RIKEN's Educational Partnerships

Japanese Universities

• Tokyo Institute of Technology
• The University of Tokyo (Graduate School of Frontier Science)
• Tokyo Medical and Dental University (Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences)
• Saitama University (Graduate School of Science and Engineering)
• Kobe University (Graduate School of Science/Graduate School of Medicine)
• Yokohama City University (Graduate School of Nano bioscience, Department of Genome System Science)
• University of Tsukuba
• Osaka University (Graduate School of Science/Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences/Graduate School of Medicine)
• Kyoto University (Graduate School of Medicine/Graduate School of Biostudies)

List of RIKEN researchers collaborating in this program

Overseas Universities

China	Nanjing University Dalian University of Technology Hunan University Shanghai Jiao Tong University Huazhong University of Science and Technology East China University of Science and Technology Jilin University Lanzhou University Chinese Academy of Science (IMP, DCP, IHEP) Xiamen University Beijing University of Chinese Medicine University of Science and Technology China Peking Union Medical College Peking University* X'iang Jiaotong University*
Taiwan	National Tsing Hua University National Chiao Tung University National Taiwan University / Academia Sinica Taipei Medical University
Korea	Pohang University of Science and Technology Korea University Seoul National University Kyungpook National University Hanyang University Ewha Womans University GIST(Gwangiu Institute of Science and Technology)
Mongolia	National University of Mongolia
Pakistan	University of Punjab Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
Indonesia	Universitas Padjadjaran Institut Teknologi Bandung Universitas Indonesia
Singapore	Nanyang Technological University
Malaysia	University of Malaya Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Universti Sains Malaysia*
Vietnam	VNU University of Science Vietnam Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Phillipines	University of the Phillipines-Diliman
Australia	University of New South Wales
Russia	Kazan Federal University Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Romania	University of Bucharest
Sweden	Karolinska Institutet
Denmark	University of Copenhagen
UK	University of York The University of Liverpool*
France	Universite de Caen Normandie Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (UCBL) University of Strasbourg Universite Paris-Sud
Germany	University of Tubingen Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald
Switzerland	ETH Zurich
Italy	University of Trento
USA	University of Illinois at Chicago
Canada	McGill University
Brazil	University of Sao Paulo

*Universities which have strategic agreements with RIKEN

The position of International Program Associate (IPA) was created in October 2006. Under the terms of the joint graduate school program, RIKEN provides the IPA with a daily living allowance and covers the IPA’s housing costs for up to a maximum of three years while they are at RIKEN.

Eligibility

A graduate student enrolled in a PhD program at a Japanese or an overseas university which has entered into a joint graduate school partnership program with RIKEN, or is in the process of entering into an agreement.

Duration

1 to 3 years, in principle.

Compensation

• Airfare (1 round-trip ticket)
• Living allowance (5,200 JPY/day)
• Free on-campus housing, or payment of actual amount of rent for off-campus apartment, up to a maximum of 70,000 JPY/month
• Payment of accident insurance premium

Note: The information shown above is the basic compensation. The portion paid by RIKEN may differ depending on the stipulations in the agreement with the partnering university. However, the compensation for each individual student is as shown above.

Procedures

Within Japan

Since recruitment procedures and required documents differ by partnering university, please ask RIKEN’s Research Personnel Affairs Section(RPAS) for instructions.

The basic sequence of procedures for becoming an IPA from within Japan is as follows:

• 1.Check the list of partner Universities for information of the entrance exam at each University and contact RIKEN’s researchers collaborating with that University.
• 2.RIKEN’s researchers willing to accept the candidate contacts RPAS
• 3.Collect necessary application documents
• 4.Internal screening (Done before submitting application documents to the University)
• 5.Pass entrance exam and become an IPA

Overseas

Calls for applications are issued in April and in October each year. Application documents must be submitted following the instructions in the call for applications.

Note: IPAs may select his/her starting date from October to March of the following year, or from April to September.

The basic sequence of procedures for becoming an IPA from outside of Japan is as follows:

• 1.Directly contact RIKEN’s researchers of interest
• 2.RIKEN’s researchers willing to accept the candidate contacts RPAS
• 3.Apply for IPA at biannual Call of application (in April and October)
• 4.Screening
• 5.After gaining internal approval, become an IPA

Contact

Research Personnel Affairs Section
Human Resources Division, RIKEN
Hirosawa 2-1, Wako, Saitama JAPAN 351-0198
FAX: +81-(0)48-463-3687
Email: ipa-info [at] riken.jp