[Legend] # for page and page title ## for main-heading ### for sub-headings #1 Cover page RESEARCH CENTER FOR ADVANCED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2019 [Logo image: RCAST] #2 [Left] ###Building 1 This building houses a large wooden wind tunnel, where experiments started in 1930. The facility is a crucial part of Japanfs aviation history. In January 2019, the wind tunnel was granted Important Aviation Heritage certification by the Japan Aeronautic Association. [Photo image : The clock tower] The Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology shall aim to contribute to the development of science and technology by expeditiously taking on new challenges arising from the advancement of science and changes in society thereby exploring new areas of advanced science and technology for humankind and society. Article 2, Rules for the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo #2 [Right] MESSAGE ##Creating an inclusive society through whole-hearted science and education [Photo image: Director] Director, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology the University of Tokyo, Ryohei Kanzaki The Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) is a place where people can achieve their full potential without barriers. Founded in 1987, RCAST has accomplished the practical integration of sciences and arts across a wide range of research fields, including information, environment and energy, materials, chemical biomedicine, barrier-free, and social science. It is now a core driving force in achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and creating an inclusive society. RCAST takes pride in its strengths in research and collaboration, and has drawn attention as one of the highest-level centers of its kind. As the first director of RCAST who is to serve for two consecutive terms, my mission is to combine and leverage all the elements of this rich integration to produce the greatest results possible. In my first term, which ended with the 2018 academic year, RCAST launched the UTokyo Research Alliance for Information and Life Sciences, which enables promising early-career researchers to excel; the Co-creation Living Lab, a research hub that has upgraded conventional collaboration between local governments and RCAST; and the multidisciplinary Inclusive Design Lab, which aims to create environments and spaces where people with disabilities, seniors, children, and others can attain their full potential. In science and technology, there is a tendency to seek a single optimal and standardized solution for a problem. However, no individual in society perfectly fits any one particular standard. An inclusive society should offer diverse solutions, and the question is whether or not we can contribute to society by creating such solutions. The key is to be found in sensitivity to the beauty of diversity, cultivated through art and design. Art and design have always formed part of RCAST's barrier-free studies, and we have a range of experts in these fields. Moving forward, through international collaboration we will re-examine science and technology with art and design experts to generate ideas for world-class inclusive environments, and put these ideas into practice in society. #3@ABOUT RCAST ###Building 3 South The newest building at RCAST was designed with an eye to continuity with other buildings on the campus. In addition to the Academic-Industrial Joint Laboratory for Renewable Energy, it houses environment and energy labs. The ENEOS hall on the first floor seats 170. ##INTERDISCIPLINARY, INCLUSIVE APPROACH ###Thirty Years of Interdisciplinary Research and a 15-year Focus on Inclusivity Resolutions to increasingly complex social issues require fresh perspectives. Having the foresight to pursue fields where there is no existing research is part of RCASTfs DNA. Since the center was founded over 30 years ago, science and engineering have co-existed with humanities and social sciences, which deal with ethics, thought, and social systems. In barrier-free studies established more than 15 years ago, research into barrier-free solutions leverages technology to overcome human and social barriers. ##INTERACTION ###Field-specific Laboratories A field-specific laboratory structure enhances researchersf originality and generates synergy. This structure aims to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration through unanticipated interactions among researchers from different disciplines, while enhancing the creativity of individual researchers. Repeated interactions with researchers from different fields contribute to fruitful discussions in interdisciplinary projects. This synergy is generated by RCASTfs hallmark interdisciplinary research. ##UNIQUE LINE-UP ###World-renowned Researchers, Artists?and a Bear At RCAST, we are proud to be joined by top researchers from around the world. We also have researchers with disabilities, artists and athletes. Coming into contact with such a diverse range of viewpoints prompts us to question things taken for granted in our own narrow world. In June 2018, Kumamon, the popular bear mascot of Kumamoto Prefecture joined RCASTfs research team. Who will be next? ##EDUCATION ###The sole UTokyo-affiliated institution offering graduate-level education to outside professionals Corporate researchers and specialist personnel increasingly require doctoral degrees. Universities not only enable in-depth study of a chosen field, but also develop a systematic understanding and broad overview