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2025.07.03　[Report] SSS&ISE Interdisciplinary Matching Workshop 2025 Spring was held.

Matching Workshop2025 Spring

Super Smart Society Promotion Consortium holds matching workshops twice a year, providing a platform for students to present their research findings and ideas, with the aim of matching them with the needs of consortium partners.

This time, as a first step toward achieving the goals of the Super Smart Society Promotion Project 2.0 — namely, fostering future talent to lead a super smart society and creating new industries through organic collaboration among academia, industry, and government; and expanding beyond conventional fields such as science, engineering, and informatics to include areas like medicine, dentistry, and nursing, thereby promoting the practice of convergence science through interdisciplinary integration — two consortiums under the Institute of New Industry Incubation, the Super Smart Society Promotion Consortium (SSS) and the InfoSyEnergy Research and Education Consortium (ISE), jointly held a workshop.

In addition to students and faculty from the science and engineering fields, students from the medical and dental fields, as well as those from Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, also participated, making the workshop a highly successful event.

This workshop was designed as a venue for presentations and dialogue with a focus on the new vision of Science Tokyo, ‘Visionary Initiatives (VI)’, announced in April 2025.
For more details about ‘VI’, please see the following URL.
https://www.isct.ac.jp/en/017/research/visionary-initiatives

[Event Overview]

  • ■ Date: June 4, 2025(Wednesday) 13:00-20:00
  • ■ Place: Science Tokyo Front　Kuramae Hall, Royal blue Hall
  • ■ Participants: Partners/82 participants from 24 partners, 58 Students, 44 faculty, 12 Staff, TOTAL 196（*the highest ever）
  • ■ Successful matches: 16 partners x 30 students, TOTAL 81（*the highest ever）
  • ■ Event Site: HERE

Seeds Round

Scene from Seeds Round Scene from Seeds Round

Following the opening ceremony, the Seeds Round began with 58 students presenting their research findings, divided into two sessions.

Although the poster presentations took place in two separate venues, participants energetically moved around the sites, referring to handouts that detailed the exhibits. Lively and earnest discussions were held in various areas throughout the event.

Needs Round

Scene from Needs Round Scene from Needs Round

In the Needs Round, Partners introduced their initiatives and displayed actual equipment at individual booths.

Each partner’s representatives responded attentively to students’ inquiries, sharing insights based on their own experiences as well as the materials they had brought with them. In the post-event survey, students commented that they had had more time to interact with the partner representatives. The feedback suggested that many students were especially drawn to the opportunity for direct interaction with the companies.

Networking

Scene from Networking Scene from Networking

The networking part commenced in a casual and friendly atmosphere, following a toast offered by Mr. Imai of NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL).

The tables were arranged according to 7 discussion themes, — ‘Smart Infrastructure and Maintenance’, ‘Energy’, ‘Smart Nursing’, ‘Social & Human Science’, ‘Ocean’, ‘Smart Agriculture’, ‘To be a WISE-SSS, ISE student’ — allowing participants to engage in discussions while enjoying light refreshments.

Best seed award ceremony

Group photo of the award recipients Group photo of the award recipients

Finally, based on the votes cast by partners, an award ceremony was held to recognize 6 students for their outstanding presentations.

After the award recipients gave their acceptance speeches with joy, we received closing remarks on the workshop from Mr.Hamasaki of Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC. The event concluded on a high note, with active participation and great success.

Voices

[Student Voices]

“This workshop was a valuable experience for me. Engaging directly with the partners proved highly rewarding, and I hope to build on this opportunity through a collaborative research project.”

“I hope that more students and companies from the medical and life sciences fields can be involved. With the recent university integration, hosting the event in Yushima campus could encourage greater participation from the medical and dental faculties, potentially leading to deeper interdisciplinary collaboration.”

“The workshop was well-organized, timely, and conducted with professionalism. The communication and advance sharing of presentation materials were extremely helpful in preparing effectively for the event.”

“Overall, it was a valuable opportunity to engage with different research groups and explore potential collaborations.”

