FP7 project and Internationalization of Research at WASEDA

“Horizon 2020 – New opportunities for Japanese researchers to join international projects”

Delegation of the European Union to Japan (Europa House)

April 14th, 2014

Naoto Kobayashi Waseda University

Center for Research Strategy 1

1. Waseda University and Vision 150

2. FP7 projects at Waseda University

3. International Collaboration and

Hope to Horizon 2020

4. Conclusions

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Contents

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Waseda University

Founded in 1882

◆Academic Organizations 10 Faculties 13 Undergraduate Schools 18 Graduate Schools 6 Professional Graduate Schools

9 Campuses (Tokyo 6, Saitama 2, Fukuoka 1) 1 Schools of Arts and Architecture 2 High Schools 5 Affiliated High Schools

◆Enrollments Students: 56,751 (as of May 2013) (44,295 Undergraduates, 9,281 Postgraduates) Faculty 5,455 (2,137 full-time, 3,318 part-time) Staff 1,264 (819 full-time, 445 part-time)

By Enhancing Quality of Education and Research, Waseda declares “A Commitment to the World as an Asia’s Leading University”

～Waseda Vision 150 was named to make the 150th-year anniversary ～

Waseda Vision 150

【Strategic Objective 1】Students of the highest caliber and character who show promise in being able to contribute to the world

【Strategic Objective 2】Research that will ultimately contribute to real world peace and happiness in human

→Promotion of Original Research and Enhancement of the Ability to Deliver This Internationally

【Strategic Objective 3】Graduates who will contribute to the public good as global leaders

【Strategic Objective 4】Asia’s premier “model university” adaptable to a

changing world

Education and Research Vision

University Management Vision

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FP7 Activities in Waseda

International Support of a Common Awareness and Knowledge Platform for Studying and Enabling Independent Living

Prof. Shuji Hashimoto (Faculty of Science and Engineering) Total Budget: 587,150 euro

Capsil Project (2008.4.01~2010.3.31)

GR:EEN Project (2011.3.1~ for 48months)

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RoboSoM Project (2009.12.01~2013.5.31)

A Robotic Sense of Movement Prof. Atsuo Takanishi (Faculty of Science and Engineering) Total Budget: 1,659,000 euro

Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks Prof. Shujiro Urata (Faculty of International Research and Education) Total Budget: 7,944,718 euro

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International Support of a Common Awareness and Knowledge Platform for Studying and Enabling Independent Living

Support Action (Apr 2008 – Mar 2010) Theme FP7-ICT-2007.7.1 Goals

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Dr. Aaron Quigley

Dr. Benjamin Knapp

Prof. Misha Pavel

Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang

Prof. Antonio Camurri

Prof. Shuji Hashimoto

Prof. Paolo Bonato

Dr. Michael McGrath

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CAPSIL Meeting Tokyo Japan in 2009

© CAPSIL 17/Mar/2009

Equipments of the Room

Re-configurable Movable Island-type Dining-Kitchen Table

Double Flooring

Free Pipe Arrangement for Dining-Kitchen Table

Variable Transparency Wall Screen

Sanitary Room

Household Working Room

RFID Tag installed at 30-cm intervals

Pseudolite

RFID Tags

Indoor GPS Pseudolite

Environment structuring

WABOT-HOUSE Project in Gifu .

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www.robosom.eu

Project Coordinator: Prof. Paolo Dario

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA) Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33 – Pisa (Italy) Tel: +39-050883420 Fax: +39-050883497

e-mail: paolo.dario@sssup.it

Contract number: FP7-248366

Start date: December 1, 2009

Project duration: 36 months

Activities codes: ICT-2009.2.1 Challenge 2: “Cognitive Systems,

Interaction and Robotics”

Project cost: 2.163.237 €

EC contribution: 1.659.000 €

Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna, Pisa (Italy) Paolo Dario paolo.dario@sssup.it

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (France) Alain Berthoz alain.berthoz@college-de-france.fr

Istituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (Portugal) José Santos-Victor jasv@isr.ist.utl.pt

Waseda University, Tokyo (Japan) Atsuo Takanishi takanisi@waseda.jp

The RoboSoM project involves four partners from: Italy, France, Portugal, Japan

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RoboSoM aims at the study and robotic implementation of a model of the sense of movement, that endows a humanoid robot with advanced perception and action capabilities in biped locomotion, based on a unified inertial reference frame and on predictive behavior. This implementation in a very advanced humanoid robot will lead to enhanced performance in the real world, in terms of capability of accomplishing practical and helpful tasks.

Two main ideas relate to the concept of sense of movement: 1. the integration of a variety of sensory

signals, mostly proprioceptive: the brain uses this information to generate a unified inertial reference frame, centred in the head, that allows whole-body coordinated movements and head-oriented locomotion;

2. in humans, perception is not just the interpretation of sensory signals, but a prediction of consequences of actions. Perception can be defined as a simulated action: perceptual activity is not confined to the interpretation of sensory information but it anticipates the consequences of action (Expected Perception).

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Neuroscientists and mathematicians design the experiments to perform on human locomotion, based on the current relevant advances and the knowledge needed in Robotics and Neuroscience research.

The scientific objective is to validate the new and extended model of whole-body coordination in human walking. The methodology of the human experiments used to capture locomotor path and gaze movements will require VICON motion system and eye tracker system. Exchanges between neuroscience and robotics are the key point of the human model integration to the RoboSoM system.

The final objective of the RoboSoM project is the integration of the visual apparatus in the robotic biped platform, able to execute head stabilization during locomotion, and the implementation of the human-gaze guided locomotion model.

