Cultural and Academic Exchange Programs

The 7th APRU Multi-Hazards Summer School will be held in Japan July 22 to 25 atTohoku University in collaboration with academic consortium AEARU*. This year's theme is “Supporting the interface between science and policy for decision making in disaster risk reduction (DRR).” Participants will understand the mechanism of international DRR strategy, learn from the experience and recovery process of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, learn from various DRR projects implemented in the Tohoku region and overseas, and discuss the roles of science, technology, and universities in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Tokyo Tech graduate students

IRIDes, Tohoku University (Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan)

Monday, July 22 – Thursday, July 25, 2019

There is no participation fee, and accommodation in Sendai will be provided for Tokyo Tech’s nominees. However, participants will be responsible for their own transportation to/from Sendai and other personal expenses. A stipend to cover some expenses may be provided by Tokyo Tech.

2 students

Call for Applications
1. Application Form_SummerSchool2019.xlsx
2. Official transcripts (for all universities attended and including your current program)
3. Certification of English language ability (copy of the original documents)

After document screening, an interview conducted in English will be held in

mid- to late May 2018. Details will be announced later.
*AEARU (The Association of East Asian Research Universities )

International Cooperation Division, Tokyo Tech
Tel: 03-5734-3016
Email:kokuren.aearu@jim.titech.ac.jp
(Send with the subject heading “AEARU Student Summer”)

Tokyo Tech students are invited to apply for enrollment in their choice of one of three self-paced online courses, free of charge, through the Tokyo Tech co-sponsored AEARU Summer Institute for Extended Flipped Education:

1) Modern Japanese Architecture, by Tokyo Tech Specially Appointed Professor David B. Stewart
2) Social Inequality in China, 1700-2000, in Comparative Perspective, by HKUST Professor James Lee
3) Java Programming Bridging Course, by HKUST Professor Ting Chuen Pong

Of those who complete this online learning program in February and March, about 50 selected students will advance to the AEARU Summer Institute, where they will have the opportunity to engage in face-to-face, intensive, extended learning sessions from July 15 to 19, 2019 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).Those who complete both the online course of their choice and the Summer Institute at HKUST will be awarded HKUST credits.

Tokyo Tech students (undergraduates and master’s students)

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China)

・February 11 – March 31, 2019 (Self-paced online course)
・July 15-19, 2019 (Summer Institute at HKUST)

・Access to the online courses is free of charge
・Students selected for the Summer Institute at HKUST are responsible for a 1,000 HKD registration fee, as well as travel insurance, airfare, and other personal expenses. A stipend to cover some expenses may be provided by Tokyo Tech. In the case of international students, only privately-funded students are eligible to receive the stipend.

*The online courses are open to all who enroll by the deadline.
*Two students from Tokyo Tech who complete one of the online courses with high grades will be eligible to join the July program at HKUST and will be offered free housing and tuition waiver for the duration of the program in Hong Kong. Notification regarding participant selection for the July program will be made in April.

[UPDATED] Call for Applications

Please complete and submit your application through HKUST’s online system.
After completing your application, please notify Tokyo Tech’s International Cooperation Division at kokuren.aearu@jim.titech.ac.jp that you have applied.
As for questions on the AEARU online course registration and HKUST online courses, please contact HKUST Virtual University at hkvu@ust.hk.
For questions on the Tokyo Tech online course, please contact Tokyo Tech's Online Education Development Office at oedo@citl.titech.ac.jp.
When sending an email, please indicate“AEARU Summer Institute 2019” in the email subject field.

・International Cooperation Division, Tokyo Tech
Tel: 03-5734-3016
Email:kokuren.aearu@jim.titech.ac.jp

・Online Education Development Office (OEDC)
Email:oedo@citl.titech.ac.jp

・HKUST Virtual University
Email:hkvu@ust.hk

(Send with the subject heading “AEARU Summer Institute 2019”)

8th AEARU Student Physical Competition will be held at Korea’s Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in August. Tokyo Tech students who would like to participate are invited to submit registrations. Participants will be able to enjoy several events, including watching a Rowing Competition, practice using a rowing machine, and going on an excursion.

Tokyo Tech students

Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea

Thursday, August 22 - Sunday, August 25, 2019

No registration fee. Accommodation of 3 nights (August 22, 23 and 24), meals and local transportation will be provided. Participants are responsible for airfare, travel insurance, round trip fares between the airport and POSTECH, and other personal expenses.

