The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has selected the following 12 projects in the areas of environment, carbon neutrality, bioresources, disaster prevention, and infectious diseases for the International Science and Technology Cooperation Program for Global Issues (SATREPS) in FY2024, based on the selection results of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan Agency for Medical and Health Research and Development (AMED). Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) in the areas of environment, carbon neutrality, bioresources, disaster prevention, and infectious diseases. The projects will be implemented after discussions with the partner countries and agreement on the details.
SATREPS is a program supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and implemented by JICA, JST, and AMED in collaboration with the aim of strengthening science and technology diplomacy. The program targets global-scale issues and promotes social implementation of the results of international joint research based on the needs of developing countries. The objectives of this program are to acquire new knowledge and technologies that will lead to an improvement in the level of science and technology, and to solve global-scale issues and create innovations through such knowledge and technologies. In addition, through international joint research under the program, we aim to build a sustainable system of activities that will enable developing countries to improve their capacity for independent research and development and to resolve issues such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As stated in the Development Cooperation Program Guidelines revised in June 2023, JICA emphasizes “co-creation,” in which various actors bring their strengths together under a common goal and work together to create solutions through dialogue and collaboration, in order to solve complex and intertwined development issues. From this perspective, by strengthening solidarity with universities and research institutions, we will not only seek new solutions to development issues, but also seek to maximize development impact by promoting international brain circulation through exchanges and joint research between students and researchers from developing countries and Japan, and by enhancing the scientific and technological capabilities of both sides.
Region Country Name Project Name Japan Side
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator Major Partner Country
Research Institution Environment Republic of Kazakhstan Smart Mining+ for Sustainable and Environmentally Harmonious Mining Development System without Causing Environmental Destruction Hokkaido University
Yohei Kawamura Nazarbayev University, Kyrgyz Republic Satellite data and domain chemical transport model
Development of Air Pollution Evaluation System and Formation of New Center of Excellence for Air Pollution and Indoor Air Pollution Control Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Nobutoshi Nahba, Osh National University, Arab Republic of Egypt Building a Circular Economy Based on the Production of Plastic Alternative Materials Using Agricultural Waste The University of Tokyo
Mitsuo Yamamoto Egypt Japan University of Science and Technology Carbon Neutral Socialist Republic of Vietnam Project for Transformation of Cassava Production System by Building Smart Carbon Farming for Sustainable Starch Supply Chain Hokkaido University
Takuro Shinano Soil and Fertilizer Research Institute Thailand A Study on Data-driven Dynamic Traffic Management in Emerging Metropolis for Climate Change Mitigation The University of Tokyo
Daisuke Fukuda, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Production of chemical products by biorefinery for high value-added production of waste biomass Tokyo Institute of Technology
Toshiyuki Yokoi Chulalongkorn University Biological Resources Mongolia Research for quarantine eradication and establishment of quarantine infrastructure Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine
Noboru Inoue Institute of Veterinary Medicine, National University of Life Sciences, Mongolia Republic of Madagascar Creation of a food production system centered on paddy fields that simultaneously contributes to zero hunger and zero emissions International Research Center for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Yasuhiro Tsujimoto Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Disaster Prevention Republic of Indonesia Development of the Indonesian Earthquake Early Warning and Evacuation System Kyoto University
Inoue, Ko National Research and Innovation Agency Republic of Ghana Development of an integrated sediment and environmental management approach for sustainable conservation, disaster prevention, and livelihood improvement in coastal areas The University of Tokyo
Yoshimitsu Tajima Center for Coastal Zone Management, University of Cape Coast Infectious Diseases Republic of India Establishment of cloud-based genome analysis platform and research and development toward novel cholera treatment Osaka University
Tetsuya Iida National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Infectious Diseases Malaysia Development of an integrated one-health approach for sustainable control of zoonotic malaria Nagasaki University
Osamu Kaneko University of Sabah, Malaysia
The order of the projects in the area is in alphabetical order of the principal investigator’s name.
Please refer to the following PDF document for a summary of the above projects.
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