DFG Opens New Office in Tokyo
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) opened an office in Japan in April 2009. The Japanese office is the DFG’s fifth foreign representative office. The office is located in the German Cultural Centre in Tokyo, where the DFG is the third German research funding organisation, alongside the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Fraunhofer Society.
The DFG’s new Japanese office was opened by the President of the DFG, Professor Matthias Kleiner, at an opening ceremony on 15 April in Tokyo, during the “Promoting Young Researchers” symposium.
Programme
Speeches and Lectures
- Prof. Dr. Matthias Kleiner (President, DFG) (pdf | 23 KB)
- Dr. Iris Wieczorek (Director, DFG Office Japan) (pdf | 43 KB)
- Hirokazu Kumekawa (Director for International Exchange Program, S&T Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) (pdf | 74 KB)
- Prof. Motoyuki Ono (President, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) (pdf | 138 KB)
- Prof. Dr. Koichi Kitazawa (englisch) (pdf | 46 KB)
- Prof. Dr. Koichi Kitazawa (japanisch) (pdf | 93 KB)
- Introduction: Young Researchers in Germany Prof. Dr. Konrad Samwer
(Vice-President, DFG) (pdf | 598 KB) - Key Note: Young Researchers in Japan Prof. Dr. Makoto Kobayashi
(Executive Director, JSPS, Nobel Laureate Physics 2008) (pdf | 178 KB) - Early Independence - Scientific Training in Graduate Schools
(Dr. Annette Schmidtmann (DFG)) (pdf | 365 KB) - Research Centres - Attractive Environment for Young Academics
(Dr. Klaus Wehrberger (DFG)) (pdf | 310 KB) - Promoting German-Japanese Cooperation in the Humanities by Graduate Schools (Rede: Prof. Dr. Gesine Foljanty-Jost) (pdf | 26 KB)
- Promoting German-Japanese Cooperation in the Humanities by Graduate Schools (Rede: Prof. Dr. Yuji Ishida) (pdf | 65 KB)
- Promoting German-Japanese Cooperation in the Humanities by Graduate Schools (Präsentation) (pdf | 792 KB)
- Complex Chemical Systems: Scientific Life in the International Research Training Group Nagoya / Münster (pdf | 6,0 MB)
