UK-Japan science collaboration

Various sources of funding exist for UK-Japan collaboration. These include for example those managed by the respective Governments, such as the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and the UK Research Councils. In addition, several charities are active such as the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the Sasakawa Foundation. For details, please see our leaflet "Sources of funding for UK- Japan Collaboration".

Finally, the Global Partnership Fund (GPF), the UK Department for Innovation, Universities & Skills (DIUS) ’s programme for international science collaboration, is one of the main sources of funding for the activities of the British Embassy Science and Innovation Section. For details, please see our leaflet "Global Opportunities Fund UK-Japan Collaborations in Science and Innovation".

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Global Partnership Fund

What is GPF?

The Global Partnership Fund (GPF) is the DIUS’ largest programme budget and a key policy delivery tool for the DIUS Science and Innovation Network. Established in May 2003 (formerly Global Opportunities Fund a/o Strategic Programme Fund managed at the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office), GPF aims to support and promote science collaboration through the Science and Innovation Network located at British Embassy and British Consulate General abroad. A variety of projects are organized focusing on long-term sustainable relationships in science and innovation R&D with key partners around the world.

GPF- funded projects in Japan

The Agreement on Cooperation on Science and Technology signed by the UK and Japanese Governments in June 1994 has led to over 200 basic research partnerships between UK Universities and Japanese national institutes across a wide range of fields including advanced materials, structural genomics, climate change and sustainability. To stimulate this work further, in July 2003, Prime Ministers Junichiro Koizumi and Tony Blair signed the "Japan-UK Science & Technology Partnership." Priority fields agreed for the bilateral collaboration are life sciences, nanotechnology and materials, information and communication technologies, energy, and the environment. And more recently, in a joint statement issued in January 2007, British and Japanese Prime Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to increase research collaboration between the two countries in priority areas. The Science & Innovation Section of the British Embassy Tokyo promotes R&D collaboration based on these priorities with GPF funding.

We support the following three project types:

• Seminar
  Top UK scientists provide an overview of the current R&D situation and its prospects in the UK at the British Embassy and at international symposiums.
• Workshop
  Leading experts from Japan and the UK present their research and identify potential collaboration areas between the two countries.
• Mission
  A delegation of experts from the UK visit Japan to learn Japan's latest technological and business trends as well as to explore possible collaboration areas between the two countries.

Information on any of these activities are available at the following pages.

• Activities and events 2009
• Activities and events 2008
• Activities and events 2007