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Paris, December 2, 2008
Creation of a Franco-Japanese International Joint Unit and two International Associated Laboratories
In Japan, CNRS and its Japanese partners have just signed into existence an International Joint Unit (or UMI), the Japanese Robotics Laboratory (Tokyo University), and two International Associated Laboratories (or LIAs), the Engineering and Science Lyon Tohoku Laboratory (Tohoku University) and the Japanese French Laboratory in Informatics (National Institute of Informatics). These new organizational structures should consolidate scientific collaboration between the two countries in the fields of informatics, robotics and fluid mechanics.
1 - Japanese Robotics Laboratory (UMI JRL) - CNRS/National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
This UMI was created to pursue the active collaboration between CNRS and AIST which started in 2003 with the creation of the « Joint Robotics Laboratory – JRL », which was renewed in 2005. The research objectives of the JRL are to increase the autonomy of robots in general, especially humanoids. The UMI was created in order to make the collaboration permanent and extend it to other fields in robotics, especially the development of information technologies and communications of the future.
2 –Engineering and Science Lyon Tohoku Laboratory (LIA Ely T) – Ecole Centrale de Lyon/INSA de Lyon/ CNRS/ Tohoku University
A close collaboration dating back more than 15 years between two French universities (INSA Lyon and Ecole Centrale de Lyon) and Tohoku University led to the creation of this LIA. Its research fields cover intelligent materials and systems, fluid mechanics and tribology.
Several seminars and workshops showed that a CNRS LIA was the best organizational structure to optimally manage these research networks. The objective was to promote a network between public and industrial partners in each country.
3 - Japanese French Laboratory for Informatics (LIA JFLI) - CNRS-UPMC/ National Institute of Informatics/ University of Tokyo/ Keio University
The idea for a French Japanese LIA in informatics came up in 2004, based on a number of cooperations in the field of networks (Next Generation Internet, mobile networks, etc.) between a team at Keio University (Internet Lab / WIDE) and several French CNRS laboratories(1). The National Institute of Informatics (N2I) contributed greatly the process of creating the LIA. The research topics of JFLI are next generation networks (Internet of the future), computing grids and high performance calculations, computer security, and imaging, multimedia and quantum informatics.
Notes:
1) LIP6 (CNRS/UPMC), LSIIT (CNRS/Université de Strasbourg 1), LIFL (CNRS/Université de Lille 1 and 3), LABRI, (CNRS/Université de Bordeaux 1 and 2/ ENSEIR BORDEAUX), LORIA (Université de Nancy), IRISA (CNRS/Université de Rennes 1/INSA Rennes/ INRIA/ ENS Cachan), IRIT (CNRS/ Université de Toulouse 1 and 3/ INP Toulouse), LSV (CNRS/ ENS Cachan ) and LRI( CNRS/ Université de Paris-Sud).
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