Overseas Researcher Support
Overseas researchers face many obstacles when coming to Japan. There are many institutional documents to check and submit, as well as many regulations and guidelines to follow. These documents are complex, and many of them are not in English.
Industry-Academic Cooperation (First Contact Program)
Interactive Knowledge Exchange for Early-stage Researchers
ASHBi First Contact Program aims to promote an interactive knowledge exchange of early-stage researchers in both academia and industry. Through active discussions, the program aims to bring together academia’s research and industry’s social implementation, which lead to finding hints and building interdisciplinary network for future innovation.
Solving Questions on the spot to share learning and awareness
This program is conducted in an interactive format, where participants can raise questions at any moment to discuss along the course of the presentation. Rather than the “one-way” flow of knowledge seen in conventional seminars, this program creates a place for the entire group to share insights and learnings through “dual-way” discussions where a question leads to a chain-reaction of questions to enable further understanding.
Currently, the program is provided in Japanese. For inquiries please contact ASHBi Research Acceleration Unit.
Public Relations/Outreach
We actively shares ASHBi’s activities with the international community through our website and social media. In particular, ASHBi distributes news releases on its research results to international media, using the international scientific news platform, EurekAlert!. In the process, we create easy-to-understand texts and actively use scientific illustrations so that even lay readers can understand our research stories.
Outreach Activities
ASHBi is actively engaged in outreach activities to give back the results of its research to society, such as lectures given by ASHBi researchers at high schools, and bioethics seminars organized by middle school students.