Prof. Yasuteru Shigeta, Vice President and Executive Director for Research, and Prof. Akira Uedono, Director of the Bochum Office, visited the University of Bonn, one of our university-level partners.
This visit was made possible by the adoption of a collaborative program between the University of Tsukuba and several European partner universities, including the University of Bonn, in the “Inter-University Exchange Project -Promoting Inter-University Exchanges with European Universities-” implemented by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. After an explanation of the international exchange situation at the University of Bonn by Prof. Birgit Ulrike Münch, Vice Rector for International Affairs, and an explanation of the Matter and Light for Quantum Computing (ML4Q)* initiative by Professor Simon Stellmer, we toured several laboratories and deepened their discussions on the possibility of exchanges between the two universities.
The University of Bonn is one of 11 universities selected as an “Excellence University” in the Excellence Strategy implemented by the German federal and state governments, and ML4Q has been recognized as an “Excellence Cluster,” an outstanding research cluster, within that strategy.
Through further discussions, we aim to promote research and student exchange by making maximum use of the frameworks of support projects provided by the governments of two countries.
* A research cluster in the field of quantum computing consisting of researchers from the University of Bonn, the University of Cologne, RWTH Aachen University, and the Forschungszentrum Jülich.