[Partner Voices]

“This year, the event welcomed students from other universities as well, and with an expanded venue, it was particularly impressive to see an even broader range of presentation topics than in previous years.”

“I was deeply moved to see how earnestly company representatives listened to the students’ presentations and how they were actively seeking new possibilities for collaboration. I felt that providing opportunities like this for students is meaningful and valuable.”

The workshop turned out to be a highly rewarding experience for both partners and students.
We will continue to create opportunities to foster new collaborations among industry, government, and academia.

Participating Partners of this workshop

● Information Technology and Human Factors, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
● RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
● National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST)
● Azbil Corporation
● aptpod,Inc.
● NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL)
● Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
● KDDI CORPORATION
● Koden Electronics Co., Ltd.
● JTEKT CORPORATION
● DENSO Corporation
● Tokyu Research Institute, Inc.
● TOSHIBA CORPORATION
● Tressbio Laboratory Co., Ltd.
● NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
● FUJITSU LIMITED
● Mazda Motor Corporation
● Rakuten Mobile, Inc.
● Iwata City
● Kanto Head Office, Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, JAPAN
● Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA)
● IMRA Japan Co., Ltd.
● Mitsui O.S.K.Lines
● Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC

Affiliated laboratory

■【VI CATEGORY】Visionary Initiatives H1 Total Health Design

■【VI CATEGORY】Visionary Initiatives H2 Well-Vitality Science

■【VI CATEGORY】 Visionary Initiatives S1 Innovative-Life Society

  • ● School of Engineering　Information and Communications Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Systems and Control Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engerineering and Economics (Hasegawa Shoich Lab, Hiroyuki Uenohara Lab, Kei Sakaguchi Lab, Kazuhiro Nakadai Lab, Kodera Tetsuo Lab, Hideharu Takahashi Lab, Takaaki Manaka Lab, Dai Senoo Lab, Takashi Tokuda Lab, Kenichi Okada Lab, Natsue Yoshimura Lab, Takeshi Hatanaka Lab）
  • ● School of Computing　Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence (Sato Ikuro Lab, Koichi Shinoda Lab)
  • ● School of Environment and Society　Architecture and Building Engineering (Takuya Oki Lab)
  • ● School of Medical and Dental Sciences　Biomedical Sciences and Engineering (Yoshikazu Nakajima Lab)
  • ● School of Materials and Chemical Technology　Chemical Science and Engineering (Hajime Arai Lab)

■【VI CATEGORY】Visionary Initiatives S2 Space Innovation

  • ● School of Engineering　Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Okada Kenichi Lab, Hirokawa & Tomura Lab)

■【VI CATEGORY】Visionary Initiatives E1 GX Frontier

  • ● School of Environment and Society　Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering (Atsushi Ishikawa Lab)
  • ● School of Engineering　Systems and Control Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Economics, Information and Communications Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Hidenori Kosaka Lab, Takeshi Hatanaka Lab, Yosuke Kimura Lab, Mahfuzul Islam Lab, GIA KHANH TRAN Lab）
  • ● School of Materials and Chemical Technology　Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Science and Engineering （Hajime Arai Lab, Kota Suzuki Lab, Yuta Nabae Lab, Manabu Ihara Lab, Teruoki Tago Lab, Yoshinao Kobayashi Lab）

■【VI CATEGORY】Visionary Initiatives E2 Resilience-Tech Society

■ Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

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Super Smart Society Promotion Consortium

Open Call for Membership

Science Tokyo has been launching a consortium to promote the realization of Super Smart Society (Society 5.0), and planning to develop future leaders who are capable of supporting the transformation to Super Smart Society. To accomplish this aim, Science Tokyo is looking for highly motivated companies who wish to join this consortium and support this education program.
Super Smart Society Promotion Consortium

Application

If you wish to become a member of this consortium, please agree to the terms and conditions, complete the admission application form and send it to the address below. Super Smart Society Promotion Consortium Secretariat ※Please change the [at] part to @ when sending.