Strategic Professional Development Program for Young Researchers
Top Runner Development Program Engaging Universities,
National Labs, and Companies
Strategic Professional Development Program for Young Researchers
Top Runner Development Program Engaging Universities,
National Labs, and Companies
2025/09/19
The “TRiSTAR” program, the Top Runner Development Program Engaging Universities, National Labs, and Companies, is being implemented as part of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s “Strategic Professional Development Program for Young Researchers.” The program is run by a consortium of 25 universities, national research institutes, and companies, including the University of Tsukuba, which serves as the representative institution. As part of the consortium’s cross-disciplinary efforts across various fields and industries, the symposium will be held on the theme of “Space Design.”
Space is not only a creative space that serves as a source of new innovation through “comprehensive knowledge” that combines specialized knowledge and experiential knowledge from various fields and the application of technological innovation to space, but it is also a place of “space entertainment” where people can enjoy a variety of experiences that cannot be experienced on Earth, such as sports and art in zero or low gravity. This symposium aims to create a “sora’rium” that designs space through the crossover of various fields and industries, not only regarding the medicine, food, and residence that will support comfortable space activities in future society, but also the new potential possibilities of space, such as how to learn from and enjoy space.
At the symposium, we will hear lectures from various fields on the potential of space for medicine, food, residence, learning, and entertainment, which will be opened up through interdisciplinary knowledge and technological innovation. Based on these lectures, we will hold a general discussion on the possibilities of space.
We would like to invite a wide range of participants to contribute to the session, including the following topics:
◆ Medicine: Space medicine, health monitoring, sleep management, psychological support, space life science, etc.
◆ Food: Space agriculture, microbial utilization, cultivation environment, remote sensing, etc.
◆ Residence: Lunar surface construction, dust/insulation/temperature control, experiment automation, power devices, legal framework, etc.
◆ Learning: VR/AI learning support, space-philosophy/psychology, DE&I, etc.
◆ Entertainment: Zero gravity/low gravity sports/e-sports, space art/recreation, etc.
10:00-12:00
(Medicine) Space medicine, health monitoring, sleep management, psychological support, space life science, etc.
(Food) Space agriculture, microbial utilization, cultivation environment, remote sensing, etc.
13:00-16:30
(Residence) Lunar surface construction, dust/insulation/temperature control, experiment automation, power devices, legal framework, etc.
(Learning) VR/AI learning support, space-philosophy/psychology, DE&I, etc.
(Entertainment) Zero gravity/low gravity sports/e-sports, space art/recreation, etc.
16:30-17:30 Panel Discussion
18:00-20:00 Reception
A reception will be held after the symposium. We hope you will join us.
We look forward to seeing many of you there.
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TRiSTAR: Top Runner Development Program Engaging Universities, National Labs, and Companies
Implemented as the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s “Strategic Professional Development Program for Young Researchers”
Space Field of Organization for Transformation CONNECT, University of Tsukuba
Trade and Investment Queensland (TIQ), Australia