2 students

Call for Applications
8th AEARU Physical Competition Registration Form

To apply, submit the registration form to Tokyo Tech’s International Cooperation Division (kokuren.aearu@jim.titech.ac.jp) by June 7, 2019, indicating “8th AEARU SPC Registration” in the subject field. Tokyo Tech will nominate the first two applicants to POSTECH. POSTECH will notify nominees by June 17, 2019 if they have been accepted.

*Application and selection procedure has changed.

International Cooperation Division, Tokyo Tech
Tel: 03-5734-3016
Email:kokuren.aearu@jim.titech.ac.jp
(Send with the subject heading “8th AEARU Student Physical Competition”)

The University of Science and Technology (USTC), China, will host AEARU* Student Summer Camp 2018. The program, conducted in English, “is designed for talented undergraduate students who are currently studying at the AEARU member universities and who wish to create value through innovation as future scientists. During the Camp, participants will study the cutting-edge research at USTC, learn the experience of linking university and industry, see how years of fundamental research could give rise to spin-off company, and experience Anhui culture and traditions near Hefei area. The program consists of campus tours, laboratory visits, visits to spin-off high tech companies, city tour, cultural experiences, workshops, and various social events.”

Tokyo Tech undergraduate students

University of Science and Technology (Hefei, China）

Sunday, August 12 to Sunday, August 19, 2018

Every participant shall pay $150 US dollar as the registration fee upon arrival. The fee covers accommodation, parties, local transportation, and excursion to Yellow Mountain and Hongcun village during the program. Participants are required to purchase travel insurance before their departure. A stipend to cover some expenses may be provided by Tokyo Tech. In the case of international students, only privately-funded students are eligible to receive the stipend.

2 students

Call for Applications
1. AEARU Student Summer Camp 2018 Application Form
2. Official transcripts (for all universities attended and including your current program)
3. Certification of English language ability (copy of the original documents)

After document screening, an interview conducted in English will be held in

mid- to late May 2018. Details will be announced later.
*AEARU (The Association of East Asian Research Universities )

International Cooperation Division, Tokyo Tech
Tel: 03-5734-3016
Email:kokuren.aearu@jim.titech.ac.jp
(Send with the subject heading “AEARU Student Summer”)

Peking University (PKU), China will host AEARU* STEM Summer Camp 2018. Conducted as part of PKU’s Summer School International, the camp invites students from AEARU member universities to enroll in the summer course of their choice focused on “the frontier knowledge of Computer Science and Engineering.”　For more details, please refer to AEARU STEM Summer camp 2018 materials

Tokyo Tech undergraduate and graduate students

Peking University (Beijing, China）

Sunday, July 15 to Saturday, July 28, 2018

The tuition fee will be WAIVED for Tokyo Tech’s 4 nominees. Travel, accommodation, meals, insurance and other expenses are the responsibility of participants. (Accommodation fees of 150 RMB/day will be waived by PKU for up to 2 Tokyo Tech-nominated students who attend during the July 15 to 28 period.) A stipend to cover some expenses may be provided by Tokyo Tech. In the case of international students, only privately-funded students are eligible to receive the stipend.

4 students

Call for Applications
1. AEARU STEM Summer Camp 2018 Application Form
2. Official transcripts (for all universities attended and including your current program)
3. Certification of English language ability (copy of the original documents)
Incomplete documents will not be accepted.

After document screening, an interview conducted in English will be held in

mid- to late May 2018. Details will be announced later.
*AEARU (The Association of East Asian Research Universities )

International Cooperation Division, Tokyo Tech
Tel: 03-5734-3016
Email:kokuren.aearu@jim.titech.ac.jp
(Send with the subject heading “AEARU STEM Summer Camp”)

The 7th AEARU Environmental Workshop will be hosted by Tsinghua University. Tokyo Tech researchers and graduate students who would like to participate are invited to submit applications. The workshop is a session of the 13th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology (ICWMT) held in March 21-24, 2018 and will focus on “Resource Flow and Its Environmental Impact”.

Tokyo Tech Researchers and graduate students

Tsinghua, China

March 24, 2018

The fees for registration, meal, and two-night hotel for up to 3 participants from Tokyo Tech will be covered by Tsinghua University and those who wish to participate in the conference can register at discount rate.Participants are responsible for airfare, insurance, and other personal expenses.
Participants are responsible for insurance and other expenses.

A few students

Call for Application
Registration Form(Researcher)
Registration Form(Student)
Abstract of presentation
Full paper

(1)Filled out the Application Form, abstract of your presentation (A4, 1- page) and full paper directly email them to dsn17@mails.tsighua.edu.cn by February 10, 2017. When sending your submission by email, please send a carbon-copy of the email to Tokyo Tech’s International Cooperation Division kokuren.aearu@jim.titech.ac.jp as well. (2)Student participants are required to obtain permission for application from their supervisors.
(3) The deadline for workshop participants differs from that indicated on ICWMT website.

