In the current world of academic society, there is fierce competition on an international scale for acquiring outstanding human resources: in other words, “brain circulation” is accelerating.

Placing importance on industry-academic partnerships, Yokohama National University (YNU) proactively promotes industry-academic collaborative research led by both YNU researchers and corporate researchers.

In the current age, a huge variety of risks faced by advancing technology and developing society continue to become more apparent.

Providing a stable living environment to all international researchers that conduct research at The Institute of Advanced Sciences (IAS), which enables them to start conducting such research smoothly and quickly, is considered an important mission of IAS.