◆An international kickoff symposium was held for the "Research Exchange Hub for Warm-Period Climate Change Research Centered on the International Marine Science Drilling School," led by Kochi University
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The kickoff international symposium for the “Research Exchange Hub for Warm-Period Climate Change Research Centered on the International Marine Science Drilling School,” organized by Kochi University—which was selected for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science’s Research Hub Formation Program—was held from Wednesday, October 22 to Friday, October 24, 2025.
本事業は世界中の海洋コアを保管解析する高知大学海洋コア国際研究所が主導し、日本および欧州４カ国の研究機関と連携、共同研究を推進する「温暖期気候変動研究交流拠点」の設置を目指すもので、キックオフシンポジウムには約80人（オンライン含む）が参加しました。
初日、高知城歴史博物館ホールで開催されたオーラルセッションでは、主催者を代表し受田学長による挨拶があった後、国際海洋科学掘削計画（IODP³）の最新の研究成果などの発表が行われました。２日目は高知大学海洋コア国際研究所に会場を移し、成果発表とコアリポジトリ見学が実施され、最終日は室戸ジオパークでの地質巡検が行われました。
Fifteen researchers from Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Austria, France, Spain, South Korea, and New Zealand attended the event in person. The gathering facilitated international exchange on the causes of climate change—such as global warming—as well as on understanding the actual state of climate change during warm periods in Earth’s history and mapping those change processes, marking a significant first step in the initiative to establish a research hub.
Going forward, as exchanges between young researchers in European countries and their Japanese counterparts become more active, it is expected that the young researchers participating in these exchanges will take the lead in the next phase of international collaborative research and contribute to joint proposals for new deep-sea drilling projects.
