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JSPS ALUMNI CLUB DENMARK – NEWSLETTER NO. 1, January 2021*************************************************
Dear JSPS ACD members,
this is the first newsletter of the year, and with it I want to wish you a HAPPY 2021, with my very
best wishes for a more normal year and re-opening of borders and students/researchers exchanges
across the world, and especially between Denmark and Japan.
Leila, chairperson
JARA 2021 - Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly - 29th January 2021 9-11 on line event
JARA 2021 will be soon, on January 29th from 9-11!!! Given the circumstances JARA is organised as afully online event, with TUEC/Tokai as main organizer and participation of the Embassy of Japan in
Denmark and the JSPS Stockholm and Alumni Club Denmark. If you are new to JARA, it is anextremely important event in the JSPS ACD calendar. JARA stands for Japan Alumni and Researcher
Assembly and aims to promote networking within the Japan-related research community in
Denmark, and to provide a forum for Danish and Japanese researchers, professionals and students
to meet, and promote Japan-related research and student scholarships. There will be short
introductions to the participating institutions and scholarship programs, but the main event will befour lectures on the extremely interesting theme of 'Quality of Life'. Please help make the event asuccess and join by registering at https://sites.google.com/view/jara2021/home !
UPCOMING ALUMNI CLUB GENERAL ASSEMBLY - 5th FEBRUARY 2021 12-13 online
Usually we hold the Alumni Club General Assembly on the same day as JARA 2021 for all regularmembers of the ACD club. However this year, due to the changed format of JARA 2021 and thecurrent restrictions, we will have this as an online event at lunchtime 12-13 on 5th February 2021. If
you are a regular member, you will receive a separate invitation with a link within a few days. Pleaseattend and get more involved!
OTHER NEWSAs a new type of event, we held a BRIDGE fellowship Webinar on 13th of November. Bridge Fellow
2019 Lars Jørn Jensen （University of Copenhagen）and his host in Japan James Pearson （NationalCerebral and Cardiovascular Center) gave short back to back talks on the BRIDGE experience. It was asmall, but - in my opinion - successful event which JSPS and the ACD will consider repeating in thefuture. Unfortunately it is still uncertain how and when the Bridge Fellow for 2020 will be able totravel to her host. Likewise it is uncertain if the ACD Seminar planned for 2019 and now postponed
to 2020 will be possible as live or hybrid event, or will have to be online only.
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. TheJSPS Stockholm office has a (quite) new 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
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/alumni-club-3/application-for-membership-4/