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• 2023

Industry-government-academia collaboration Projects

• Exploring Challenges and Developing Technologies in Space Activities: Collaborative Research with Fujitsu Ltd.
  • In recent years, efforts to predict the effects of solar wind and space environment in advance, and to prepare countermeasures on Earth and within the Earth's sphere, have been likened to weather forecasting and are referred to as space weather forecasting. Looking ahead to the near future, where human activities expand into space, ISEE utilizes predictive models related to solar surface phenomena such as solar flares and sunspots, as well as solar wind and radiation. These models, along with databases of observations from satellites and ground stations, are combined with the Fujitsu-made supercomputer "Flow," introduced by Nagoya University Information Technology Center in 2020. Fujitsu's large-scale simulation and tuning techniques, along with data analysis technologies, are employed to enhance the predictive models in space weather forecasting simulations and to accelerate the simulations. Furthermore, by jointly conducting preliminary studies towards the institutionalization of space weather forecasters and the development of human resources capable of utilizing space weather forecasts in the future, we aim to address challenges in ensuring the safety of human activities in the Earth's sphere, the Moon, Mars, and interplanetary space.
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• Development and Optimization of Production Systems Using Microorganisms Capable of Material Production from CO2: Chitose Laboratory Corp.

  • Chitose Laboratory Corp., a core corporation of the Chitose Group, has been selected for the "Green Innovation Fund Project / Promotion of Carbon Recycling Directly Using CO2 as a Raw Material through Bio-manufacturing Technology" solicited by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (NEDO). Under this project, Chitose Institute proposed the theme "Establishing a Japan-Originated Global Industry Based on Direct Utilization of CO2 through Photosynthesis" and was subsequently adopted. The challenge of developing and optimizing production systems using microorganisms capable of producing materials from CO2 will be undertaken in collaboration with Nagoya University, a national university corporation under the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System.

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