All the operators of MICS2024
Three collaborative project teams awarded activity grants from the Ulaanbaatar Business Innovation Authority (BIA)
Event Summary
Conference name: Mongolia open Innovation and Co-creation for SDGs: MICS-2024 Interim Event
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 14:00-17:45 (Mongolian time)
Languages: Japanese and Mongolian
Organized by: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Mongolia Office
Special Co-sponsor: Department of Business and Innovation, City of Ulaanbaatar
Co-organized by Mongolia-Japan Human Resources Development Center
Supported by: Ministry of Education of Mongolia, Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Communications of Mongolia, Ministry of National Ethnic, Labor and Social Security of Mongolia, Embassy of Mongolia in Japan, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)
Executive Committee: Japan alumni association for international students returning to Japan (JUGAMO)
Venue: Ulaanbaatar Chuulga, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (event site)
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Registration link (in-person only, free of charge): https://forms.gle/yvfYe4LRwpHs5ifD8
Program (tentative)
13:30 – 14:00 Registration
14:00 – 14:05 Organizer’s Remarks (JICA)
14:05 – 14:10 Greetings from Special Sponsor (BIA)
14:10 – 14:25 Introduction to MICS2024 Initiatives (JUGAMO)
14:25 – 15:20 Pitches by collaborative project teams (10 teams)
15:20 – 15:35 Break
15:35 – 15:55 Pitches by Social Innovator Hub (SIH) participants
15:55 – 16:55 Panel Discussion “Initiatives for Cooperation between Japanese and Mongolian Parties” (JICA, Exponential Zaisan Partners , BIA, JUGAMO)
16:55 – 17:15 Presentation of 2 projects supported by JICA (+ sponsors)
17:15 – 17:45 Networking
Contents
On November 20, 2024, the interim event of “Mongolia Open Innovation and Co-Creation for SDGs (MICS) 2024” will be held in Ulaanbaatar. MICS is a program that supports a wide range of stakeholders in industry, government, academia, and finance from Japan and Mongolia to bring together technologies, ideas, and funds to co-create innovative solutions and work together in a collaborative manner to solve social issues and achieve the SDGs, and is being implemented from 2023.
Through the MICS2024 kick-off event held on June 11, booth exhibitors, online participants, and 210 participants in attendance discussed co-creation of innovative solutions and collaboration, and 43 collaborative project proposals were submitted. As a result of the document screening (first screening), 15 collaborative projects were selected.
The 15 selected collaborative project teams made a pitch in front of about 40 Mongolian and 100 Japanese participants at MICS2024 in Tokyo held on August 5 at JICA headquarters (Ichigaya) to call for participation and cooperation in collaborative projects from Japan. The event was attended by about 40 Mongolian participants and about 100 Japanese participants.
On August 19, 15 collaborative project teams made pitches in front of about 500 participants (about 100 from Japan and 400 from Mongolia) at the “Japan-Mongolia International Business Forum 2024” held in Ulaanbaatar. As a result of the final screening, 10 collaborative projects were selected and three of them were awarded activity grants by the Science, Industry and Innovation Department of Ulaanbaatar City. JICA will continue to support the 10 selected collaborative projects through mentoring, partial subsidies for travel expenses between Japan and Mongolia, etc.
At this interim event, 10 collaborative projects will make pitches on the progress of their activities, a panel discussion will be held on the theme of efforts for collaboration between Japanese and Mongolian stakeholders, and collaborative projects for which JICA (and sponsoring companies) will provide partial support for implementation costs will be announced. In addition, researchers from the National University of Mongolia and the University of Science and Technology, who participated in JICA’s Social Innovator Hub (SIH) at Tohoku University, will make pitches. There will be time for networking with the 10 collaborative projects and SIH participants at the venue, so please join us.
If you are interested in participating or cooperating in any of the 10 collaborative projects and ideas of SIH participants, please feel free to contact us at
For inquiries regarding this matter, please contact
Japan alumni association of foreign students returning to Japan (JUGAMO) mics.jica.2024@gmail.com
Overview of the 10 selected collaborative projects (★ denotes three projects for which the Ulaanbaatar Business Innovation Bureau will provide partial support for implementation costs.)
*Project name links are to presentation materials.
The venue for the MICS2024 kick-off event
Pitch by the “Production and Sales of Pet Supplies,” a collaborative project at MICS2024 in Tokyo
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