International Cooperation Division, Tokyo Tech
Tel: 03-5734-3016
Email:kokuren.aearu@jim.titech.ac.jp

Tokyo Tech will host "ASPIRE Forum 2019" in July at Tokyo Tech as a chair of the ASPIRE League. In conjunction with the annual forum, a student exchange program, "Student Workshop" will be held at Ookayama campus. Paticipants will attend lectures and participate in site visits on the theme "Better Living - Innovations and Technologies to Improve Lives." In teams comprised of student counterparts from ASPIRE League and IDEA League* member universities, participants will develop group presentations related to the workshop theme and deliver them to the ASPIRE League's Vice Presidents on the final day of the ASPIRE Forum.

Tokyo Tech graduate students

Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech)（Japan・Tokyo）

Monday, July 8 – Friday, July 12, 2019

There are no program participation fees. Tokyo Tech will provide the program, accommodations*, meals, local transportation, and site visit fees during the program. *Tokyo Tech students will stay at the same hotel with other participants.

5 students

Call for Applications.pdf
Tentative program.pdf
1. Application Form 1.doc
2. Official Transcripts
3. Certification of English language ability (copy of the original document)

An interview, conducted in English, will be held in mid to late May, 2019.
ASPIRE League (Official site) ASPIRE League (Tokyo Tech website)

International Cooperation Division, Tokyo Tech
Tel:03-5734-3016
Email:aspiretokyotech@jim.titech.ac.jp
(Send with the title “ASPIRE Forum 2019 Student Workshop”)

The ASPIRE Undergraduate Research Academy (UGRA), held annually, brings together undergraduates from Tokyo Tech, Tsinghua, NTU Singapore, HKUST and KAIST. This year, the UGRA will be held at KAIST with the theme “Better Living: Innovations and Technologies to Improve Lives (Architecture, Environment, AI, Robotics, Health, Medical Engineering, etc)”. Participants will attend lectures, conduct group work, and participate in site visits on the theme.

Tokyo Tech 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students (currently working on research projects related to the program theme)

KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Korea

Sunday, June 30 – Friday, July 5, 2019

There are no program participation fees. KAIST will provide the camp, as well as accommodations and meals during the program. Students are responsible for their travel insurance, airfare, local transportation and personal expenses. (A stipend to cover some expenses may be provided by Tokyo Tech. In the case of international students, only privately-funded, degree-seeking students are eligible to receive the stipend.)

5 students

Call for Applications
Tentative program
1. Application Form

2. Official Transcripts
3. Certification of English language ability (copy of the original document)

An interview, conducted in English, will be held on in mid- or late May 2019.
ASPIRE League (Official site) ASPIRE League (Tokyo Tech website)

International Cooperation Division, Tokyo Tech
Tel:03-5734-3016
Email:aspiretokyotech@jim.titech.ac.jp
(Send with the title “ASPIRE Undergraduate Research Academy”)

LIYSF is a two week residential event held at Imperial College London, with lectures and demonstrations from leading scientists, visits to industrial sites, research centres, scientific institutions and organisations, including world class laboratories and universities. LIYSF attracts 500 of the world's leading young scientists aged 16-21 years old from about 70 countries.

Second year undergraduate student or above at TokyoTech (Please refer the call for application for other requirements)

London, UK

24th July – 7h August, 2019

Participation fee is £1,995 per student
*The fee covers the total cost of the programme over 15 days; all meals and accommodation, lectures and demonstrations, scientific visits and entrance charges, travel to all programmed events and the social programme. The fee does not cover airfare, crisis management and travel insurance fee, costs relating to VISA application, optional sightseeing tours, theatre tickets, etc.
For more information, please see LIYSF website

Approximately 5 students

15:00, April 16, 2019

Call for Application

1.Application Form1

2.Application Form2

3.Official Transcripts (for all universities attended and including your current program)

4.Certification of English language ability (a copy of original documents)

An interview will be conducted on the afternoon of April 24, 2019.

International Student Exchange Division (Ookayama Campus, South Bldg. 6, 3 Fl., Room 308）
TEL：03-5734-7645
Email：hakenryugaku@jim.titech.ac.jp

Tokyo Tech students are invited to participate in Global Entrepreneurship Camp 2019 organized by KAIST. Please note that after applicant interviews conducted in English. Tokyo Tech will nominate one student to participate in the program. The program is conducted for students of partner universities of KAIST.

