Japan and Taiwan interdisciplinary exchanges established extremely close relationships through the great efforts of pioneering researchers and, as a result, many researchers and students frequently traveled between both countries, promoting their research in both academic communities. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to this in-person interaction and face-to-face communication over the last few years. However, as we see the pandemic heading towards its end, the re-acceleration of this exchange is a priority issue. This Taiwan Interdisciplinary Nano/Bio symposium will be held to accelerate Japan and Taiwan interdisciplinary exchange to increase exchange activities to a level that surpasses the pre-pandemic numbers, with a focus on interdisciplinary research involving nanotechnology and biotechnology. We are inviting researchers and students who have achievements related to these research field that are starting new collaborations in both countries to attend and discuss future possibilities and design new trials, especially in the Kansai area. NAIST is organizing the symposium based on experiences of previous joint research and collaborations with Taiwanese universities, and hopes to expand our human networks to neighboring universities in both countries.

9 Jan. 12:30-
■　Opening remarks, Special guest remarks
Tsuyoshi Kawai (NAIST), Yuan-Pern Lee (NYCU), Chung-Yu Wu (NYCU)
■　Part 1: Research and education exchange of between Japan and Taiwan 　　Jun Ohta (NAIST), Teruki Sugiyama (NYCU), Chun-Yen Liu (NCKU), Hirokazu Kato (NAIST), Shoji Kasahara (NAIST), Tetsuro Mimura (NCKU), Ilhyong Ryu (NYCU), 　　Fu-Jen Kao (NYCU), Yoichiroh Hosokawa (NAIST), will introduce their experiences, know-how, success stories, and case studies about exchanges between Japan and 　　Taiwan.
10 Jan. 9:30-
■　Part 2: Research experiences in both Japan and Taiwan 　　Ken-ichi Yuyama (Osaka Metropolitan Univ.), Ro-Ya Liu (NSRRC), Jun Okamoto (NSRRC), Chia-Hung Tsai (NYCU), Kuang-Chih Tso (NYCU), 　　Hozumi Takahashi (Osaka Univ.), Po-Wei Yi (NAIST), will introduce their research promotion activities in both countries, their experiences, and case studies.
■　Part 3: Future vision from broad perspectives 　　Kazuhiro Shiozaki (NAIST), Tsuyoshi Kawai (NAIST), Yoshito Tobe (NYCU), Hisaji Maki (NAIST), Yu-Han Tsou (Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in 　　Japan), Hiroshi Masuhara (NYCU) will discuss their visions of the future of exchange from various perspectives with lectures regarding Japan and Taiwan exchange 　　relationships, NAIST international exchange activities, successful examples of international exchange with other countries, etc.
■　Closing remarks

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