23 OCTOBERThe 9th Kobe University Brussels European Centre Symposium

Smart Cities, Secure Societies:
Breakthroughs in EU and Japan Research Cooperation
Organised jointly with Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Wednesday 24 October 2018
VENUE

Vrije Universiteit Brussel Conference Centre, U-Residence, Bld Général Jacques 271, 1050 Brussels.

8:45-9:15

REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE

9:15-10:00
A)

OPENING ADDRESSES

Moderator
Speakers

Introduction by the Moderator, Prof. Ken-ichi Yoshida, Kobe University (Japan)
Prof. Hiroshi Takeda, President, Kobe University (Japan)
Prof. Dr. Romain Meeusen, Vice-Rector for Internationalisation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
H.E. Mr. Kazuo Kodama, Ambassador of Japan to the European Union (Japan)
Mr. Patrick Child, Deputy Director-General, DG RTD, European Commission

10:00-13:30

PARALLEL SESSIONS

10:00-13:30

PARALLEL SESSION 1: RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FOR SECURE SOCIETIESROOM A)

10:00-11:35

Theme 1: Security Challenges in a Changing World

Moderator
Speakers

Prof. Kiyomitsu Yui, Kobe University (Japan)
Prof. Kan Kimura, Kobe University (Japan): Structural Changes in Northeast Asia: Between Rising Chinaand US Populism
Prof. Alexander Mattelaer, VUB Institute for European Studies, and Egmont Centre (Belgium)
Europe-Japan relations beyond the post-Cold War period
Prof. Kristian Cedervall Lauta, Copenhagen University (Denmark), Overcoming obstacles for disasterprevention: challenges and best practices from Europe and beyond
Prof. Piotr Kłodkowski, Jagiellonian University (Poland), The Issues of Political Security in South Asia andIts Implications for EU/NATO
Prof. Johanna Marta Guzik (on behalf of Prof. Adam Jelonek), Jagiellonian University (Poland): Foreign
migrants in Poland as entrepreneurs: the case of Asian-born communities
Prof. Hiroshi Okumura, Kobe University (Japan): ‘Memory’ preservation activity of in disaster areas and its
significance: from the Hanshin-Awaji to the Great East Japan Earthquakes.
Panel discussion animated by Moderator

11:35-11:55

Coffee and networking break

11:55-13:30

Theme 2: Disaster-Resilient Societies

Moderator
Speakers

Prof. Dr. Ives Hubloue, Vrije Universiteit Brusssel (Belgium)
Prof. Dr. Ives Hubloue, Vrije Universiteit Brusssel (Belgium): Saving lives: the use of new technologies indisaster medical response
Dr. Gerlant van Berlaer, Vrije Universiteit Brusssel (Belgium): Building disaster-resilient societies: the roleof technology, data-gathering and research
Prof. Osamu Tsukihashi, Kobe University (Japan): Lost Homes Project and Memories of Hometown
Prof. Akihiko Hokugo, Kobe University (Japan): Designing inclusive disaster risk reduction in hyperaging
society: assistive technologies to enhance community-based disaster preparedness
Panel discussion animated by Moderator(CONFERENCE ROOM(CONFERENCE

10:00-13:00
B)

PARALLEL SESSION 2: SMART CITIES, SMART SOCIETIES(CONFERENCE ROOM

10:00-11:35

Theme 1: Smart Cities: Energy and Mobility

Moderator
Speakers

Prof. Hisashi Tamaki, Kobe University (Japan)
Prof. Hisashi Tamaki, Kobe University (Japan): Energy grids: towards a self-sustainable decentralizedenergy systems
Prof. Chikara Ohta, Kobe University (Japan): Efficient and reliable packet transfer protocol for wirelessmulti-hop bidirectional communications
Prof. Joeri van Mierlo, VUB (Belgium): Sustainable mobility: breakthroughs in e-vehicles technologies
Prof. Thierry Coosemans, VUB (Belgium): Electric vehicles and decentralised energy production: e perfectmatch.

11:35-11:55

Coffee and networking break

11:55-13:30

Theme 2: Smart Cities: Citizens, Users and Life

ModeratorSpeakers

Prof. Zhi-wei Luo, Kobe University (Japan)
Prof. Cathy Macharis, VUB (Belgium): Rethinking mobility for a Human City
Prof. Zhi-wei Luo, Kobe University (Japan): Systematic innovation of health robotics for ageing societyProf. Nobutada Fujii, Kobe University (Japan): Urban design through a festival - a platform for research andeducation
Dipl.-Ing. Annegret Klein-Hessling, Aachen University (Germany): Electric mobility: infrastructures for fast
charging
Panel discussion animated by Moderator (Theme 1&2)

10:00-13:00
TRANSFERPARALLEL SESSION 3: BETWEEN ORIENT & OCCIDENT: CULTURAL MEMORY & CULTURAL(CONFERENCE ROOM C)

10:00-11:35

Theme 1: Historical Context

Moderator
Speakers

Prof. Hiroko Masumoto, Kobe University (Japan)
Prof. Marc Jacobs, VUB (Belgium): Breughel’s memory systems: safeguarding strategies in the Intangible
Cultural Heritage paradigm
Prof. Vakhtang Licheli, Tbilisi State University (Georgia): Unknown script of 10th c BC from Central
Transcaucasia as a result of international communication
Prof. Akira Furuichi, Kobe University (Japan): State formation and international relations inAncient Japan
Mr. Oscar Wrenn, University of East Anglia (UK): Cultural memory, world heritage and the universal valueof Japan’s sacred heritage
Panel discussion animated by Moderator