of science and technology. A cutting-edge environment that brings students into close contact with interdisciplinary research, researchers from diverse backgrounds, and ground-breaking joint research projects is ideal for high-level training of corporate researchers who are tackling increasingly complex social issues. ##HAPPY HOUR ###A mingling of minds Laboratories hosting Happy Hours come up with entertaining drawcards every month, such as games or soup-tasting. Participants make face-to-face connections with people they may know only through e-mails or casual greetings. Such ease of communication spanning research fields and job roles is another point of pride at RCAST. ##OUTREACH ACTIVITIES ###Researchers are good communicators RCAST researchers enthusiastically convey the fun and challenge of their research via Research Tours for junior and senior high school students that feature lab visits and lectures. Researchers also enjoy communicating their latest efforts in unique events at the Komaba Research Campus Open House, which targets a broad public audience. #4@PROJECTS ###Building 14 This building has rich historical value on a par with that of Building 13. At lunchtime, food trucks gather between those two buildings to set up their stalls. Caf? seminars and a monthly Happy Hour are held in the RCAST Caf? on the 1st floor. ##When laboratories with unique strengths pool their creativity, projects are super-charged Each unique laboratory pursues its own large-scale projects and engages in interdisciplinary projects where multiple laboratories collaborate to try out new approaches. ##INCLUSIVITY ###Inclusive Design Lab RCAST has various science and engineering laboratories, and many researchers with disabilities work in these facilities. In collaboration with the UTokyo Disability Services Office, we develop guidelines for accessible environments in science laboratories and support students with disabilities in pursuing higher education and careers in STEM fields. ##SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ###Co-creation Living Lab Knowledge of cutting-edge science and technology combined with regional collaboration networks built up over many years enable us to conceive strategies and tools pinpointing regional issues and design the sustainable regional communities of the future. ##UTOKYO-RAILS ###UTokyo-Research Alliance for Information and Life Sciences An aggregate of young researchers with differing expertise in fields ranging frombiology and medicine to information science, chemistry, and engineering generates collaborative research in an open laboratory, sharing core facilities and cutting-edge technologies. This project aims to tackle fundamental life science problems such as cancer progression and disease control, while exploring industrial applications of scientific discoveries. ##ULTRA-SHORT WORKING HOURS ###IDEA Project The IDEA project has developed an ultra-short working hours scheme for people with disabilities, starting from as little as 15 minutes of work per week. In 2017, SoftBank Corporation was awarded a Good Design Special Award for the Short Working Hours Program supported by the IDEA project. ##GREATER DIVERSITY ###DO-IT Japan This project supports students with disabilities to learn about technology and consider self-advocacy, disability issues, and self-determination, encouraging students to become leaders in society and empower others. It also provides transition support for study and employment. ##SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ###Commitment to SDGs Defines RCAST No other research institute fuses humanities and science in more than 40 fields of research within a small organization of around 700 people, including students. We believe that by leveraging the diversity and uniqueness of RCAST, we can commit to all of the SDGs. ##Labs named for a wide variety of specialized fields are engaged in dynamic research activities ###Materials - Micro Device Engineering - Quantum Information Physics and Engineering - Theoretical Chemistry - High Performance Materials ###Environment and Energy - New Energy - Climate Science Research - Co-creative Community Planning, Design and Management - Energy System - Global Climate Dynamics - Academic-Industrial Joint Laboratory for Renewable Energy ###Information - Artificial Intelligence - Information Devices - Intelligent Cooperative Systems - Mathematical Physics of Emergence Systems - Photon based Advanced Manufacturing Science - Information Somatics - Communication Science - Biological Data Science - Networked Biophotonics and Microfluidics - Machine Intelligence ###Chemical Biomedicine - Bioorganic Chemistry - Genome Science - Metabolic Medicine - Synthetic Biology - InItegrative Nutriomics and Oncology - Clinical Epigenetics ###Barrier Free - Barrier-Free - Assistive Technology - Tojisha-Kenkyu ###Social Science - Intellectual Property Law - Political Administrative System - Religion and Global Security - Policy Research on Science and Technology ###Cooperative Laboratories - Information, Culture and Social Studies - MOT (Management of Technology) - Energy and Environment - Chemical Biotechnology ###Social Cooperation Research Departments - Crowd Management - Renewable Fuels Global Network - Department of Inflammology ###Corporate Sponsored Research Programs - Progressive Logistic Science #5@RCAST at a glance ###Building 13 This building was designed by Hideto Kishida under the supervision of his mentor Yoshikazu Uchida. It was registered as a national