W-01 Continuing Individual International Research Internship in Forefront of Science Collaboration

Abstract

A long-continuing international research internship has been conducted between Japanese and German universities for more than 10 years. The purpose is to nurture the students performing the international research in the forefront of science by means of mutual stay abroad. The Japanese students have been individually sent to the foreign institutes for three to five months. Foreign students were accepted to Japanese institutes in the same manner. The students had to manage their own research activities and daily works by themselves in unfamiliar circumstances. The foreign collaborators were selected from the institutes where the relevant studies were conducted for years. Since the information exchanges are indispensable in the international collaborations in natural science, the skills and knowledge the students would obtain are very important for the whole research network. The experience of individual stay abroad is surely benefit for the students’ activity on job hunting. The number of mutual stay-abroad has reached 42. As well, the number of paper publications reached 18 up to now from 2012.