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JSPS ALUMNI CLUB DENMARK – NEWSLETTER NO. 2, April 2022*************************************************
Dear JSPS ACD members,

JARA ON 3. MARCH IN AARHUS SHOWCASED THE TRANSDISCIPLINARITY OF
MARITIME RESEARCH
On 3. March, thanks to the hard work of our board member Prof Annette Skovsted Hansen,
the Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly was held at the University of Århus as a
primarily on site event. For those of us who attended on site, it was fantastic to meet
physically with colleagues from the board and other researchers with strong connections withJapan. As traditional, the event was co-organized by JSPS Stockholm and ACD, together
with the Embassy of Japan and Tokai University. We are grateful in particular to His
Excellency the ammbassador of Japan, for his physical participation despite his busy
schedule. Online participation by speakers and attendees wenet extremely smoothly, forwhich we thank particularly Tokai University, who provided a lot of the necessary technicalassistance.
The theme of JARA was 'Maritime Research in Denmark and Japan - Opportunities forCollaboration and Funding', where a series of keynote lecturers presented on diverse topics
within Maritime Research, ranging from CO2 emission reduction, applications of AI toshipping research and history of dock worker struggles upon containerization. Even though I
am an outsider to maritime research, I could find plenty of interesting connections to my own
interest areas and appreciate the high level of research. Even more so, during the discussion
just following the keynote speakers and the roundtable discussion after lunch, the highpotential of maritime research for inter- and transdisciplinary research was obvious, and I am
sure most partipants, like me, were greatly inspired
GENERAL ASSEMBLY WAS HELD FOR REGULAR MEMBERS ON 10. MARCH(ONLINE 12-13)
Thank you to everybody who participated for the great turnout and even more so, for the very
active participation. Finally also for re-electing me as chair for another term, together withMollie Brooks as vice-chair. For those of you who could not make it I attach the minute fromthe meeting, taken by our board member Prof Mette Sandbye.
OTHER UPDATES
If you are interested in applying, remember the ACD Seminar funding deadline of 17. April.
HOME PAGE AND LINKEDIN PAGE
Please look at our home page if you do not know it https://www.jsps-sto.com/ac/alumni-clubin-denmark/ - you need to scroll to the bottom of the page to find details about the board. TheJSPS Stockholm office has a Linkedin page, which you might want to follow. A lot of niceinitiatives between nordic and japanese researchers are announced there.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/jsps-sto/

HELP US TO RECRUIT NEW MEMBERS TO ACDJSPS ACD REALLY 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 isreceived a JSPS grant before. However, and interest in research/educational collaboration
with Japan is enough 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 amember, please send them a link to the application page here: https://www.jspssto.com/ac/application-for-membership-4/
We are aware that not so many new JSPS fellows have travelled the last few years, but wealso have difficulty reaching out to elegible fellows, as due to GDPR, we cannot easily obtainlists of previous JSPS fellows. If you think someone is elegible, but not a member, pleasereach out to them and tell them to get in touch.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN THE BOARD AT NEXT GA?
We also need new active members who would like to get more involved and join the board.
Please consider it for yourself, or nudging a friend who is an ACD member. Get involved
from now, and stand for election at next general assembly.
FINALLY A PERSONAL GREETING
I take the opportunity to wish you a very Happy Easter break in these - still - very uncertain
times. Let's hope all together, that sanity and peace prevail, and soon.
Leila Lo Leggio (JSPS ACD Chair)