10:00-11:30

Registration
Registration venue: Brashörnan (level 3 in the Universum Building), Universum building

Free time slot for Thematic Expert Group (TEG) meetings/ Innovation and Expert Group (IEAG) meetings - organized separately by the TEG/IEAG groups

IEAG 10:00-11;30

Venue: NAT.D.200 Natural Science building 

Sustainability 10:00-11:30

Venue: NAT.C1.123 Natural Science building

Ageing 10:00-11:30

Venue: NAT.A2.340 Natural Science building

11:30-13.00

Lunch

Venue: Restaurant Lingon, Universum building

13:00-14:30

Opening Ceremony

Moderator: Prof. Katrine Riklund
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Umeå University

• Welcome Remarks 
  Prof. Hans Adolfsson, Vice-Chancellor, Umeå University 

• Opening Remarks 

       Prof. Norimi Mizutani, Nagoya University

• Congratulatory Address
  Ebba Busch, Minister for Energy, Business and Industry and Deputy Prime Minister (pre-recorded) 
  Mr. Takashi Kiyoura, Deputy Director-General of Science and Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan (pre-recorded)

• Photo Session

• Keynote Speech
  Kristina Sundin Jonsson
  Head of Adminstration, Municipality of Skellefteå
  Shaping Tomorrow, Together Today!Skellefteå a blueprint for Creating Resilient and Sustainable Societies?

Venue: Aula Nordica, Universum building

14:30-15:15

Coffee Break & Poster session kick-off

15:30-16:45

• Poster Pitch-session

• Presentation of seed funded projects

17:00-19:00

Welcome Reception - For all Participants

09:00-11:30

Parallel Workshops / Presentation Sessions - all topics

09:00-11:15

Leadership Summit – invitation only

Venue: Elite hotell Mimer, Umeå city center, Kungsgatan 75

11:30-13:00

Lunch / Leadership Lunch

12:10-12:50 Campus Tour (optional)

Campus Tour venue: Brashörnan (level 3 in the Universum Building), Universum building

Leadership Lunch venue: Elite hotell Mimer, Umeå city center, Kungsgatan 75

Lunch Venue: Restaurant Lingon, Universum building

13:00-15:00

Parallel Workshops / Presentation Sessions - all topics

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break

Venue: Rotundan, Universum building

15:30-17:00

• Site Visit / Laboratory Tour

        Venue: Brashörnan (level 3 in the Universum Building),

        Universum building

• 15:30 - 17:00 Excursions

• Strategic Management of Knowledge Assets

• MIRAI 2.0 Project Manager Meeting

        Venue: NAT.D.400, Natural Science building

18:00-20:00

Free Evening

19:00-21:30 Casual Dinner for Project Managers - invitation only

09:00-10:15

Co-creation in multicultural teams - Experiences from Swedish and Japanese companies (IEAG)

08:30-10:00

GA (General Assembly) Meeting – Invite Only

Venue: Aula Biologica, Biology building

10:30-12:30

Parallel Transdisciplinary Challenge-Based Workshops

12:30-14:00

Lunch

Venue: Restaurant Lingon, Universum building

13:10-13:50 Campus Tour (optional)

Venue: Brashörnan (level 3 in the Universum Building), Universum building

14:00-16:00

Parallel Transdisciplinary Challenge-Based Workshops

16:00-16:30

Coffee Break

Venue: Rotundan, Universum building

18:30-20:30

Social evening with food and beverages – for all participants. At Rex Town Hall.

09:00-10:00

Closing Workshop (interactive)

Unlocking the Potential of MIRAI 3.0_ Building a Sustainable Partnership

Venue: Rotundan, Universum building

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

Venue: Rotundan, Universum building

10:30-12:00

Closing Ceremony

Kick-off of MIRAI 3.0

Venue, Aula Nordica, Universum building

12:00-13:30

Lunch

Venue: Restaurant Lingon, Universum building

13:30-16:30

Excursions

Venue for Excursions: Brashörnan, Universum building

13:30-16:30

One-to-One Meetings

Satellite event: MIRAI Open Day

This event is a kind of mini-symposium and it shows what MIRAI has achieved through these 7 years and how we plan to move forward in the next phase starting January 2024 through some presentations, discussions and dialogues with participants.

The event is open to the public. Kyushu University, one of the MIRAI universities on the Japanese side, hosts this event.

More detailed program including speakers is coming soon.

Speakers

• Roman Selyanchyn (Kyushu University)
  Facilitating the Carbon-neutral Energy Research and Education at Kyushu University

• Alexander Ryota Keeley (Kyushu University)
  ESG Assessment for Products and Services: Research and Practice

• Patrik Ström (Stockholm School of Economics)
  EU-Japan relations: implications of changing geoeconomics and geopolitics

• Göran Nystrom (Ovako AB)
  Ovako and the road to zero carbon emissions
  etc.

Theme: Creating a Sustainable Tomorrow Together

[Time] 9:00 am – 11:30 am

[Venue] IVA Conference Center, auditorium Wallenbergsalen

(https://ivakonferens.se/) Grev Turegatan 16, 114 46 Stockholm

[Capacity] approximately 160 maximum

[Registration] 

Online registration via the link below. The final date of registration is Sunday, 5 November, 2023.

https://forms.office.com/r/icnVDs3qvc

If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact Kyushu University at: intleurope@jimu.kyushu-u.ac.jp.