Grant Award View - GA203504

The project aims at bilateral exchanges of 4 students and 4 researchers between the University of Adelaide, RMIT University, Osaka University, and Kyushu University. These four universities have complementary and critical capabilities to drive next-generation (6G) telecommunications technologies planned to support ever increasing data traffic by 2030. The exchanges will allow us to share latest advances in this common area among the participants via laboratory visits and training. Our students from Australia will be trained in terahertz communications at Osaka University and electro-optic polymers at Kyushu University. Likewise, those Japanese students will be trained in the area of terahertz components at the University of Adelaide and integrated optics at RMIT University. The two-way visits of the academic staff to the participating laboratories will enable mutual understanding of complementary capabilities towards potential collaborations. Importantly, the visiting academic participants are expected to deliver invited seminars to local engineering staff and students. Given the rapidly evolving nature of this field, the project is expected to span two years beginning in 2022. The project will promote our innovation, science, and education and people-to-people links for greater collaborations in next-generation telecommunications for technological sovereignty of Australia and Japan.