Co-working of industry-government-academia on Arctic issues- Footprints of Japan Arctic Research Network Center(J-ARC Net) -Masato TANAKA1, Yasushi FUKAMACHI2
and Natsuhiko OTSUKA2
1Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO), Tokyo, Japan(former : Arctic

Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan)
2Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Japan Arctic Research NetworkCenter(J-ARC Net)

Supporting Arctic research communities

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Jointresearch

1117

11

19

12

20

participants

57

105

70

132

89

166

Researchmeeting

77

57

44participants

89

73

41

88

51

76

Number of joint research project

35

Table-1 Joint research for supporting
research communities

30
25
20
15

10502016
Observation
Industrial
Other2017

2018

2019

EcologicalPolicy, Economy

2020

2021

Social, Regional
Promotion

Fig.3 Joint research fields

Promoting industry- academia-government
collaboration
140

Table-2 Industry- academia-government
collaboration
2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Joint
feasibility
study

344

3

3

4

participants

24

Joint
feasibility
study
meeting2

participants

18

444

29

28

35

Number of institutions

120
100
80
60

40
200326217328

331

463

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Private sector
Governmental organization
University

Fig.2 Collaboration of various
institutions

2021

Arctic Open Seminars
Table-3 List of Open Seminars
Year
2016

the Arctic Sea Route and utilization of the Arctic

2017

Utilization of the Arctic Ocean

2017

Innovation and utilization of Arctic regions

2017

Law, Policy, International Relation, and Economics overthe Arctic
Latest Science, and Technology of the Arctic

2018
2018
2019
2019
2020
2020
2021
2021

Title

Feasibility and possibility of the Technology on Arctic
Observation and Prediction
Changing Arctic Environment and It’s Effect to theHokkaido Region
Crude oil and Natural Development in the Arctic
Sustainable Use of the Arctic Ocean as an East-WestCorridor
Optic Fiber Cable Across the Arctic Ocean, Japan-Finland
Joint Seminar
Changing Arctic Environment under Climate Change
The development of sustainable cruise industry in thePacific Arctic: Past developments and future prospects
J-ARC Net & UArctic Joint Seminar

Open seminars had been promoted in orderto share the latest information, knowledge
and to expand network on the Arctic issues.
Through the six years activities, 12 open
seminars were carried out and more than
1,000 participants gathered.
Third Open Seminar "Innovation andutilization of Arctic regions" (2017)12th OpenSeminarhttps://youtu.be/ltGgtcOEjGECapacity building and nurturing Arctic experts“Introduction to Arctic studies” provided a series oflectures on natural science and social science andhumanities by various Arctic researchers to industry
and government experts, and university students.
The lectures provided about 200 pages of textbook to
the participants

By cooperation with The North Eastern Federal
University(Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia) andFar Eastern Federal University(Vladivostok, Russia),
the winter school was conducted three times (2017,2018, 2019) in Russia for 21 participants including
students and business-peoples in JapanAt Hokkaido
University(Sapporo)

At JOGMEC(Tokyo)

Fig. 5 Winter School in Yakutsk (2019)

Summary⚫ Funding joint research activities andresearch meetings that aims atchallenging Arctic problems throughinterdisciplinary
collaboration,
promoting
exploratory
research
regarding the Arctic.
⚫ Promoting
industrygovernment collaboration

academia-⚫ Capacity building and nurturing Arctic
experts:
Lecture course of Introduction to Arctic
studies, winter schools, Arctic Introductory
Lecture for Citizens,
Mailing list for 600 members,
Supporting International Symposium on
Okhotsk Sea & Polar Oceans

During its funding period, over 1500
researchers from Japan and othercountries have participated in J-ARC
Net-supported collaborative studies.
The Arctic open seminars havegathered over 1000 participants. We
have managed to considerably expand
the scope of the Arctic-related
research and partnerships.
Acknowledgement
Authors gratefully acknowledge the member
organization of J-ARC Net, NIPR and JAMSTEC for
their tireless support. And also acknowledge Dr. SeiIchi Saito(Prof. Emeritus of Hokkaido Univ.), Prof.
Hiroyuki Enomoto(Vice Director-General, NIPR), andDr. Takeshi Kawano(Executive Director, JAMSTEC),
who were founding member of J-ARC Net.