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JSPS ALUMNI CLUB DENMARK – NEWSLETTER NO. 1, February 2022*************************************************
Dear JSPS ACD members,
a belated happy new year to all! A new year that we hope will again allow much more travelling andresearchers exchanges.
UPCOMING JARA ON 3. MARCH IN AARHUS - RESERVE THE DATE!
The most important item in this newsletter is the announcement of JARA, the Japan Alumni andResearcher Assembly which will be organized as a primarily on site event already on 3. March inÅrhus. We thank greatly our board member Annette Skovsted Hansen for organizing this event
despite the clear difficulties in these uncertain times. We hope as many of you as possible will beable to join this rather broadly themed event, which should appeal to club members with diverse
research backgrounds. JARA is open to anybody with interest, not just club members, and coorganized with the Embassy of Japan and Tokai University.
Topic for the day: Maritime Research in Denmark and Japan - Opportunities for Collaboration andFunding
Date: March 3, 2022
Place: Aarhus University, Denmark (Online option for listening)
Time: 11-16 CET (Japan 7PM- Midnight)
The JARA event this year will take place physically at Aarhus University and include a keynote by
Associate Professor Hirata Enna from the University of Kobe and three other presentations ofmaritime research in Japan and Denmark. Following lunch from Sushi Springtime, two shortpresentations from the Shipping Industry and research funding opportunities will frame a roundtable
about transdisciplinary research with participation from anthropology, engineering, business,biology, ecoscience, environmental science, and history.
UPCOMING GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON 10. MARCH (ONLINE 12-13) - RESERVE THE DATE!
All regular members will be invited separately shortly, but please reserve the date and time. Thereare places on the board, so please consider getting more involved by becoming a board member(you are welcome to contact me or another board member about this ahead of the GA to hear more
about it). If there are activities you think the club should organize, or if you want to get involved inthe club in other ways, the general assembly is the right forum to bring it up.
OTHER UPDATESUnfortunately, but not surprisingly due to the still uncertain travel situation and short deadline,
there were no applicant for the BRIDGE fellowship this year. But there is still the opportunity toapply for funding for running an ACD seminar, where you can invite a guest from Japan and otherspeakers on a well defined theme. The call will be out soon, with a simplified application procedurecompared to previous year, so I encourage all members to consider this opportunity already now.

HOME PAGE AND LINKEDIN PAGE
Please look at our home page if you do not know it https://www.jsps-sto.com/ac/alumni-club-indenmark/ - you need to scroll to the bottom of the page to find details about the board. The JSPS
Stockholm office has a Linkedin page, which you might want to follow. A lot of nice initiatives
between nordic and japanese researchers are announced 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 thesituation 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 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 a member, please send them a link to the application pagehere:
https://www.jsps-sto.com/ac/application-for-membership-4/