meeting (Japan)
A new French-Japanese laboratory for particle physics (Japan)
The CNRS is joining forces with the KEK laboratory in Japan to create a new, cutting-edge international laboratory for particle physics. Its physicists will search for processes beyond the Standard Model, which is the current framework for describing the infinitely small. It is the CNRS’s 10th international laboratory in Japan.
1st Symposium of European Researchers in Japan
Sciencescope – the Association for French-speaking students and researchers in Japan, Ace Japón – Asociación de Científicos Españoles en Japón, the Association of Italian Researchers in Japan (AIRJ), and the German JSPS Alumni Association, are pleased to invite you to a European Research Day organized with the support of the Diplomatic Service of the European Union. The event will take place at Europea House in Tokyo on Saturday, October 21, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
International Conference on the Physics of the Two Infinites (Japan)
International Research Laboratory ILANCE between CNRS Institute of Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics and The University of Tokyo organizes a conference on the physics of the two infinites next spring on 27-30 March 2023 in Kyoto, Japan.
Scientific photo contest "Yugen Hidden Beauty of Science" 3rd edition (Japan)
The French-Japanese Scientific Photo Contest “Yugen Hidden Beauty of Science” organized by the Office for Science and Technology at the Embassy of France to Japan is now holding its 3rd edition!
The aim of this contest is to showcase French-Japanese scientific cooperation by presenting images from research or R&D projects involving French and Japanese researchers or engineers (including students).
Vote for your favorite image until late September!
Dr. Chang-Wen Wu, 🇹🇼Taiwan Minister of S&T, & 🇫🇷Dr. André Le Bivic, Director of @CNRSbiologie, opened the second day of the France-Taiwan Joint Workshop on Translational Research in Cancer and Biotech in Taipei.
More fruitful discussions today !
@Inserm @NTU_TW #NTU_CM #NTU_GSAT
Great success for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of France-Japan scientific relations. Thanks @antoine_petit_ CNRS Chairman & CEO for his visit and J. Maleval @CNRSinJapan for his excellent organization of this event in which ILANCE participated https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/34139/overview
This week-end in Taipei, top researchers from 🇫🇷 @CNRSbiologie @Inserm 🇹🇼@NTU_TW #NTU_GSAT #NTU_CM fruitfully exchange at the France-Taiwan Joint Workshop on Translational Research in Cancer and Biotech supported by #BFT
On the way to stronger collaboration !
Thank you for inviting the #AHGTmath project as one of the representatives of the France-Japan exchanges in pure mathematics; a stimulating event.