11:35-11:55

Coffee and networking break

11:55-13:30

Theme 2: Contemporary Challenges

Moderator
Speakers

Moderator: Prof. Yoshihiko Shiratori, Kobe University (Japan)
Prof. Alexander Kartozia, Tbilisi State University (Georgia): Tracing keywords: an insight into the Georgian
cultureProf. Toshio Miyake, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy): Is Japan ‘East’ or ‘West’? Civilization, nation
and race in fascist Italy
Prof. Andreas Regelsberger, Trier University (Germany): Theatre histories East-West: the construction ofidentities
Prof. Anne Sauvagnargues, Paris-Nanterre University (France): Deterritorialisierung – deterritorialization:
towards a new ecological encounter between East and West
Panel discussion animated by Moderator

13:30-14:30

NETWORKING LUNCH (JAPANESE-THEMED)
Short presentation on the new EU-Japan Joint Calls for proposals (Erasmus Mundus, InterUniversity Exchange Project) by Mr. Gianpaolo Suriano, European Commission DG EAC

14:30-17:00

OPEN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS AND BROKERAGE EVENTS

14:30-17:00

OPEN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP/BROKERAGE EVENT A:(CONFERENCEROOM A)
Evidence-based Disaster Medicine: how can technology improve the response?
Session producer/leader: Prof. Dr. Ives Hubloue, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Themes: Disaster response, disaster preparedness, medical data gathering, data transfer, patient tracking,hazard identification, remote patient monitoring, communication (Wifi, others), UAV

14:30-17:00

Prof. Ives Hubloue, ReGEDiM, VUB (Belgium)
Mr Gino Claes, Federal Public Service Health(Belgium)
Mr Anthony De Backer, Federal Public Service
Health (Belgium)
Mr Frank de Jong, ReGEDiM, VUB (Belgium)
Ms Justine Debosschere, Federal Public Service
Health (Belgium)
Ms Vanessa Debreyne, Federal Public ServiceHealth, B-FAST (Belgium)
Dr.Trevor Jain, University of Prince Edward Island(Canada)
Ms Klara Leroy, Federal Public Service Health(Belgium)

Mr Raman Madan, Federal Public Service Health(Belgium)
Prof. Stuart Hendry, CEO, Rinicom Ltd (UK)
Kingdom)
Dr Raido Paasma, University of Tartu (Estonia)
Dr Alina Petrica, SMURD (Romania)
Prof. Akihiko Hokugo, Kobe University (Japan)
Dr. Marcelo Farah Dell’Aringa, Università delPiemonte Orientale, CRIMEDIM (Italy)
Prof. Osamu Tsukihashi, Kobe University (Japan)
Dr Gerlant van Berlaer, ReGEDiM, VUB (Belgium)
Dr. Harald Veen, International Committee of the Red
Cross/WHO (Switzerland)

OPEN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP B(CONFERENCE ROOMB)
Rethinking Mobility, Reinventing Cityspaces: Smart Technologies for Smarter and More
Liveable Cities
Session producers/leaders: Prof. Tamaki and Prof. Luo, Kobe U, and Prof. Joeri van Mierlo, VUB
Themes: Drones and UAV, IoT and software engineering, service engineering, sensing, brain-computerinterface, robotics, intelligent vehicles, smart logistics.
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14:30-17:00
C)

Prof. Cathy Macharis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Prof. Joeri van Mierlo, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Prof. Takateru Urakubo, Kobe University (Japan): Development & flight test of a tilt-rotor
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Prof. Takeshi Uchitane, Kobe University (Japan): Sensing human mobility on a day-event via Wi-Fi
probe request signals
Prof. Sheng Cao, Kobe University (Japan): Research on human-robot interaction for the superageing societyProf. Thierry Coosemans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Mr. Kenji Matsuno, Mission of Japan to the European Union (Japan)

OPEN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP C:(CONFERENCE ROOM

Food, Culture and History: a Cultural/Culinary Anthropology of East-West ExchangesSession producer/leader: Prof. Hiroko Masumoto, Kobe University

17:00-17:15

Prof. Marc Jacobs, VUB (Belgium): Belgian waffles go East: a study in cross-cultural tastes
Dr. Rusdan Gorgiladze (Georgia): The Georgian flavor and the Georgian ‘Supra’
Prof. Ken-ichi Yoshida Kobe University (Japan): A global Japanese Icon: the tale of Japanese sake history, culture, and technology.
Prof. Vakhtang Licheli, Tbilisi State University (Georgia)
Prof. Akira Furuichi, Kobe University (Japan)
Prof. Toshio Miyake, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
Prof. Andreas Regelsberger, Trier University (Germany)
Prof. Yoshihiko Shiratori, Kobe University (Japan)
Prof. Anne Sauvagnargues, Paris-Nanterre University (France)
Mr Oscar Wrenn, University of East Anglia (UK)

CONCLUDING SESSION AND CLOSING REMARKS
Prof. Matsuto Ogawa, Vice-President, Kobe University

Prof. Dr. Romain Meeusen, Vice-Rector, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

17:15-18:30

NETWORKING RECEPTION AND DRINKS