2) Japanese-German and Japanese-European Cooperation

Abstract

As intergovernmental international cooperation activities in the second phase of SIP-adus, collaborative activities with the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) and Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG-RTD) of the European Commission were conducted by receiving offers for joint research through the frameworks of Japanese-German cooperation and of EU funded project. In the Japanese-German cooperation, a steering committee that made decisions on collaborative research activities in the field of automated driving, approved joint research plans in the four research fields of human factors, socioeconomic impact, safety assurance, and cybersecurity related to automated driving technology, and collaborative activities were conducted. In the Japanese-EU cooperation, offers were received to cooperate with projects under Horizon 2020, an European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation funded by the European Commission, and cooperation activities with mainly three projects under Horizon 2020 were conducted.