平成２９年度「学術交流協定校との国際シンポジウム開催支援事業」報告書“Grant for International Symposium with Academic Partnership University in FY 2017” Report Form
申請区分
Type of Symposium

B タイプ（大学院学生支援型）
DivisionofField
Engineering for theEnvironment部 門 名Division

DivisionofField
Engineering for theEnvironment

実施責任者 職・氏名
Organizer(Title, Name)

Associate
Professor
Michael Henry

実施担当者 職/学年・氏名

Joel Opon (D2, FieldEngineering for theEnvironment)
Hayato Takahashi (D2,Field Engineering forthe Environment)

Applicant(Title,/School Year, Name )シンポジウム名Symposium Title

6th International Doctoral Symposium“Synergy in Civil Engineering Research towards the Realization of a GlobalSustainable Society

実施期間
Date, Time

November 8, 2017 (8:30 – 20:00)
November 9, 2017 (8:30 – 20:00)
November 10, 2017 (7:40 – 17:30)

シンポジウムの具体的な開催内容
Describe thecontents of thesymposium

The 6th International Doctoral Symposium with the theme ‘Synergy in Civil Engineering
Research towards the Realization of a Global Sustainable Society,’ was held on Nov. 8-10, 2017at the School of Engineering Building, Hokkaido University. The major goal of the symposium
was to be an avenue for discussion of issues relevant to sustainability in various Civil
Engineering research fields, which are contributory efforts for the attainment of various
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, particularly Goals 9, 11, 12 and
13. About 89 on record attended the 3-day symposium composed of the students coming fromdifferent sister universities overseas and in Japan together with the graduate students (bothpresenters and not) and professors of Hokkaido University, and the invited speakers.
The event was formally opened by the Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering, Prof.
Yukinori Kobayashi. The first day of the symposium unfolded with a series of lectures in themorning and two Ph.D. Student’s oral presentation sessions thereafter. The lecture series beganwith the Keynote Speaker Dr. Koji Sakai, representative of Japan Sustainability Institute,Sapporo, and one of the leading experts on concrete sustainability, who talked about themysterious word sustainability. Dr. Sakai pointed out that several actions, publications,organizations, and standards were created and are being created or modified to address
sustainability issues encompassing from research works towards application stages. He further
detailed the benefits of integrating the concept of sustainability into one’s own research. The
keynote was followed by two lectures from our distinguished guests. Director Tomoki
Kanenawa, of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), discussed on JICA’sdevelopment initiative for road asset management an effort directed towards the attainment ofsafe and resilient civil infrastructure systems, a program targeting developing countries,
particularly around Asia. He was followed by Dr. Yasuyuki Hirai, the Director of the RiverManagement Division of Hokkaido Regional Development Bureau, who lectured about thewater resources of the world and in Japan, he also emphasized how the management of suchpresent several benefits ensuring availability of water and improving sanitation, the main themeof SDG 6.
On the afternoon of the first day, Ph.D. students had their oral presentations for the first twosessions. Four students discussed their research on the topic Green and Resilient Infrastructure,
which is the session 1, and five Ph.D. students presented for the Sustainable Construction
Materials topic, the session 2. The presentations in session 1 focused on pipeline maintenance,
use of radar for concrete structure inspection, and cost management using BIM. Whereas session
2 presentations discuss primarily the sustainable concrete indicators, and the use of alternative
materials to make concrete. The activities of the first day ended with a welcome dinner held at
the engineering cafeteria.

On November 9, 2017, the second day of the symposium, the remaining 4 sessions for 15 Ph.D.
student’s oral presentation continued as well as the poster presentations by the graduate students
of HU and Kagoshima University. The oral presentations was composed of 3 major topics, one
was on Sustainable Transportation, Urban Planning and Contributions to Climate Change(session 3), another on Sustainable Construction Materials (sessions 4 and 5), and lastly on
Water Resources and Consumption (session 6). Session 3 presenters talked on different areas
related to the topic, specifically on the correlation of hurricane and damage, and on dyke slope
strength both of which are issues relevant to climate change. Also presented are the travel time
reliability and the efficiency economy indicators. In the two sessions for sustainable
construction materials, most presenters discussed on the use of alternative materials to makeconcrete for specialized applications and functions, some discussed on concrete deterioration
mechanics due to chemical attacks, and the use of modeling to predict corrosion damage. The
last oral presentation session focused their discussion on river morphology, particularly on bankerosion’s effect on river bar formation, the use of modeling to describe bed wave’s formation inrivers, and two students presented new technologies with an application on water treatmentusing magnetic core dendrimer and titanium-doped nanotubes. Part also of the activities of thesecond day of the symposium is the poster presentation by graduate students. In total there were
31 poster presenters who joined this activity, and several topics were presented from almost allareas of civil engineering. Students were able to exchange insights on areas they are mostfamiliar with and it also introduced them to other research areas of the field through open anddirect discussion with the poster presenters.
The second day was concluded by awarding 3 best presenters for oral presentation sessions and3 best poster presenters were also selected during the closing ceremony. The research discussion
activities, both the oral and poster presentations were formally ended by a closing remark fromAssoc. Prof. Michael Henry, the main organizer of the symposium. After the closing ceremony,the participants then proceeded to a planned banquet and fellowship.
The third day was dedicated for a technical tour wherein the team went to several sites aroundOtaru City. They headed first from Sapporo to Otaru Port where they were able to tour aroundthe total stretch of the port area by boat. They also learned how the port was constructed, which
involved a series of concrete materials tests to find the right mixture and constituent materials
necessary to reduce the deteriorating effect of the marine environment on concrete. In theafternoon the participants went to NEXCO construction site where an expressway project isunder construction. The construction managers explained to the participants the details of theconstruction procedure which is designed to minimize wastage and reduce the impact ofconstruction to the environment as well as on the social activities of the people living aroundthe area. After which the team headed back to Otaru downtown area to for a free time tour andsightseeing since part of the purpose of this tour was also to introduce some famous tourist
destination especially to the participants coming from overseas and to other international
students studying in Japan.
The 3-day symposium manifested according to plan and schedule, with several activities held
to engage all participants into a healthy research discussion and fellowship with one another,which is the start of future collaborations in a multi-disciplinary research that integrates theprinciples of sustainability.
合計/Total
55
人/Participants
内訳/Details (Ph.D. Students, Master’s Students, Research Students, & B4 Students)
人数/ Number
身分/Status
国/Country
所属機関名/University Nameof Participants

