Collaboration between Japan and Sweden
A ceremony marked the conclusion of the Memorandum between the KTH ICT and Sasebo National College of Technology in Japan. The main idea of the agreement is to bring Japanese students graduated in Sasebo (Nagasaki prefecture) with the bachelor degree to KTH ICT in Kista to continue their study towards Master degree in NanoElectronics, Photonics and Applied Physics.
![Prof. M. Inoue, president and prof. Mikael Östling, Dean](/polopoly_fs/1.174799.1600718722!/image/handskak.jpg)
At the ceremony the Sasebo National College of Technology was represented by prof. M. Inoue, president, and prof. Y. Suda Vice President, and KTH ICT was represented by prof Mikael Östling, Dean of KTH ICT assisted by prof Alex Grishin.
Long-term collaboration
The Memorandum is the result of the long-term collaboration between KTH ICT and Japan. One Japanese PhD student (M. Yamazato) and one Japanese Master student (Akira Shibuya) performed their research in collaboration with the research h group Condensed Matters Physics (KMF).
Two Swedish students - Daniel Lundström and Patrik Hedblom - based their Master theses on the results obtained as a joint research between KMF/KTH and Osaka University, and John Österman researched in Toyota Institute of Technology.
Furthermore KTH ICT continuously host senior Japanese scientists coming to Kista for 6-12 months joint research projects: Prof. Y. Suda - who became a vice-president of the Sasebo College – has been here four times, Prof. S.-I. Aoqui – twice, Dr. M. Munakata, as well as Dr. H. Kawasaki recently went back to Japan after 10 months of very productive study of self-cleaning highly catalytic coatings for heat mirror windows.