Overview
The Institute of Industrial Technology (IIT) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) have been collaborating for 25 years in the field of nanobio, μTAS, silicon neuron, IoT energy harvester, and other interdisciplinary micronano research fields. LIMMS (Laboratory for Integrated Micromechanatronic Systems), a French-Japanese international joint research organization that has been operating for 25 years in collaboration with the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research), is a cross-disciplinary research organization that aims to maximize the physical, mental, and cultural benefits, or quality of life, of the aging and shrinking population that Japan is experiencing ahead of other developed countries. We will engage in cross-disciplinary research on solutions to maximize the physical, mental, and cultural benefits, or Quality of Life, of the aging and depopulating society that Japan is experiencing ahead of other developed countries.
The University of Tokyo, which has a broad perspective, will take the lead in international collaborative research and the next generation research, utilizing the existing international research network of LIMMS and 14 research institutes in 10 countries, in order to develop these solutions as global standard technologies, rather than simply localized ones applicable only to Japan. The University of Tokyo, with its broad perspective in a wide range of fields, will take the lead in conducting international joint research and fostering the next generation of young researchers by utilizing the existing international research network of LIMMS and 14 related institutes in 10 countries.
International Research Institute for Transdisciplinary Microsystems, The University of Tokyo
Purpose of Establishment
This project aims to strengthen inter-departmental collaboration by assigning host researchers across the university, and to expand and realize world-class international interdisciplinary joint research at the university by continuing the quarter-century-long cooperative relationship with CNRS, France, as an external collaborating institution.
Items to be implemented to achieve the objectives：
- Establishment of a foundation for international joint research collaboration on interdisciplinary microsystems
- Fostering young researchers who will be responsible for international joint research on interdisciplinary microsystems
- Promotion of industry-academia co-creation using the results of international joint research on interdisciplinary microsystems
- Establishment of an international joint research management system to support the above