Dr. Tanaka giving a talk |
This year’s JSPS Abend was held on 2 September at the Prince Elector’s La Redoute in Bad-Godesberg on the outskirts of Bonn. Every summer, the JSPS Bonn Office holds this event, to which it invites the heads of JSPS’s counterpart organizations and universities for the purpose of thanking them for their cooperation, while widening its sphere of cooperation and exchange within Germany.
On behalf of JSPS president Prof. Motoyuki Ono, whose participation in the Abend was preempted by urgent business in Japan, Dr. Toshio Kuroki, deputy director of JSPS’s Research Center for Science Systems, reported on JSPS’s activities and extended warm words of appreciation to the attendees.
A new component was added to this year’s event: A scientific lecture was presented by a Japanese researcher engaged in research on the ground in Germany so as to give Japanese research a more direct appeal to the German participants. A past recipient of a JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists, Dr. Motomu Tanaka, professor at Heidelberg University, was asked to give a talk on his current work at the German university. Placing emphasis on the importance of research support and researcher training, his lecture was well-received by the participants.
Before closing the curtain on this convivial event, remarks
were offered by Prof. Dr. Matthias Kleiner, president of the German Research Foundation.
- JSPS Bonn Office
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