The 21st Century COE Programs

Fiscal Year 2004 Adoption of "21st Century COE Program"

The screening results of "The 21st Century COE Program" by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology were officially announced on July 21st. Of the 320 programs submitted by Universities, the following 2 programs were adopted from Hokkaido University.

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Field Name Charge
Innovative Academic Fields Topological Science and Technology Graduate School of Engineering
Dr. TANDA, Satoshi
Innovative Academic Fields Marine Bio-Manipulation Frontier for
Food Production
Graduate School of Fisheries Science
Dr. YAMAUCHI, Kohei

Fiscal Year 2003 Adoption of "21st Century COE Program"

The screening results of "The 21st Century COE Program" by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology were officially announced on July 17th. Of the 611 programs submitted by National and Private Universities, the following 6 programs were adopted from Hokkaido University.

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Field Name Charge
Medical Sciences Program of Excellence for
Zoonosis Control
Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine
Dr. TAKASHIMA, Ikuo
Mathematics, Physics, Earth science Mathematics of Nonlinear Structures via Singularities Graduate School of Science
Dr. OZAWA, Tohru
Mechanical, Civil, Construction, and Others engineering Sustainable Metabolic Systems of Water and Waste for
Area-Based Society
Graduate School of Engineering
Dr. WATANABE, Yoshimasa
Social Sciences The Law and Policy of Intellectual Property:
Building a New Global Framework
Graduate School of Law
Dr. TAMURA, Yoshiyuki
Interdisciplinary, Combined Fields, New Disciplines Neo-Science of Natural History-Origin and
Evolution of Natural Diversity
Graduate School of Science
Dr. OKADA, Hisatake
Interdisciplinary, Combined Fields, New Disciplines Making a Discipline of Slavic-Eurasian Studies:
Meso-areas and Globalization
Slavic Research Center
Dr. IEDA, Osamu

Fiscal Year 2002 Adoption of "21st Century COE Program"

The screening results of "The 21st Century COE Program" by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology were officially announced on October 2nd. Of the 464 programs submitted by National and Private Universities, the following 4 programs were adopted from Hokkaido University.

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Field Name Charge
Bioscience Center of Excellence for Advanced Life Science on the Base of Bioscience and Nanotechnology Graduate School of Science
Dr. OSADA, Yoshihito
Information Sciences, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Meme-Media Technology Approach to the R&D of Next-Generation Information Technologies Graduate School of Engineering
Dr. TANAKA, Yuzuru
Humanities Center for the Study of Cultural and Ecological Foundations of Mind Graduate School of Letters
Dr. YAMAGISHI, Toshio
Interdisciplinary, Combined Fields, New Disciplines Prediction and Avoidance of an abrupt change in the bio-geosphere system Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science
Dr. IKEDA, Motoyoshi