Research Support Projects at Osaka University

International Joint Research Promotion Program

As a measure for promoting its academic initiatives, Osaka University established the International Joint Research Promotion Program in 2013. In order to further enhance research quality and promote globalization of Osaka University, Osaka University supports advanced research between international researchers and Osaka University researchers. This program is a first step toward the establishment of international joint labs. These programs and lectures will give added impetus to the globalization of education and research at Osaka University.

International Joint Research Promotion Program (program started in 2015-16) [March 4, 2015]
Projects for promoting international joint research selected (program started in 2014-15) [March 19, 2014]
Projects for promoting international joint research selected [October, 11, 2013]

2019-20 selected projects Type A

Project Leader	Title, Organization	Joint Research Organization	Details
SAITO Yayoi	Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences	Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany) Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Germany) Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College (Sweden)	Details
FUKUI Kota	Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics	Gujarat National Law University (India)	Details
OHNO Yuko	Professor, Division of Health Science, Graduate School of Medicine	Chonnam National University (Korea) Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (Korea)	Details
OGOSHI Sensuke	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	Université de Caen Basse-Normandie (France)	Details
HAMAGUCHI Satoshi	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)	Details
YAMASHITA Hiromi	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	Université de Paris-VI Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (France)	Details
KURISU Genji	Professor, Institute for Protein Research	Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (Germany)	Details

2019-20 selected projects Type A-GKP

Project Leader	Title, Organization	Joint Research Organization	Details
KAITO Takashi	Lecturer, Graduate School of Medicine	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)	Details
ISO Hiroyasu	Professor, Graduate School of Medicine	University College of London (U.K)	Details
MURAKAMI Shumei	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	University of California (USA)	Details
IIJIMA Kazuhiro	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)	Details
KITA Michihiro	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	University College of London (UK)	Details
FUKUDA Takashi	Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)	Details
UMAKOSHI Hiroshi	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Science	University of California (USA)	Details
OKAMOTO Koji	Professor, Graduate school of Frontier Biosciences	University of Groningen (the Netherlands)	Details
SHIMOJO Shinji	Professor, Cybermedia Center	University of California (USA)	Details

2019-20 selected projects Type A-WPI

Project Leader	Title, Organization	Joint Research Organization	Details
NISHIDA Koji	Professor, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives	Cardiff University (UK)	Details
KITAGAWA Masahiro	Professor, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives	University of Waterloo (Canada)	Details
ASADA Minoru	Specially Appointed Professor, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives	Bogazici University (Turkey)	Details
OIWA Akira	Professor, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives	National Research Council of Canada (Canada)	Details

2019-20 selected projects Type B

Project Leader	Title, Organization	Joint Research Organization	Details
HATTORI Satoshi	Professor, Graduate School of Medicine	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany)	Details
HATTORI Satoshi	Professor, Graduate School of Medicine	University of London (UK)	Details
HATTORI Satoshi	Professor, Graduate School of Medicine	Peking University (China)	Details
UYAMA Hiroshi	Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	Kookmin University (Korea)	Details
KOGA Yuichi	Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering	National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Thailand)	Details
KONDOH Katsuyoshi	Professor, Joining and Welding Research Institute	King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand)	Details
MURAKAMI Masakatsu	Professor, Institute of Laser Engineering	Extreme Light Infrastructure Beam-lines (Czech Republic)	Details

2019-20 selected projects Type A

International Joint Research of Social Science for Leading Successful Collaboration among “Caring”, “Diversity” and “Technology” in the Super-Aging Society
Project Leader	SAITO Yayoi , Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences
Title, Organization	Shimada Shingo , Professor, Modern Japanese Studies II, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf Klein Barbara , Professor, Center for the Independent Living, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences Vamstad Johan , Associate Professor, Institute of Civil Society, Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden
Research Period	April 1, 2019~March 31, 2022
Research Outline	The aim of this project is to investigate the reality of the aging and global society that industrialized country faces, and to clarify the role of social sciences to build sustainable society. It also aims to educate young researchers who can conduct international research and joint research with the context of the times and each country's culture. We will work with researchers who have collaborated for a long time on academic exchange agreements in Heinrich Heine-Düsseldorf University (Germany), Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Germany), and Ersta Sköndal University (Sweden) to achieve these goals.

Modernisation of law and Society in South Asia: Comparative Study in the Context of Modernisation in Asia
Project Leader	FUKUI Kota , Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics
Title, Organization	Mulchandani Richa Rocky , Associate Professor, Law, Gujarat National Law University
Research Period	April 1, 2019~March 31, 2022
Research Outline	This study aims to analyse the modernization of India's law in comparison with the context of the modernization of Asian countries, and to explore the elements of the spontaneous modernization of law. The historical background of Indian modernization is quite different from Japanese modernization. In case of Japan, modernization was done spontaneously, without going through colonization. However, it does not mean India's modernization had no intrinsic elements. The aim of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the spontanious development of the law.

Development of proactive robotic-assisted device
Project Leader	OHNO Yuko , Professor, Division of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine
Title, Organization	Son Hyoung Il , Professor, Rural and Biosystems Engineering, Chonnam National University Oh Sehoon , Associate Professor, obotics Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Techinology (DGIST)
Research Period	April 1, 2019~March 31, 2021
Research Outline	Our research aimes to develop a new device to support the balance of elderly people etc. with proactive robotic-assisted approach. we want to prevent the fall by sensing, analyzing and evaluating the response of subject in real time, and displaying it to the subject oneself. Also we intend to capture emotional responses of elderly people etc. with non-contact and unstrained way.

Synthesis of bioactive fluoropolymers
Project Leader	OGOSHI Sensuke , Professor, Graduate School of Engineering
Title, Organization	Fruit Corinne Chantal , Associate Professor, The Computational Brain Anatomy (CoBrA) Laboratory, Normandie University
Research Period	April 1, 2019~March 31, 2022
Research Outline	Organofluoropolymers are one of the very robust polymers. Thus, organofluoropolymers have been used to covering marine cables. In this project, we will challenge the synthesis of new organofluoropolymers with bioactive function, that allows us to develop new long-life materials for the environment protection.

Analyses of Reactive Plasma Dynamics by Plasma Informatics
Project Leader	HAMAGUCHI Satoshi , Professor, Graduate School of Engineering
Title, Organization	Wu Jong-Shinn , Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University
Research Period	April 1, 2019~March 31, 2022
Research Outline	In this study, various plasma property data are obtained from numerical simulation and diagnostics of a plasma system and then used as input data for machine learning and/or other data-driven scientific methods, which predict internal conditions of a plasma based on its optical spectroscopy data. Such techniques are called “Virtual Metrology (VM).” The goal of this study is to establish the VM techniques for plasmas as well as the foundation of “plasma informatics,” i.e., anERROR

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