Tokyo Tech undergraduates (2nd year or above) or graduate students

KAIST, Korea

Sunday, July 7 – Saturday, July 13, 2019

There are no program participation fees. KAIST will provide the camp, as well as accommodations and meals during the program. Students are responsible for their travel insurance and risk management service fees, airfare, local transportation and personal expenses. (A stipend to cover some expenses may be provided by Tokyo Tech. In the case of international students, only privately-funded, degree-seeking students are eligible to receive the stipend.)

3 Students

Call for Applications
1. Application Form designated by Tokyo Tech
2. Application Form designated by KAIST
3. Official Transcripts
4. Certification of English Language Ability (copy of original document)

An interview, conducted in English, will be held in mid- to late May 2019. Details will be announced later.
Programme Website(KAIST)

International Cooperation Division, Tokyo Tech
Tel:03-5734-3016
Email:aspiretokyotech@jim.titech.ac.jp
(Send with the title “KAIST Entrepreneurship Camp 2019”)

A 3-day intensive training program in problem solving and creative idea to solve world-scale problems for approximately 40 graduate school students (from doctoral, master's degree program and professional master's degree program), international exchange students and individual workers, with different academic or professional background.
"Glocal" is new internationalization viewpoint that develops an excellent technology and idea from a local scale to a global scale.
This program, titled "Design for Humanity - Eat to Delight" focuses on how to materialize closeness to person and how to develop an individual's invention to worldwide innovation.
Participating graduate students from doctoral and master's programs in mixed group, through discussions, activities, modeling, and poster presentation, can acquire the ability of leadership, interdisciplinary knowledge, and communication, not only to lead a team as a researcher or an entrepreneur but also to create a collaboration, to establish networks with researchers in other specialties and to understand the extraprofessional knowledge and a new viewpoint by cultural exchange.
On the final day, each team will participate in poster presentation. Teams with reasonable proposals will receive an award.

Who can participate for the 3 days from morning to afternoon.
Graduate Student (Master's Program, Professional Master's Degree Program, and Doctoral Program), Research Student*, Special Auditing Student**, International Exchange Student*
*About detail, see the Application Guide.

W933, 3F, West Bldg. 9, Ookayama West Area, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Monday, September 2, 2019 - Wednesday, September 4, 2019

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Approximately 40 persons

Wednesday, July 31, 2019. Before 17:00.
*Deadline date may be extended if we have vacant seats

Application Guide
Application Form

See, Glocal Summer School Program in Tokyo Tech

Poster

Glocal School Desk
Email:contact@ggs.shs.ens.titech.ac.jp
(Send with the title “Glocal Summer School”)

The International Student Energy Summit 2019 is an interdisciplinary summit created for students by students. Our mission? To spearhead the energy transition towards a more sustainable and equitable future.

Following topics are the foundation of this programme.
・Empowering Young Energy Learders
・Energy in a Changing Climate
・An Interdisciplinary Approach
・Enacting the Equitable Transition
・Integrating Technology
・Deligate Led Discussion

Over the course of four days, 650 delegates from all corners of the world will attend inspiring talks from +50 academic, industry and policy leaders. Our programme encompasses industry & technology, society & environment, markets & finance, and youth empowerment.

current undergraduate or postgraduate student

Imperila College London and other venues near by.

July 17th to 20th 2019

The full registration fees are £500 but the majority of students will receive partial bursaries.　The registration fees include: access to sessions, networking and social events, accomodation for 3 nights, all meals for the duration, transportaion from provided accomodation to the venue and conference kit.

600 students

Applications are reviewed continuously and invitaions are sent out up until May and will stop accepting applications once the limit is reached.

【Application to attend】
Fill out a form (the link below) with basic details about you and your academic background as well as your motivation for attendint the summit. You will also submit your CV or resume. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSduwFwUUXn_kZWR6ULpP7-GQFEpbeIg_zmBCaQV7UlKkXZCRw/viewform

【Report to Tokyo Tech】
After sending the application, please notify with the email (subject Student Energy Summit2019) to International Student Exchange Div. (email: hakenryugaku@jim.titech.ac.jp)

※Tokyo Tech requires students to purchase travel insurance (AIG General Insurance Company, Ltd.) .For overseas travel insurance, the coverage should be; medical treatment and rescue up to 30,000,000JPY also indemnity liability up to 100,000,000JPY.

The SES 2019 Committee
Email:ses2019@studentenergy.org