Prof. Dr. Chung-Yuan MOU, Deputy Minister of the National Science Council, Taiwan, visits NIMS

National Science Council is a government organization belonging to  Executive Yuan, the executive branch of Taiwan, and responsible for the promotion of national science & technology development, the support of academic research and the development of science parks, analogous to the former Science and Technology Agency (presently MEXT) of Japan.
He visited NIMS during his trip to Japan, because Prof. MOU is in charge of Asian region　in NSC and at the same time he is affiliated with National Taiwan University as a nanomaterials scientist especially for the biomedical application.
Prof. MOU had a discussion with NIMS Executive　Vice Presidents following NIMS overview presentation.  Status of the collaborations between NIMS and Taiwanese universities and research institutes, which have been increasingly active last several years, was presented and then how to explore the future collaboration and the possible cooperation between NIMS and NSC itself were intensively discussed.
Both sides are very eager to build a cooperative relation and have agreed to consider facilitating and supporting researcher’s exchange, joint workshops and Taiwanese post-docs studying at NIMS for universities and research institutes all over Taiwan.
After the meeting with Executive Vice Presidents, Prof. MOU visited the new WPI-MANA Building at Namiki Site.  He had a tour of laboratories relevant to his expertise, following MANA overview presentation, and gave many questions and comments.