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The new part would come with aerospace, quantum, drones and robots, neuroscience, and maritime commentary and exploration applied sciences
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By Yang Mien-chieh and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with employees author
A brand new part of the partnership with Sweden in superior applied sciences is to broaden into 10 main strategic areas, together with quantum expertise, neuroscience and ocean exploration applied sciences, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Deputy Minister Chen Bing-yu (陳炳宇) mentioned on Thursday.
Chen made the remarks at a seminar on collaboration between the NSTC and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) in Yilan County, which continued by way of yesterday.
The National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, entrusted by the council to host the seminar, mentioned the NSTC and the SSF since 2020 have been engaged on a flagship bilateral collaboration mission spanning varied fields, together with semiconductor manufacturing, quantum expertise improvement, 6G community improvement, synthetic intelligence, sustainable and renewable vitality, and superior supplies science.
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The seminars additionally included classes the place doctoral college students and younger lecturers might mingle and focus on their findings, in addition to themed discussions on industry-academic collaboration to have Taiwan assume a extra important function in worldwide science and analysis networks, the college mentioned.
Topics of examine from 2024 to final yr included utilizing gallium nitride in excessive electron mobility transistors, the event of anode-free solid-state lithium batteries (AFSSBs), 2D quantum optoelectronic units, vacuum-channel transistor expertise, past 5G antenna applied sciences and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor nanopore sensing applied sciences, the college mentioned.
The analysis on AFSBBs concerned collaboration between the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology’s Sustainable Electrochemical Energy Development Center and a workforce at Sweden’s Uppsala University, leading to 20 high-quality papers on in-situ spectral imaging and theoretical calculations, it mentioned.
Chen mentioned that the NSTC had signed a memorandum of understanding with the SSF in July 2024, which supplies for continued collaboration between the 2 teams by way of 2031.
The new part of collaboration from this yr to 2031 wouldn’t solely proceed to deal with semiconductor manufacturing and synthetic intelligence improvement, however would additionally start branching out into aerospace, quantum, drones and robots, neuroscience, and maritime commentary and exploration applied sciences, he mentioned.
Swedish Representative to Taiwan Helena Reitberger mentioned that Sweden has collaborated with Taiwan throughout many fields and the NSTC-SSF collaboration has been broadly lauded.
To additional bilateral collaboration, the Swedish Trade and Invest Council, Taipei Office is in talks with the Ministry of Education to collectively set up scholarships to foster expertise on each side, Reitberger mentioned.