It is our great pleasure to have launched the Core-to-Core Program as the category of Advanced Research Networks, entitled “Establishment of an international research core for new bio-research fields with microbes from tropical areas (World-class research hub of tropical microbial resources and their utilization)”. Many scientists from seven countries of Thai, Vietnam, Laos, Germany, Indonesia, United Kingdom and Japan participate to this five-year program, which is financially supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in Vietnam, National University of Laos, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin and University of Brawijaya. For the approval of this program, we would like to very much appreciate tremendous activities and highly valuable achievements of the members in the ten-year JSPS-NRCT Core University Program entitled “Development of Thermotolerant Microbial Resources and Their Application” and in the five-year JSPS-NRCT Asian Core Program entitled “Capacity Building and Development of Microbial Potential and Fermentation Technology towards New Era”.

The Core-to-Core Program is designed to create top world-class research centers that partner over the long term with other core research institutions around the world in advancing research in leading-edge fields, on issues of high international priority. Thus, we should challenge the new bio-research fields with microbes from tropical areas. This new Core Program is expected to contribute not only to basic and applied researches but also to education to foster our successors. In this program, we have planned to have Joint Seminar, Satellite Seminar, Young Scientist Seminar and Workshop in addition to scientist exchanges for collaborative researches.

To achieve this goal, we expect tight and fruitful collaborations among seven countries and strong supports from JSPS, NRCT, MOST in Vietnam, National University of Laos, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin and University of Brawijaya.

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