International Exchange

ASEAN-JAPAN

International exchange promotion activities among ASEAN countries are started by the 21st century COE program from 2006 through establishing the Asian academic network named SEE Forum (Sustainable Energy and Environment Forum). In 2018, we will have the special session of the SEE Forum in the Grand Renewable Energy 2018 in Yokohama in June. In Thailand we also have the Eco-Energy and Materials Science and Engineering Symposium (EMSES) in almost every year in cooperation with Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi from 2001. In this year, 14th EMSES will be held in Uji Campus, Kyoto University in co-organized with National Institute of Technology, Kagawa College. By this cooperation we foster energy researchers in ASEAN countries.

These international activities among ASEAN region have been appreciated by many the counterpart universities, research institute in Asia, Japanese government and UNESCO. In this connection we started to cooperation with UNESCO COMPETENCE program from 2009. As the extension activity we started the ODA-UNESCO Assist program on Energy for Sustainable Development in Asia (Vietnam in 2011, Laos in 2012, Cambodia in 2013, and Myanmar in 2014, http://www.oda-unesco-iae-kyoto-u.com/). In 2017, UNESCO selected Kyoto University as "UNESCO chair" in the field of water, energy, and disaster prevention. In 2015, the Japan ASEAN Science and Technology Innovation Platform (JASTIP) has been adopted in JST SICORP and we have been promoting the international collaboration research between Japan and ASEAN.In education activity, based on the MOU between Kyoto University and AUN which was initiated IAE activities, the AUN ‒ KU Student Mobility Program towards Human Security Development (HSD) has been selected to accelerate internationalization of university in 2012.

JSPS/NSFC Bilateral Collaboration Research Program "Research on Coherent Synchrotron Radiation and Super-radiation Free Electron Laser based on Ultra-Short Electron Bunches"

TThis collaboration research aims at developing intense coherent radiations from high brightness electron beams in cooperation with Japan (Kyoto University and Tohoku University) and China (University of Science and Technology China, and Peking University). Japanese team will mainly work on experimental study on generation of ultra-short bunch electron beams and coherent radiations. Chinese team will mainly work on theoretical study of these topics as well as development of simulation code. In Kyoto University, the existing 40 MeV electron linac where we can generate intense coherent synchrotron radiation and a newly installed small photocathode rf-gun based THz radiation machine will be used for this program. In Tohoku University, the originally designed thermionic rf-gun based linac will be studied in this program. In Peking University, the super-conducting linac which can generate strong coherent radiation will be studied. In University of Science and Technology Chine, theoretical studies will be carried out to understand the generation of ultra-short bunch electron beams with rather low energy (a few to 50 MeV) as well as generation of coherent super-radiation including development of simulation code. From 2017, NSRL has started installation of a new FEL machine and Japan side team will also contribute to the machine commissioning and FEL lasing in NSRL.

List of International Agreements