Seasonal Programs

Due to the world-wide restrictions concerning Covid-19 and in order to protect the participants and lectures, these Summer Schools are offered in an online format this year. Tokyo Tech students are invited to participate in Summer Schools organized by IDEA League. These Summer Schools are conducted for students of the IDEA League member universities, and the ASPIRE League, in which Tokyo Tech is a member university, is annually invited to send its students as part of ongoing collaboration between the two Leagues.

Graduate students at Tokyo Tech
(For the Summer School organized by Chalmers University, only PhD students are eligible.)

Ⅰ. Politechnico di Milano Summer School
Ⅱ. TU Delft/ Politechnico di Milano / ETH Zurich Summer School
Ⅲ. RWTH Aachen Summer School
Ⅳ. Chalmers University of Technology Summer School

3 to 10 days in July and September, 2020

Free! There are no registration or participation fees.

One student for each summer school

Ⅰ. : Friday, June 12, 2020 at 17:00　Application closed
Ⅱ.Ⅲ.Ⅳ. : Friday, July 17, 2020 at 17:00

Call for Application
1.Application Form.xlsx
A copy of an email that shows your academic supervisor’s agreement is acceptable. (You do not need to obtain the supervisor’s signature or seal on the form.)
2. Official Transcripts (for all universities attended and including your current program, including your current program*
*The copy of your GRADES LIST from Tokyo Tech Web System is acceptable.
3. Certification of English language ability (copy of the original document)
**Certification is not required of IGP students

1) Nominations will be based on document screening. However, if there are multiple applicants for the same Summer School(s), online interviews will be held in the third week of June for I. and in the third week of July for Ⅱ. Ⅲ. Ⅳ. Please note that after the nomination from Tokyo Tech, the final selection will be made by the host university.
2) The individual course schedules will be determined once all participants have been selected.

International Cooperation Division
Tel: 03-5734-3016
Email:aspiretokyotech@jim.titech.ac.jp
※Send with the subject heading“IDEA League Online Summer School.

The IDEA League*1 has invited nominations from ASPIRE League＊2 member universities, including Tokyo Tech, for participants for the Doctoral School on Ethics of Science and Technology. Focused on developing critical awareness about the values that are embedded in science and technology throughout the lifecycle – from design to development, and management, control, production, adoption and use – the Doctoral School is organized around 3 main themes: responsibility, values and governance.
*1 A consortium of leading European universities of science and technology and is comprised of RWTH Aachen University in Germany, Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, ETH Zurich in Switzerland, Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and University Politecnico di Milano in Italy.
*2 A consortium established in 2009 consisting of 5 world-leading technical universities in Asia: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, KAIST, Nanyang Technological University, Tsinghua University, and Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Tokyo Tech PhD students

Module 1(Responsibility): RWTH Aachen
Module 2(Values): Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Module 3(Governance): University Politecnico di Milano

Module 1(Responsibility): 22 April 2021- 25 April 2021
Module 2(Values): 26 May 2021- 29 May 2021
Module 3(Governance): 23 June 2021- 26 June 2021

There are no registration or participation fees.

One student from Tokyo Tech

Call for Application
1.Application Form
*Please include a copy of an email that shows your academic supervisor’s agreement.
(You do not need to obtain the supervisor’s signature or seal on the form.)
2. Official Transcripts s (from both your master’s and doctoral programs)
*The copy of your GRADES LIST from Tokyo Tech Web System is acceptable.
3. Certification of English language ability (copy of the original document)
*This certification is not required of IGP students.

Submission: Send the application documents to International Cooperation Division (aspiretokyotech@jim.titech.ac.jp) in a password-protected file, and then send the password in a separate email.
Selection: The nomination will be based on document screening. If there are multiple applicants, online interviews will be held.

International Cooperation Division(South Building 6 3F 301B
Mailbox:S6-6
Tel: 03-5734-3016
Email: aspiretokyotech@jim.titech.ac.jp
※Please include “IDEA League Doctoral School” in the email subject line.