2020 UK‑Japan Young Scientists Workshops
We are delighted to announce our 2020 UK‑Japan Young Scientists workshops at Cambridge University, UK and Tohoku University, Japan.
The 2020 UK-Japan Young Scientists Workshops that were due to be hosted at Cambridge and Tohoku Universities were cancelled due to COVID-19.
Through these workshops, we enable British and Japanese students to discover, by living and working together with cutting edge scientists and engineers, a new vision of the world they are entering, of the challenges and opportunities science and engineering are opening to them, and of their own futures as global citizens. We have run 25 of these workshops since 2001 and they have had immense impact on the over 1300 students involved so far.
We are keen to include as many able students from disadvantaged backgrounds as our limited resources allow, and so please send us details of any such student you nominate whose financial circumstances would prevent their attending without assistance for us to consider. The cost per student is already heavily subsidised to make it more accessible.
Cambridge Workshop
19th - 25th July 2020, University of Cambridge
The 2020 workshops have been postponed and are now taking place in an online format this July
[PDF] 2020 Cambridge Information
We have run UK-Japan Young Scientists workshops with Cambridge scientists and engineers each year since 2010. Once again we will be living in Murray Edwards College and the Kaetsu Centre (on the Murray Edwards campus), with projects taking place across the academic departments of the university.
Students must be aged 16 or over at the time of the workshop. They should be chosen by your school as being those who would gain most from the experience, both in terms of their academic ability and in their interest in the international dimension.
We ask for a contribution of £750 per student to cover everything in Cambridge including accommodation and meals in Murray Edwards and the final Workshop Dinner in Christ’s College (but not snack lunches which are taken with the research groups; college breakfasts and dinners are very substantial). We offer the teacher place free of charge provided the student places are fully paid. If not we ask for a contribution from the school. We will ask for a deposit of £70 per student when schools initially sign up to take part.
Tohoku Workshop
Depart from Heathrow 31st July return 10th August 2020, Tohoku University
The 2020 workshops have been postponed and are now taking place in an online format this July
[PDF] 2020 Tohoku Information
Tohoku is one of Japan’s National Seven Universities. It is considered one of the most prestigious universities in the country, and one of the top fifty universities in the world. Tohoku was also the region badly affected by the tsunami in 2011. We have learned much from students from that area in previous workshops.
At the time of the Workshop, students must be entering Year 13 and should be chosen by your school as being those who would gain most from the experience, both in terms of their academic ability and in their interest in the international dimension.
The cost will be £2500 per student to (to cover flights and everything in Japan apart from some personal expenses). We offer the teacher place free of charge provided the student places are fully paid. This makes a package for four students and a teacher for £10,000. We will ask for a deposit of £250 per student when schools initially sign up to take part.