JISTEC

Winter Institute
Research Support Activities for Korean Graduate Students in Science and Technology

Last update 6 August. 2009  

The Winter Institute, a program for inviting South Korean graduate students (currently studying in doctorate or master’s programs) to Japanese independent administrative agencies, national research institutes and other facilities for approximately two months during the winter season, has been in operation since fiscal year 1993.
This project seeks to work through hands-on experiences of the research stances and methods (research training) practiced in Japan to create opportunities for Japanese-Korean joint research in industrial technology, and to support efforts to strengthen such research. The goal of these activities is to help foster human relations capable of advancing exchanges of industrial technology between Japan and South Korea, anticipating that this will contribute to raising the level of industrial technology in both nations.
Winter InstituteWinter Institute
Number of graduate students invited
FY 1993 23
FY 1994 38
FY 1995 39
FY 1996 39
FY 1997 41
FY 1998 49
FY 1999 48
FY 2000 44
FY 2001 44
FY 2002 47
FY 2003 38
FY 2004 40
FY 2005 20
FY 2006 20
FY 2007 19
FY 2008 34
FY 2009

40(projected)

The Winter Institute Program is sponsored by the Japan-Korea Industrial Technology Co-Operation Foundation (JKF) that is commissioned by the Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation (JKCF) under the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Japan International Science and Technology Exchange Center (JISTEC) will implement the program with the cooperation of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF).

Japan East Asia Network of Exchange for Students and Youths (JENESYS)

Host InstituteParticipant's University
Contact
Tokyo Toyama Kaikan Bldg, 5-1-3, Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 112-0001 Japan
TEL: +81-3-3818-0730ß FAX: +81-3-3818-0750

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