tangible cultural property in 2000. While clock towers are usually designed to be symmetrical, the Building 13 tower is asymmetrical. Its four distinct faces symbolize RCAST, aiming to break established traditions with an adventurous spirit. ##A unique system of operation that enables prompt decisions to address new challenges A top-down decision-making system that facilitates prompt action enables RCAST to create new, world-leading research domains. Since its inception, RCAST has maintained a unique system of operations so that researchers can devote themselves to their research activities. As a core unit with primary responsibility for various aspects of operations, the Strategic Management Office deals with matters related to internal organizational streamlining, staffing proposals, and budget allocation and execution. The system reduces the amount of time researchers spend on operational issues and ensures time for their research activities. [Photo image: General Faculty Meeting] [Organization chart] RCAST Board Strategic Management Office Director / Vice Director Faculty Staff / General Manager Strategic Planning Office URA Administration Office Public Relations and Information Office ##Support services field fast-emerging and tricky issues According to RCAST Director Ryohei KANZAKI, gOur researchers and our administrative staff are the twin engines driving RCASTfs continued success.h An operating structure reliant on prompt action needs speedy and flexible support. ##Rigorous evaluation of RCASTfs management strategies gRCAST Boardh external evaluation committee ###RCAST Board Member Noriko OSUMI Vice President,Tohoku University Takashi ONISHI President,Toyohashi University of Technology Hideaki KOIZUMI Honorary Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd., Executive Vice President,The Engineering Academy of Japan Yoshimitsu KOBAYASHI Director of the Board, Chairperson, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings, Corporation Tsuneo KOMATSUZAKI Advisor, SECOM CO., LTD. Yoichi NISHIMURA Managing Director,The Asahi Shimbun Company Akira HIRUMA President and CEO, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. Hiroya MASUDA Advisor, Nomura Research Institute Toshiro MUTOH Honorary Chairman, Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd. As of April 1, 2019 ##Our high external funding ratio is evidence of our research competency expectations and results Over 70 percent of RCAST's operating expenses are covered by external funding. This reflects recognition of RCASTfs far-sighted research and the results that it has produced, and a line-up of researchers capable of securing their own funding. ##External Funding Ratio Proportion of Management Expenses Grants to External Funds [Circle graph] ##RCAST External Funds 71.0% Management Expenses Grants 29.0% (FY2018) UTokyo Management Expenses Grants 48.0% External Funds 52.0% SourceF The University of Tokyo Data Book 2019 ##Financial Statement for FY 2018 Management Expenses Grants 1,277,040 thousand Yen External Funds 3,133,923 thousand Yen Grand Total 4,410,963 thousand Yen [Circle graph] ##External funds ###By content 2,685,210 thousand Yen Contract Research Funds@65.8“ Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 12.9% Joint Research Funds 9.7% Contributions 8.9%Other Grant-in-Aid 2.1% Endowed Research Division 0.3% Funds for Commissioned Projects 0.1% Funds for Joint Projects 0.0% thousand Yen [Circle graph] ###By Source 2,685,210 thousand Yen Ministries and Other Governmental Organizations 67.3% Business Sectors 19.7% Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 12.9% Indirect expenses excluded [FY2018] #6@ ###Building 3 From the entrance, a large staircase sweeps up to the mezzanine floor through an atrium that calls to mind a three-dimensional garden and facilitates connections between laboratories. ##Global and domestic organic connections create new forms of network Globally, RCAST researchers cooperate with world-class partners, sometimes working beyond their disciplines. They seek to advance their research via wide-ranging networks encompassing not only people-to-people exchanges, but also global academic exchange agreements. Domestic initiatives are exemplified by a partnership agreement with Ishikawa Prefecture that has led to a very advanced example of joint industry creation. In collaboration with local governments and communities participating in the Co-creation Living Lab, RCAST pursues forms of co-creation that go beyond conventional industry-academia-government cooperation. ###International collaboration 1 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) (France) 2 Stockholm University (Sweden) 3 Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (UK) 4 University of Glasgow (UK) 5 Arizona Initiative for Renewable Energy, Arizona State University (USA) 6 The University of New South Wales(Australia) 7 Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology (AICT), Seoul National University (Korea) 8 University of Kassel (Germany) 9 The University of Adelaide (Australia) 10 Queensland University of Technology (Australia) 11 The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (MDC), Tel Aviv University (Israel) 12 Council of Scientific & Industrial ResearchiCSIR) (India) 13 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) 14 The Centre for Research in Photonics, The University of Ottawa (Canada) –Chronological order of agreements conclusion (As of August 1, 2019) ###Clare Hall, University of Cambridge ? Asia Partners ? RCAST sends researchers to Clare Hall, where they are granted the title Clare Hall Visiting Fellow. We also send students from the Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies as visiting students. Both carry out collaborative research. ###RCAST Fellow E Ping CHANG (Texas A&M University) E Jacob M. TAYLOR (University of Maryland) E Stefania BANDINI (University of Milan-Bicocca) E David COPE (University of Cambridge) E Shang-Ping XIE (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California) E Joerg WUNDERLICH (Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory) E Tsutomu MIYASAKA (Toin University of Yokohama) E Toshio FUJITA (UTokyo Emeritus Professor) E Teruo KISHI (Science and Technology Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs) E Hideaki KOIZUMI (Honorary Fellow, Hitachi Ltd. / Executive Vice President, The Engineering Academy of Japan) E Setsu ITO (Studio Ito Design) ###RCAST Adviser E Yasunori BABA E Kiyoshi NISHIOKA E Mariko FUJII (As of April 1, 2019) ###Agreement with domestic local governments 1 Ishikawa Prefecture and Ishikawa Sunrise Industries Creation Organization (2012) 2 Obuse Town, Nagano Prefecture (2016) 3 Kumamoto Prefecture and Kumamoto University (2017) 4 Karuizawa Town, Nagano Prefecture and Shinshu University Research Center for Social Systems (2017) 5 Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture (2018) 6 Shiraoi Town, Hokkaido Prefecture (2019) 7 Wakayama Prefecture (2019) 8 Eiheiji Town, Fukui Prefecture (2019) 9 Nanyo City, Yamagata Prefecture (2019) 10 Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture (2019) As of August 1, 2019 ##All projects differ in uniqueness of research and education With external funding, RCAST has created the Project Researcher/Faculty System enabling unique, high-quality human resources to be employed by RCAST on a project basis. This system, originated by RCAST, can make a huge difference in research competency. ###The ratio of Project Academic Staff Professors RCAST 11.1%, UTokyo 6.4% Associate Professors RCAST 40.0%, UTokyo 16.8% Lecturers RCAST 57.1%, UTokyo 33.3% (FY2018) [Circle graph] ###Composition ratio of Academic Staff RCAST Grants Academic Staff 68.2% Project Academic Staff 31.8% UTokyo Grants Academic Staff 85.6% Project Academic Staff 14.4% Source(UTokyo)F The University of Tokyo Data Book 2019 ##About half our graduate school students are adults who study while working The Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (doctoral course), has comprehensive systems to welcome those who wish to continue working during their studies. [Circle graph] ###AIS Students by background Company Employees 47.7% From Other Universities 38.4% From UTokyo 12.8% Others 1.1% –Attribution is as per status at time of application. In the case of foreign students, final education (excluding company employees). (As of February 1, 2019) ###The member of Faculty and Staff Academic Staff 360 Grant Staff 63 Project Staff 43 Researchers* 254 –Researchers: Project Researchers, Visiting Research Fellows Administrative Staff 49 Grant Administrative Staff 26 Project Specialists 23 Students 285 Graduate Students 255 AIS Students 86 Undergraduate Students 30 Co-operative Research Fellows, UTokyo Research Fellows, Joint Research Fellows (As of February 1, 2019) [Circle graph] ###The ratio of Research Staff RCAST Project Stesearchers 82.5% Grant Staff 17.5% ( As of February 1, 2019 ) #7 ###Building 4 Completed in 1999, this was the first building constructed under the new campus plan, which called for older buildings, except those of historical value, to be demolished and rebuilt anew. It was designed by Hiroshi Hara, who also designed buildings for the Institute of Industrial Science on the same campus. ##ACCESS - Yoyogi-Uehara Station (Odakyu Line, Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line) 12 minutesf walk. - Higashi-Kitazawa Station (Odakyu Line) 8 minutesf walk. - Komaba-Todaimae Station West Exit (Keio Inokashira Line) 10 minutesf walk. - Ikenoue Station (Keio Inokashira Line) 10 minutesf walk. Komaba Research Campus Komaba 4-6-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904 [Map] To Kichijoji Shimokitazawa Keio Inokashira Line Ikenoue Komaba-Todaimae Shibuya Tokyu Toyoko Line Odakyu Line Higashi-Kitazawa Yoyogi-Uehara Shinjuku RCAST Komaba Research Campus Tokyo MetroFukutoshin Line Ikebukuro JR Yamanote Line Shinagawa Keikyu Airport Line Haneda Airport Tokyo Nippori JR Narita Express Narita Airport Keisei Skyliner Omotesando Kasumigaseki Otemachi Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line [Campus map] Komaba Research Campus To Higashi-Kitazawa Sta. Main Gate To Yoyogi-Uehara Sta. To Shibuya West Gate To Ikenoue Sta. East Gate To Komaba-Todaimae Sta. 1 [red] F E D C B 13 [red] 14 [red] Ground 15 An As 56 3 [red] 3-S [red] 4 [red] KOL CCR Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology [items in red] [Image: Building 13] [Image:Building 3] [Image:Building 4] [Image:Building 1] [Image:Building 3 South] [Image:Building 14] [Logo image :Tokyo Univ.][Logo image: RCAST][QR code] https://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp Published in September 2019 Published by Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo copyright 2019 RCAST, the University of Tokyo ## Financial support for research challenges Your donations are invaluable in helping us to extend creative research activities and accelerate our efforts to solve societyfs problems. [TEXT BY Public Relation and Information office, RCAST]