International cooperationCSMC Receives Visitors from Kyoto

31 March 2023

Photo: Jakob Hinze

Ayako Tobita, Eike Großmann, Sebastian Bosch, Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, Mika Yokoyama, Gero Hemker, and Steffen Döll at CSMC.

During her visit to Universität Hamburg, Mika Yokoyama, Vice-President for International Affairs at Kyoto University, met various members of the Centre and took a tour of the Artefact Laboratory.

Professor Yokoyama gained insights into various areas of the university during her visit on 27 March. One point on her agenda was a visit at CSMC in the afternoon. Accompanied by Ayako Tobita from the International Affairs Division of Kyoto University and Gero Hemker from the corresponding division at Universität Hamburg, she met Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, co-spokesperson of the Cluster, as well as the Japanologists Eike Großmann and Steffen Döll. In addition to the CSMC’s research profile, other topics at the meeting were the structural role of Clusters of Excellence in the German research landscape and activities in the field of Equal Opportunity. At the end of the visit, Sebastian Bosch gave the visitors a tour of the artefact laboratory at CSMC.

To establish and deepen cooperation and to utilise synergies among researchers, Universität Hamburg and Kyoto University have maintained a strategic partnership since 2020. Agreements at faculty level and a university-wide cooperation agreement on student exchange reach back to 2017. Moreover, two interdisciplinary symposia were organised in 2017 (Hamburg) and 2018 (Kyoto), and a joint funding programme to initiate and deepen cooperation in research and teaching was established in 2021.