The MIRAI project is an initiative aiming at connecting and strengthening the relationships between Swedish and Japanese universities through research, education and innovation.

During the first phase of the MIRAI project (2017-2019), together with Prof. Tomonori Kindaichi (Hiroshima University) and Dr. Federico Micolucci (Lund University), we initiated the MARTINIS project. In this project, aiming at combining alternative mitigation technologies in RAS (more information here). We presented the advances of our project at the MIRAI gatherings in both countries in 2018 and 2019.

In 2020 the MIRAI collaboration has entered a new phase, called MIRAI 2.0 (2020-23), aiming to develop the contacts and collaborations even further. The university of Gothenburg was the coordinator from the Swedish side, and I was a current member of the scientific task force for this project. During this phase of the project, I continued my collaboration with Hiroshima university, and I also initiated a new collaboration with Prof. Timothy Ravasi from the Marine Climate Change Unit at OIST, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technologies.

In 2024, the third phase of the MIRAI project started, with now Umeå university as Swedish coordinator. In this new phase, I was part of the inter-university writing team that got awarded a 10 million SEK grant in strategic funding from STINT. What a great start for this successful project!

Stay tuned with the development of the MIRAI project in the ‘news’ section here