2016 年 64 巻 6 号 p. 6_24-6_25
Photonics Center at Osaka University has been a world-class center for research, education and industrial collaboration in the field of photonics for the past 10 years. Particularly, for the past 5 years, Photonics Center had a JSPS-funded Asian Core research program, which was aimed on collaborative research in the field of photonics through the exchange of students and young scientists between Japan and three other Asian countries. This program successfully completed in March 2016 with highly productive results and was evaluated very high by the JSPS. After the successful completion, we applied for and were able to secure a new JSPS-funded Core-to-Core program for another 5 years. With our past experiences, international networking and growing research ideas, the new program includes 11 different countries and is not only limited to Asia, but also involves USA, UK and Australia. We will discuss more details of the international research collaboration activities in the past 5 years, present status and future prospective.