出席者数
Number ofParticipants22211221119Ph.D. Students
Ph.D. Students
Ph.D. Students
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Students
Ph.D. Students
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Student
Ph.D. Students

Australia
South Korea
ThailandGermany
Philippines
CanadaThailand
China
Japan
Japan
Japan

University of Sydney
Hanyang University
Kasetsart University
Technical University of Munich
De la Salle University
University of British Columbia
SIIT – Thammasat University
Harbin Institute of Technology
The University of Tokyo
Saitama University
Hokkaido University

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24

Master’s Students
Master’s Students
Research Students
B4 Students

JapanJapan
Japan
Japan

Kagoshima University
Hokkaido University
Hokkaido University
Hokkaido University

The symposium is guided by specific objectives, hence the series of activities were planned out
to achieve them. In conclusion, the 3-day symposium successfully attained all the objectives
since we are able to introduce the concept of sustainability and how it affect our research ingeneral, and our speakers further showed that they are attainable in areas of different
perspectives, such as on concrete material research, construction, water resources, and evenagency goals such as in JICA can be aligned for sustainability. We are able to introduce andpromote through our invited keynote speaker and lecturers crucial Sustainable Development
Goals of the UN, in which researchers in the Civil Engineering field can contribute to.
Through a series of oral presentation sessions and even through poster presentations activities,
we attained our goal to have a free exchange of ideas among participants with diverse
perspectives, this will provoke the improvement of their research quality and more importantly
on widening the scope of their respective research to include the sustainability principles.
シンポジウム開催による成果
OutcomeNot only through research presentation activities, but other soft activities such as welcome
dinner and banquet, and even the technical tour were able to create an atmosphere wherein
participants from all over can freely communicate, talk about research and new ideas, build new
friendship, which is anticipated create future research collaborations and strengthen the linkagesof Hokkaido University and her sister universities.
Through the poster presentation by master’s, research, and few B4 students, they were exposed
to an international research environment which likely honed their presentation skills and it also
introduced them to a wider audience where diversity of idea is a norm.
Lastly, despite being shorthanded most of the time, the student organizers of this symposium
were able to develop their organizational skills, communication skill, ability to socialize withnew people, and many other soft and transferable skills. These skills equip them to become
better leaders and researchers in the future.
In this symposium, several seeds of sustainability were planted in the young minds of the young
researchers coming from a diverse background, country, and expertise, and opportunities suchas this can nurture that seed so that in the future it can have a chain reaction effect to help us
realize a global sustainable society.
The open and free exchanges between participants of the symposium created lines ofcommunications which could lead to future linkages and collaborations of researchers working
on relatively similar ideas, or create trans- and multidisciplinary researches while making central
the concept of sustainability. These are some of the expectations that this symposium is hoped
to achieve in the long run as fruits of our labor.

今後の展望と課題
Future prospects
and issues

We are truly grateful that as organizers we made this event a success, but there are several items
that need to be pointed out to guide and help future organizers from what we learned from thisexperience. Firstly, we recognize the importance of our previous experience in handling projects
as one of the major factors that helped us hurdle the challenges that we faced while preparing
for all the activities. The openness to new ideas and constructive criticism by others improved
our plan and some mishaps were identified earlier on, which gave us the time to correct them.
Transparency between the organizers and all people involved helped us build trust with one
another. And, more importantly, the ability to multi-task, and delegating responsibilities or if
possible outsourcing talents from others who are willing and are capable to do the expected jobs
are our core tactics to free our full hands, and focus our energies towards more importantmatters. Lastly, the strong linkages of the main organizer of this symposium, Assoc. Prof.
Michael Henry, with overseas universities, colleagues abroad and to international organizations
propelled us to reach our goals for this event. Patience also played a central role in everythingthat we do. Perhaps, what we will suggest to future organizers is to make clear the relevant
accounting rules and discuss them thoroughly with the accounting personnel prior to inviting
overseas participants.

