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EPSRC UK-Japan Workshop in Industrial Sustainability

Introduction

In January 2011, a team of industrially orientated academics with interests in manufacturing and/or sustainability and a senior officer from EPSRC, visited Japan with the aim to -

• Share experience and expertise in the field of education and research toward industrial sustainability
• Identify current education and research best practices and industrial needs
• Identify opportunities for collaborative projects between UK and Japan.

A three-day program (See itinerary) including national funding bodies, industrial speakers and academics was constructed in collaboration with EPSRC and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

The findings have been presented in a

1. Report on the UK Japan industrial sustainability study and workshop
2. A workshop hosted on 22nd of July in London

Details of which can be found below.

Report

The report is available to download from here. [484k pdf file]

Please e-mail dcm32@cam.ac.uk if you would like to

1. Comment on findings (e.g. agree/disagree/add)
2. Identify any shared interests
3. Describe actions you think would be interesting or useful to take forward.

Comments will be collected until the 3rd of August.

UK Workshop

The workshop aimed to share the findings of the study visit to Japan and identify shared interests and actions to be taken forward. The presentations from the workshop can be found here.
A report on the workshop will be posted here when complete.

To register an interest in the outputs please email dcm32@cam.ac.uk with the subject line "Japan Workshop Outputs".