International Cooperation at NICT

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1 Opportunities of International Cooperation What NICT can Contribute NICT International Affairs Department Yasuhiro Koyama 1 International Cooperation at NICT NICT tries to focus on research cooperation and standardization activities from a global viewpoint. Contribution to solve global issues (global warming, energy, ICT securities, etc.) Globalization of R&D environment Promotion of international standardization Paris, France (NICT Europe Center) Washington D.C., USA (NICT North America Center) Bangkok, Thailand (NICT Asia Center) NICT International Cooperation Centers 2

2 MOU and CRA Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) Overall framework to collaborate Now with 66 institutes Collaborative Research Agreement (CRA) Detailed agreements for joint research projects Exchange of information. Exchange of staff and researchers. Promotion of joint research. Joint organization of technical meetings and workshops. Research plan, scope of work, intellectual property handling, resource sharing, financial responsibilities, etc. Mutual Collaboration or Commissioned Research. 3 MOU with Foreign Institutes (Asia) Southeast Asia Singapore Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network (SingAREN) Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Malaysia Multimedia University (MMU) Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems (MIMOS) Indonesia Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (MCIT) Thailand Office of Information Technology Administration for Educational Development (UniNet), Commision on Higher Education of Thailand National Institute of Metrology (NIMT) National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) Thai Nichi Institute of Technology (TNI) King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) Chiang Mai University (CMU) Chulalongkorn University East Asia South Korea Kyung Hee University Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST ICC) Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) National Geographic Information Institute (NGII) Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) National Information Society Agency (NIA) School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University (SNUSCE) Taiwan Academia Sinica National Sun Yat Sen University (NSYSU) Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) Telecommunication Laboratories, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd (CHT TL) Institute for Information Industry (III) China Asia Pacific Advanced Network Ltd. (APAN) Tsinghua University China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR) National Institute of Metrology, People's Repubic of China (NIM) Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU) Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIMIT) 3 Countries 12 Institutes 3 Countries(Regions) 22 Institutes 4

3 MOU with Foreign Institutes (North America, Europe, Oceania) Europe Norway Oslo University Hospital HF (OUS) Italy Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Roma Tre University UK Heriot Watt University Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe (DANTE) University of Bristol France Grenoble Institute of Technology (ENSERG) Institut Mines Télécom Le Centre National d Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Portugal Instituto de Telecomunicações Sweden Chalmers University of Technology Denmark Aalborg University CTIF (AAU CTIF) Finland VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) Hungary Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) Germany University of Ulm (UULM) University of Duisburg Essen (UDE) Russia The Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Radio Wave Propagation, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (IKIR) 11 Countries 17 Institutes Oceania Australia National ICT Australia (NICTA) New Zealand Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Faculty of Creative Industries and Business, Unitec Institute of Technology of New Zealand 2 Countries 3 Institutes 11 Institutes North America USA University of Alaska Fairbanks University of Illinois (UIC) Indiana University (IU) Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU LTI) University of California, San Diego (UCSD) University of California, Davis (UCD) Georgia Institute of Technology The University of Utah The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) National Science Foundation (NSF) 5 Exchange of staff and researchers (to NICT) Internship Trainee Period : one month to 1 year Support : Air Tickets, Apartment, Living Allowance Candidates : PhD students or PhD holders are desirable. A consent by a host laboratory is necessary. Invited Advisor Short time period : < 1 month Support : Air Tickets, Accommodations, Living Allowance Guest Researcher Maximum Period : 1 year (renewable) No financial supports from NICT 6

4 Number of Internship Trainees ( ) Collaborations with Southeast Asian Countries are growing!! 7 Exchange of Staff and Researchers (from NICT) Dispatch Program for Young Researchers Maximum Period : 1 year Young researchers (up to 2 researchers each year) are awarded to stay at foreign research institutes with the expenses from NICT. Universities Research Institutes NICT 8

5 Exchange of staff and researchers (to Japanese research institutes outside NICT) Invitation program for foreign researchers encourages Japanese research institutes to conduct joint R&D in telecommunication and broadcasting with a participation of foreign researchers. supports travel, living, and accommodation expenses. 9 Joint organization of meetings and workshops Asian Forum on ICT (AFICT) Dec Multimedia Univ. (Malaysia), I2R (Singapore), PTIT (Vietnam), NECTEC (Thailand) Nov NECTEC (Thailand) Mar PTIT (Vietnam) Nov ITRI (Taiwan) Jun MIMOS (Malaysia) Joint Workshops Dec TRIDI NICT Joint Seminar (Bangkok, Thailand) Jul TRIDI NICT Joint Seminar (Bangkok, Thailand) Jun I2R NICT Joint Workshop (Singapore) Jul I2R NICT Joint Workshop (Osaka, Japan) 10

6 Summary Exchange of Researchers Internship Trainee Program, Researcher Dispatch Program, etc. MOU Partners MOU is existing CRA if required Meetings Workshops NICT Research Papers, Standardization, Outcomes, 11