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JSPS ALUMNI CLUB DENMARK – NEWSLETTER NO. 3, October 2020*************************************************
Dear JSPS ACD members,
here comes a short newsletter with news and future plans
Leila, chairperson
COVID-19 DELAYS PLANNED ACD ACTIVITIESAs an update on ACD activities delayed by COVID-19, the BRIDGE fellowship visit planned forOctober 2020 is now tentatively postponed to March 2021, while the planned ACD seminaris so far postponed as hybrid/on line event to spring-summer 2021. This means that there
will not be a call for applications for the ACD seminar this year.
MEETING WITH THE OTHER NORDIC JSPS CLUBS CHAIRPERSONS ON 9th SEPTEMBER
I was happy to participate, on September 9, 2020, in the 5th Pan Nordic Alumni Club Chair
Meeting (held via Zoom). This was the first meeting of this kind for me, but was very
instructive in finding out about our nordic coleagues activities. This meeting has been heldsince FY2016 in order to create a platform for the chairs of the Nordic Alumni Clubs to meetand exchange information.
ACD BOARD MEETING ON 5th OCTOBERThe ACD board met on line on 5th October. The main topic of discussion was JARA 2021 andother upcoming events, which you can read more about below.
JARA 2021
You may have been wondering if the next JARA (Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly)
would be happening next year and I am pleased to confirm that we are very actively
discussing JARA 2021 with our co-organizing partners at Tokai University and the Japaneseembassy in Denmark, and there will definitely be a hybrid/online JARA at the beginning ofnext year. I will inform you of a date and further information on format and theme, as soon
as more details are settled.
UPCOMING ONLINE BRIDGE SEMINAR
We are planning are online seminar before Christmas, where last year's BRIDGE fellow andhis host will share their experiences. As well as a way of keeping in contact in corona times,
we will give some information on the BRIDGE fellowship for JSPS ACD regular members, aswell as JSPS funding opportunities open widely to danish researchesr. The date (tentativelyin November) will be announced shortly.
HOME PAGE AND LINKEDIN PAGE
Please look at our home page if you do not know it https://www.jsps-sto.com/alumni-club-3/alumni-club-in-denmark/ - you need to scroll to the bottom of the page to find details
about the board. The JSPS Stockholm office has a (quite) new Linkedin page, which you
might want to follow. A lot of nice initiatives between nordic and japanese researchers areannounced there. https://www.linkedin.com/company/jsps-sto/
HELP US TO RECRUIT NEW MEMBERS
JSPS ACD needs new members (and this point will stay on the newsletter every time, until
the situation is rectified!) Regular members need to be JSPS alumni, that is received a JSPS
grant before. However, and interest in research/educational collaboration with Japan isenough to be an associate member and while associate members are not elegible for ACD
earmarked grants, they still are welcome at event and recive information about regular,
open JSPS grants. If you have someone whom you think could benefit from being a member,please send them a link to the application page here:
https://www.jsps-sto.com/alumni-club-3/application-for-membership-4/