The final programme and public versions of presentations (if available) from the RIKEN Europe Office 1st Anniversary Symposium can be accessed below.
Opening remarks
Opening remarks 1
Dr. Shigeo KOYASU
Executive Director, RIKEN
Opening remarks 2
H.E. Mr. Takeshi NAKANE
Ambassador for Science and Technology, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Part I: STI for future society
Keynote address – 1
“Horizon Europe and the challenge-driven approach”
Mr. Jean-Eric PAQUET
Director-General
DG RTD, European Commission
Keynote address – 2
“UKRI Programmes for International Research and Innovation”
Prof. Tim WHEELER
Director for International
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
RIKEN presentation – 1
“Creating sustainable resources through interdisciplinary research based on biology and chemistry”
Dr. Kazuo SHINOZAKI, Director
RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS)
RIKEN presentation – 2
“Conducting next Generation Research for Our Health”
Dr. Tadashi YAMAMOTO, Director
RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS)
RIKEN presentation – 3
“Quantum technologies at RIKEN”
Dr. Seigo TARUCHA,
Deputy Center Director
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)
Panel Discussion
Prof. Dame Wendy HALL (moderator)
Dr. Peter DROELL, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
Ms Emanuela Bellan, Head of Unit Interinstitutional, International relations and Outreach, JRC, European Commission
Mr. Shinichi MIZUMOTO, Director for International Affairs, Bureau of Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office
Mr. NITTA Koshi, Director, International Science and Technology Affairs Division, Science and Technology Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Dr. Kazuo SHINOZAKI, RIKEN
Dr. Tadashi YAMAMOTO, RIKEN
Dr. Seigo TARUCHA, RIKEN
Part II: Global partnership
RIKEN’s international strategy
Dr. Motoko KOTANI, Executive Director, RIKEN
Partnership with RIKEN 1
“The RIKEN-Max-Planck Joint Center for Chemical Systems Biology – Transcending Disciplines and Continents”
Prof. Dr. Peter H. SEEBERGER, Director
Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Partnership with RIKEN 2
“KI-RIKEN Collaboration: Problems from biomedicine, solutions from advanced genomics”
Juha KERE, MD, PhD
Professor of Molecular Genetics
Karolinska Institutet
Partnership with RIKEN 3
“CEA and RIKEN – HPC Collaboration for Exascale Computing”
Dr. Jean-Philippe NOMINÉ
Digital Project Manager, CEA
Dr. Satoshi MATSUOKA
Director, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS)
Concluding remarks
Dr. Motoko KOTANI, Executive Director, RIKEN
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