The HeKKSaGOn Presidents Agreed On Four Priority Areas
The partner universities of the German-Japanese “HeKKSaGOn”-Network met for their 7th Presidents’ Conference in Heidelberg on 12 and 13 September 2019. The conference opened the second cycle of the consortium and included a meeting of the presidents in which they agreed on four interdisciplinary priority areas for the second cycle: 1. Transcultural Studies and the Transformation of Cultural Heritage, 2. Data Science, Digitization, and Artificial Intelligence, 3. Health, Well-being, and Safe and Resilient Societies, and 4. Engineering Molecular Systems and Bioimaging. Existing and new working groups are invited to participate in a call, which will be published by the end of 2019.
Parallel to the presidents’ meeting, about 120 scientists met in eight interdisciplinary working groups to work together on global challenges. A new working group on “Renewable Energy” met for the first time this year, focusing on geothermal energy and photovoltaic systems. In the students’ workshop, which was held for the third time within the framework of the HeKKSaGOn presidents’ conference, 22 students from the partner universities discussed the topic “HeKKSaGOn for Future: How Can the German-Japanese University Network Contribute to Sustainable Development?” and presented their results to the presidents and scientists.
The HeKKSaGOn network was founded in 2010 by the University of Göttingen, the University of Heidelberg, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) together with the three Japanese universities: Kyoto University, Osaka University and Tohoku University. The network aims to find solutions for global social challenges and to ensure sustainable collaboration between the two countries.
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Contact:
Dr. Tanja Falkowski
Göttingen International / The International Office
email: tanja.falkowski@zvw.uni-goettingen.de
photo: Universität Heidelberg_Fotograf Philipp Rothe