We are thankful that this kind of opportunity fell into our hands in the first place, and with thegrant, we are able to initiate and eventually made the symposium happen successfully andovershooting the initial target that we expected to achieve after adjusting our budget to matchwith the actual amount than what we originally proposed. Our original proposal was to invite
15 overseas students from HU’s sister universities abroad, what we managed to fund is 12
students from overseas, despite the fact that what we actually received is only 75% of theproposed amount which could have only accommodated 9 students. Thankfully, the strong
linkages of the main organizer as mentioned in the previous section, another student was able
to attend and fully funded by Kasetsart University, increasing the number of overseas students
to 13, just 2 students away from our original target.
その他（本事業の要望等）
Comment for theGrant

The connection of the main organizer with JICA also helped us reduce the budget for thespeakers, and by inviting local but internationally renowned speakers also substantially reduced
the cost intended for the speakers, and this surplus were used to augment our budget in order toinvite more students from overseas, and had it not been because of these strategies we won’t beable to increase the number. If our proposed budget was not reduced maybe we could haveinvited more students over and create even more dynamic activities.
The reduced grant made us more resourceful and even more constrained since we recognizedthat flight fares fluctuate with time, which gave us lesser opportunity to invite people from farplaces, but with our quick invitations, we were able to invite 5 students outside Asia (fromCanada, Germany, and Australia). There were also items that we did not anticipate from ourprevious application, such as items D, H, and J shown in the following section, and these items
are also crucial to be considered by future applicants of the grant, however despite that, we areable to apportion part of surpluses and the contingency fund to cater these items.

平成２９年度「学術交流協定校との国際シンポジウム開催支援事業」報告書“Grant for International Symposium with Academic Partnership University in FY 2017” Report Form

申請区分
Type of Symposium
部 門 名Division
シンポジウム名Symposium Title
実施期間
Date, Time

シンポジウムの具体的な開催内容
Describe thecontents of thesymposium

B タイプ（大学院学生支援型）
実施責任者 職・氏名
Division of Sustainable
Professor Mayumi Ito
Organizer(Title, Name)
Resources Engineering
実施担当者 職/学年・氏名
Division of Sustainable
M2 Kenta Noto
Resources Engineering Applicant(Title,/School Year, Name )1st KAMPAI SymposiumSustainable Management of Resources and Environment in the 21st Century
November 6-8, 2017
The conference on 1st International KAMPAI Symposium on Sustainable
Management of Resources and Environment in the 21st Century, organized by
Hokkaido University, Division of Sustainable Resource Engineering was the first of
its kind to bring together scholars from various parts of the world to shareknowledge and state of the art technologies to help solve the challenge of heavy
metal contamination in Kabwe, Zambia, Africa as well as other contaminated sitesin the world. The conference was attended by 87 scholars from 4 countries fromZambia and Japan as well as countries such as Serbia and Thailand. The theme ofthe symposium was well interpreted by the scholars in areas such as:
1.
Environmental Risk Assessment and Management;2.
Remediation of Contaminated Sites;
3.
Mining Engineering;
4.
Environmental and Resources Geology;
5.
Waste Management and Recycling; and6.
Contribution to Global Environmental Problems.
As an indication of the seriousness with which the issue of contamination poses toboth human health and the environment, JICA representative Professor Hosoi
emphasized the need for scholars to network to tackle the issue of heavy metalcontamination. The conference had three section which include keynote speeches
and lectures, poster presentation as well as oral presentations.
合計/Total87

人/Participants

内訳/Details
人数/ Number ofParticipants

出席者数
Number ofParticipants

国/Country

所属機関名/University Name

8

Professor

ZambiaUniversity of Zambia

1

Professor

Thailand

Chulalongkorn University

68

Student/
Professor

Japan

Hokkaido University

5Student

SerbiaMining and Metallurgy InstituteBor, Serbia

Student/
Japan
Akita University
Professor
1. Goals and objective of the conference were met which were exchange of ideas andrecent advances in the fields of sustainable resources management andenvironment protection.
2. Causes of lead contamination status of Kabwe, Zambia, how challenges can beaddressed and opportunities can be leveraged for better community.
3. Actions needed to further advance the cleanup in Kabwe to ensure theachievement of its goals and objectives are met for each group in the KAMPAI
5

シンポジウム開催による成果
Outcome

身分/Status今後の展望と課題
Future prospects
and issues
その他（本事業の要望等）
Comment for thegrant

project; and4. Conference presentations were proceeded from knowledge to application toevaluation of the contamination.
1. Interact with many colleagues with expert experience of the theme.
2. Share in the experiences and work of colleagues from the best-known
universities and industry across the world, such as in USA and Europe that have
had research work in heavy metal contamination and remediation
3. Establish international networks and contact colleagues from other countries
working on the same issues
none