Tokyo Institute of Technology has opened the international collaboration promotion base "Tokyo Institute of Technology ANNEX Berkeley" in Berkeley, California, USA. At the third base after Bangkok, Thailand in 2018 and Aachen, Germany in 2019, we aim to create international joint research themes and develop new collaborative education programs.
According to the Tokyo Institute of Technology, the establishment of a new base in the San Francisco Bay area, where the world's most advanced companies, universities, and research institutes will gather, will not only bring closer distances to local researchers and laboratories, but also bring researchers together. It will be possible to develop more diverse research activities than ever before by developing relationships and networks.
Furthermore, it is possible to accelerate the creation of innovation, enhance a wide range of international joint research from basics to applications, promote student exchanges between Japan and the United States, and develop a new international collaborative education program.
Vice President Tetsuya Mizuki said, "Collaboration with the United States, which drives the world's science and technology innovation by leveraging the strengths of creativity and diversity, is indispensable for advanced research activities. I want to do it. "
Berkeley is a small city on the eastern coast of San Francisco Bay with a population of about 11, but with the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, it is a land of active research activities.It is said to have the most progressive spirit in the United States and is also known as the birthplace of hippie culture in the 1960s.
