For Doctorate Students in any Fields

HIRAKU 3MT COMPETITION 2018

10:30 Higashi Hiroshima Art & Culture Hall Date SAT Venue NO-FEE 2018/ 9/15 ~17:00 “Kurara”

HIRAKU 3MT Competition is exciting opportunity for Ph.D. students to effectively explain their research in limited three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.

[ Section ] Japanese Section / English Section *Approximately 15 presenters per each section. (You can apply to both sections. We might conduct pre-screening process in case we receive excessive number of applicants.) DUE Doctorate Students in any fields at , , Tokushima University, , Okayama University, Kagawa University, Gifu University, Kochi University, , , Naruto University of Education, National Institute of Genetics, [ Eligibility ] Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Kochi University of Technology, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima International University and Ritsumeikan University Guideline Guideline (*Presenters will get their commuting expenses reimbursed where applicable.)

[ Application ] Here for details - http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hiraku/en/event/competition_2018 Fri NOON

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10:30 Higashi Hiroshima Art & Culture Hall Date SAT Venue 2018/ 9/15 ~17:00 “Kurara” NO-FEE Show your research vision and superiorities to the non-specialist audience.

Opening Remarks What’s Create your Future! What’s happening in the research frontline? 3MT Competition?

Create your Future in Japanese Three Minutes! Section Lunch Break “Create your Future with One piece of Paper! Poster Session”

Event High school students, future-researchers-to-be,

Concurrent will make poster presentations (Japanese/English). Keynote Speech 3MT was developed by The University of Queensland and now held in over 600 universities across 65 countries. Create your Future in English Three Minutes! Section

“Create your Future with One piece of Paper!

Event Poster Session” Historical HIRAKU 3MT Competition Concurrent HIRAKU 3MT Competition 2017 Workshop about "Speech" http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hiraku/en/event_fy2017/competition_2017/report/ HIRAKU 3MT Competition 2016 Award Ceremony http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hiraku/en/event_fy2016/competition_2016_en/report/

Closing Remarks HIRAKU 3MT Competition 2015 http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hiraku/en/event_fy2015/competition_2015/report/

Winner (Judge’s choice) Single Recipient (either from Japanese or English Section) We will be sending the Global Challenge Award Global Challenge Award recipient to the 2019 Asia-Pacific 3MT Finals (3MT®) Runner-up Japanese English

Awards Sponsor Awards (Otsuka Award, Kyowa Hakko Bio Award, Springer Nature Award, Single Recipient Chugai Technos Award, TODA KOGYO Award, IBM Award, JSW Award, Mazda Award) People's Choice will be determined by audience, including public visitors and People’s Choice Winner Japanese English high school students.

Mid-June June 29 July 31 August 10 September 15 Schedule Application Presenters to be Finalized Training of Presentation & Pre-Training HIRAKU 3MT Application Description* Deadline Pre-screening maybe run depending on universities

*Schedule is subject to change. Please check the official site: http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/hiraku/en/event/competition_2018/

What's "Home for Innovative Researchers and Academic Knowledge Users (HIRAKU)"? The HIRAKU program is operated by Hiroshima University as the Lead Partner Organization, Yamaguchi University and Tokushima University as Partner Organizations. It nurtures young researchers with cross-disciplinary challenges, which will eventually enhance their will and passion to change society. The program forms the industry-academia- government consortium, engaging national, prefectural, municipal, and private universities mainly in the Chugoku and Shikoku regions, as well as a large number of institutions/corporations in public and private sectors, aiming to increase opportunities to leverage exceptional competencies of young researchers that lead future generation.