The robot will be able to: straight walk to reach a visual target,

also with obstacles avoidance follow a moving target free walk in different and unknowing environment.

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Starting Date 01/03/2011 (for 48 months) FP7-SSH-2011 Estimated eligible costs (whole duration of the project) 10,158,762.60 euro Requested EU contribution 7,944,718.00 euro Partners

1. THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK (United Kingdom) 2 UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM (Netherlands) 3 UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES (Belgium) 4 COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL CBS (Denmark) 5 KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM CEU (Hungary) 6 FUNDACION PARA LAS RELACIONES INTER NACIONALES Y EL DIALOGO EXTERIOR FRIDE (Spain) 7 ISTITUTO PER GLI STUDI DI POLITICA INTERNAZIONALE (Italy) 8 NORSK UTENRIKSPOLITISK INSTITUTT (Norway) 9 UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY - Comparative Regional Integration Studies UNU-CRIS (Belgium) 10 THE TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY (United States) 11 UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (South Africa) 12 FACULTAD LATINOAMERICANA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES (Argentina) 13 NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Singapore) 14 PEKING UNIVERSITY (People's Republic of China) 15 THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (Australia) 16 WASEDA UNIVERSITY (Japan)

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Global Re-ordering: Evolution through European Networks

GR:EEN Work Packages WP 1 European Actor-Networks in a Multi-Polar World: Stocktaking and Theory WP 2 The European Union and Global governance: Multilateralism in an emerging Multi-polar World WP 3 The Role of Regional Leadership in Multi-Polarity: The EU, the Americas, Asia, Africa & the Pacific WP 4 Europe and Global Public Policy 1: Human Rights and Security WP 5 Europe and Global Public Policy 2: Energy and Environment WP 6 Europe and Global Public Policy 3: Trade and Finance WP 7 Foresight WP 8 Impact and Dissemination WP 9 Management WP 10 GREEN Fund

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Workshop at Waseda University

Regional Leadership, Norms and Diversity: Comparing the Asia-Pacific with Europe

Waseda University, Tokyo 29-30 January 2013

Effects of FP7 Projects Formation of tight International network through FP7

projects has been very effective for the substantial research results and for the future collaboration.

Different background of society and different approaches of research to the common objective (e.g. aging society) have helped the evolution of research effectively.

Future crucial global or societal issues are found through the international and multilateral collaboration.

Nurture of young diverse researchers is one of the important results of FP7 projects.

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International Collaboration

Innovation is necessary to solve the crucial problems in the world, such as global warming, aging population, unemployment, health and medical care, economic crisis etc.

International collaboration is essential to create effective innovation for the common problems in the world with different ideas, technologies, resources and environments.

International collaboration in basic science including social sciences, humanities and natural sciences is also important to find the essential problems in the future.

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Center for Research Strategy

Direction & Actions

Research Council

Operating concrete plans

support Participating projects

Research Congress

Strategic thinking

Research Promotion

Division

Decision of strategic research policy

Analysis & evaluation

support Strategic themes

Data-based analysis for planning

Faculties

WTLO

Strategic Research System Strategic Research System in Waseda

Overseas Bases of Waseda University

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Waseda Education (Bangkok,Thailand,2003)

Beijing Office (China, 2004)

Waseda Oregon Office（Portland, U.S.A., 1999）

KU Liaison Office (Korea, 2002)

Singapore Office (2004) Waseda Shibuya Senior High School (2002) Waseda-Olympus Bioscience Research Institute (2004)

Shanghai Office (China,2004)

Europe Center（Bonn, Germany, 1991）

Paris Office（France,2005）

Waseda USA（New York, U.S.A., 2008）

Waseda University – Tokyo –

(founded in 1882)

Number of institutions with co-authored publications with Waseda University in recent 5 years

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International Collaborating Institutions (1)

North America 283

Europe 412

Africa 15

South America 29

Asia Pacific 581

Middle East 32

Number of institutions with co-authored publications with Waseda University in recent 5 years in Europe

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International Collaborating Institutions (2)

EUIJ Waseda

First phase of operations (2009 to July 2013) Second phase of operations (August 2013-) • The first EUIJ Institute to be established at a single university in

Japan. • The EUIJ Waseda strives to strengthen the multi-dimensional EU-

Japan partnership in the 21st century. Activities • Academic Activity (EU Studies Minor/Certificate Program, Course, EU Thesis Essay Contest, EU Research Scholarship )

• Outreach Activity • Academic Exchange

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Erasmus Mundus

• Action 1: Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes • Action 1A: Erasmus Mundus Master Courses (EMMC) • Faculty of Political Science and Economics

• Action 1B: Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorates (EMJD) • Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration(GIARI) • Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies

• Action 2: Erasmus Mundus Partnerships • Action 2-Strand 2: Partnerships with countries and territories

covered by the Industrialised Countries Instrument (ICI) • School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Faculty of

Science and Engineering

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Horizon 2020 is expected to support the diverse and novel aspects of the research through international collaboration to challenge societal issues facing EU and the world.

International research collaboration with simplified access is effective to create innovation due to diversity in the research field, interest, resource etc. in the world.

Review of FP7 will help the promotion of Horizon 2020 especially from the international point of view.

Support to small- and medium-scale but long-term research is also important to pioneering new research field.

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Hope to Horizon 2020

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Conclusions Excellent science and technology is the basis of the

future safe, stable and sustainable world.

International collaboration in the field of research and innovation is essential to develop, attract and retain research talent who pioneering the new aspects of the future world.

Diverse research - basic and applied, inter- and trans-disciplinary, academic and practical – should be promoted widely with diverse researchers in the world.

Thank you for your attention!!

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