MIRAI 2.0 TEG Ageing Workshop -Unlocking potential for new collaborations

Day 1 September 28: 9:00 am-12 noon (CEST) - 16 pm-19 pm (JST) 

Keynote: Ageing in Japan and Sweden (15-20 minutes)

Speakers: Professor Ken Osaka, Tohoku University and Associate Professor Anna Sandgren, Linnaeus University.
Presentations and reflections on the view of ageing in Japan and Sweden.

Keynote: Past, present and future TEG ageing (20 minutes)
Speakers: Professor Takayuki Akimoto, Waseda University and Professor Carl-Johan Boraxbekk, Umeå University.
Presentation of TEG ageing and the three topics.
Long term purpose and goal of TEG ageing and how this and the workshop fit with the larger MIRAI 2.0 goal.

Researchers divided in groups for working with project ideas, mentored by senior researchers:

• researchers that have already found a counterpart for a project application
• researchers that have not yet found a counterpart but is looking for one (the TEG should form the groups based on information collected during registration)

Day 2 September 29: 9:00 am-12 noon (CEST) - 16 pm-19 pm (JST) 

Keynote: Experiences of research collaboration between Japan and Sweden (15 minutes)

Speaker: Associate Professor Ayako Hiyoshi, Örebro University

Keynote: MIRAI and beyond- a successful collaboration from MIRAI 2017 (15 minutes)
Speakers: Assistant Professor Rong Fu and Professor Haruko Noguchi, Waseda University with Associate Professor Mojgan Padyab and Associate Professor Glenn Sandström, Umeå University

Presentation of the call for seed funding (10 minutes)

Speaker: Noriko Morisue, Project coordinator MIRAI 2.0, Tetsuya Yamamoto , Project coordinator (assistant) MIRAI 2.0, Nagoya University and Linn Gabrielsson, Project coordinator MIRAI 2.0, The University of Gothenburg.
Call MIRAI 2.0 – Joint seed funding of Japan-Sweden collaborative projects.

Researchers divided in groups (2 hours):

• researchers that have already found a counterpart for a project application
• researchers that have not yet found a counterpart but is looking for one

Summary of workshop (15 minutes)
Speaker: Associate Professor Anna Sandgren, Linnaeus University

• Inventory of possible project applications
• Suggestions on focus areas RiW Japan 2022

Japan

• Takayuki AKIMOTO, Professor, School of Sport Science, Waseda University
• Rong FU, Assistant Professor, School of Commerce, Waseda University
• Haruko NOGUCHI, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
• Noriko MORISUE, Project coordinator MIRAI 2.0, Nagoya University
• Ken OSAKA, Professor and Vice-Dean, School of Dentistry, Tohoku University
  Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science
• Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Project coordinator (assistant) MIRAI 2.0, Nagoya University

Sweden

• Carl-Johan BORAXBEKK, Professor at Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University
• Linn GABRIELSSON, Project coordinator MIRAI 2.0, The University of Gothenburg
• Ayako HIYOSHI, Associate Professor, School of Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Researcher, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
• Mojgan PADYAB, Associate professor at Department of Social Work, Umeå University and Centre for Demographic and Aging Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University
• Anna SANDGREN, Associate Professor, Department of Health and Caring Sciences, Director Center for Collaborative Palliative Care, Linnaeus University
• Glenn SANDSTRÖM, Associate Professor, Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and Centre for Demographic and Aging Research (CEDAR) at Umeå University