Report on the FY 2010 Annual Meeting of the BEANS Project
The Annual Meeting of the BEANS Project was held for twodays on June 15 and 16, 2010 at X Wave Fuchu in Fuchu,
Tokyo. The meeting featured invited guests from the Ministry ofEconomy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the New Energy andIndustrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) for a
total of 89 attendees. The purpose of the meeting was to report
on R&D efforts during the previous fiscal year by researchers ineach research area and to discuss the creation of newtechnologies through the integration of technologies being
pursued at each research center and the future that will becreated by BEANS, with the hope of enhancing intra-project
cooperation and competitiveness.
The first day’s session on June 15 featured speeches by theinvited guests and opening remarks from BEANS Project
Leader Atsushi Yusa. Next, individual researchers involved inthis year’s poster presentations gave brief descriptions of theirpresentations, after which presentations for the previous fiscal
year were presented in poster format.
In his opening remarks, Project Leader Yusa reaffirmed thesignificance of the Annual Meeting’s purpose and objectives. He
also pointed out that it would be important to intensify efforts
to keep up with the project schedule in order to achieve
tangible results, since this year is the interim evaluation year forthe project. He said that it would be essential for all members asa whole to focus on meeting their objectives.

Project Leader
Atsushi Yusa

The Annual Meeting

Sub Project Leader
Hiroyuki Fujita

In the group discussions, the researchers from each BEANS
research center were divided into four groups containing a
mixture of attendees from industry, government, and academia.
Groups were asked how the R&D currently engaged by theBEANS Project would contribute to our lifestyles ten years fromnow and how this R&D could be tied to the development ofinnovative devices.
The technical committee meeting was held concurrently
with the group discussions. The committee meeting featured an
exchange of information with representatives of member
companies participating in the project, reports on the FY 2009
achievements presented by the directors of each BEANS
research center, and two technical speeches given by Professor
Yasuyuki Sakai of the University of Tokyo and Professor
Nobuyuki Moronuki of Tokyo Metropolitan University.
Thereafter, the results of the group discussions werepresented to all participants, with many members of theaudience also offering their views on our lifestyles ten years
from now.
The oral presentations featured outstanding researchpresentations by the following researchers recommended by
the center directors. Each presentation was followed by aspirited question-and-answer session.
Life BEANS Center
Hideaki Shibata
Life BEANS Center Kyushu
Kentaro Harada
3D BEANS Center
Osamu Nukaga
Macro BEANS Center
Takaaki Murakami
In addition to the above researchers, the following
individuals were awarded prizes for outstanding poster at theawards ceremony. The award certificates were presented byProject Leader Yusa.
Best Poster Award
Nobuhiko Kojima
Outstanding Poster Awards
Yukiko Tsuda,
Takeshi Kobayashi,
Yuichiro Shimada,and Yongfang Li
The Annual Meeting concluded with an overall summary
and review by Keiichi Aoyagi, Director for R&D Coordination ofthe BEANS Laboratory.

Poster presentations

There were 44 reports given on the previous fiscal year’s
R&D achievements in poster format. For poster presentations
on achievements in the current fiscal year, individual
researchers were allotted one minute each to promote theirown presentations. The summaries of achievements were wellreceived and had great bearing on the subsequentannouncement of presentation results. Individual researchers
used their allotted time to give presentations with their posters,
hoping to receive the Best Poster Award, and the session
included many valuable discussions. After all poster
presentations were given, Sub Project Leader Hiroyuki Fujita
gave feedback on the presentations. Following a break fordinner, discussions on the individual research topics were held,
continuing until late in the night.
The second day’s session on June 16 featured group
discussions, a technical committee meeting, reports on theresults of the group discussions, oral presentations, and aceremony to present the Best Poster Award and theOutstanding Poster Awards.

Technical committee meeting

10Group discussions