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Textile Summit

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​  Textile Summit had been held at University of Leeds (2014), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2016) and North Carolina State University (2017). In 2018, Shinshu University will host the Textile Summit.

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​  Textile summit is the regular meeting and technical conference for all seven universities under the memorandum of understanding to exchange both each university's research and teaching, and to make new networking for all attendees. 

Committees

Co-Chair: ​ 

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Chair: ​ 

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Prof. Makoto Shimosaka, Dean of Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University 

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Prof. Hiroshi Urakawa, Faculty of Fiber Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology

Prof. Shinichiro Suye, Frontier Fiber Technology and Science, University of Fukui 

Executive Organizing Committee (Shinshu Univ.): ​ 

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Prof. Kimio Hirabayashi, Prof. Shunichi Kobayashi, Prof. Shigeru Inui, Assoc. Prof. Kaoru Wakatsuki

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Local Organizing Committee (Shinshu Univ.): ​ 

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Prof. Musubu Ichikawa, Assoc. Prof. Hiroyuki Kanai, Prof. Limin Bao, Asst. Prof. Kyoungok Kim, Asst. Prof. Masaki Kakiage, Assoc. Prof. Ick Soo Kim, Asst. Prof. Chunhong Zhu, Asst. Prof. Kenjiro Yazawa, Assoc. Prof. Michael Honywood, Prof. Mikihiko Miura, Prof. Masuhiro Tsukada

Memorandum of Understanding

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  The first agreement MOU (memorandum of understanding) has started since July 2010 with four universities; North Carolina State University (College of Textiles, USA), University of Manchester (School of Materials, UK), Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Institute of Textiles and Clothing, China) and Shinshu University (Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Japan).

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  Objective of the first agreement was to combining efforts to stimulate scientific cooperation and strengthen teaching, research and extension/outreach to promote the improved methods in the area of textiles, and to broaden the international experience of members /staff of four institutions.

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  On June 2017, the agreement had expanded from original four to seven universities additing three universities; The University of Leeds (School of Design, UK), University of Fukui (Faculty of Engineering, Japan) and Kyoto Institute of Technology (Graduate School of Science and Technology, Japan) to promote more multi-university international collaboration.

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Areas of cooperation involve:

  • Collaboration in research and training on all areas related to textiles.

  • Exchange of research and/or teaching faculty and staff.

  • Training of researchers, extension specialists, teaching faculty, staff, graduate students and student interns.

  • Organisation of seminars and/or technical conferences.

  • Production acquisition and distribution of appropriate documents and publications.

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