{"id":4295,"date":"2026-03-05T21:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2026-03-05T21:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:40:17","slug":"jaat-held-jsps-nrct-jaat-annual-symposium-2026-sustainable-technology-and-material-management-for-circular-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/2026\/03\/05\/4295\/","title":{"rendered":"JAAT held \u201cJSPS-NRCT-JAAT Annual Symposium 2026 (Sustainable Technology and Material Management for Circular Economy)\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">By the cooperation of JSPS, JSPS Alumni Association Thailand (JAAT), and National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) in partnership with COI-Next Kanazawa University, we successfully held the annual symposium on March 4th, 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The theme of the symposium was \u201cSustainable Technology and Material Management for Circular Economy.\u201d 6 speakers from Japan and Thailand gave presentations and had insightful discussions with participants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">During this symposium, Director Dr. OTANI Yoshio from JSPS Bangkok Office gave a welcome speech and International Program Associate Ms. DING Xiuyu from JSPS Headquarters presented \u201cJSPS and Its International Programs.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\uff1cKeynote Lecture Titles\uff1e<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u25a0 \u201cToward the Development of a Low-Environmental-Impact Circular Society Based on Marine Biodegradable Biomass Plastics: The Kanazawa University Approach\u201d <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">(Prof. Dr. Yutaka Takeuchi, Kanazawa University, COI-Next program, Japan) <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u25a0 \u201cDevelopment of Integrated Circular Bio-Economy for Biofuel and Bio-Chemicals production\u201d <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">(Prof. Dr. Chiaki Ogino, Kobe University, Japan) <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u25a0 \u201cEmerging Sustainable Technologies for Waste Conversion and Resource Recovery\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">(Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sutha Khaodhiar, Chulalongkorn University, NRCT, Thailand)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4296\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Message-by-Assoc.-Prof.-Dr.-Sukanya-Aimimtham-President-of-JAAT.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4296\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4296\" src=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Message-by-Assoc.-Prof.-Dr.-Sukanya-Aimimtham-President-of-JAAT-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Message-by-Assoc.-Prof.-Dr.-Sukanya-Aimimtham-President-of-JAAT-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Message-by-Assoc.-Prof.-Dr.-Sukanya-Aimimtham-President-of-JAAT-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Message-by-Assoc.-Prof.-Dr.-Sukanya-Aimimtham-President-of-JAAT-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Message-by-Assoc.-Prof.-Dr.-Sukanya-Aimimtham-President-of-JAAT.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Message by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sukanya Aimimtham, President of JAAT<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4299\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Welcome-speech-from-Director-Dr.-OTANI-Yoshio.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4299\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4299\" src=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Welcome-speech-from-Director-Dr.-OTANI-Yoshio-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Welcome-speech-from-Director-Dr.-OTANI-Yoshio-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Welcome-speech-from-Director-Dr.-OTANI-Yoshio-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Welcome-speech-from-Director-Dr.-OTANI-Yoshio-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Welcome-speech-from-Director-Dr.-OTANI-Yoshio.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome speech from Director Dr. OTANI Yoshio<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4298\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lecture-from-Prof.-Dr.-Yutaka-Takeuchi-Kanazawa-University-COI-Next-program.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4298\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4298\" src=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lecture-from-Prof.-Dr.-Yutaka-Takeuchi-Kanazawa-University-COI-Next-program-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lecture-from-Prof.-Dr.-Yutaka-Takeuchi-Kanazawa-University-COI-Next-program-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lecture-from-Prof.-Dr.-Yutaka-Takeuchi-Kanazawa-University-COI-Next-program-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lecture-from-Prof.-Dr.-Yutaka-Takeuchi-Kanazawa-University-COI-Next-program-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lecture-from-Prof.-Dr.-Yutaka-Takeuchi-Kanazawa-University-COI-Next-program-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lecture-from-Prof.-Dr.-Yutaka-Takeuchi-Kanazawa-University-COI-Next-program-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lecture-from-Prof.-Dr.-Yutaka-Takeuchi-Kanazawa-University-COI-Next-program.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lecture from Prof. Dr. Yutaka Takeuchi, Kanazawa University<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4300\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lecture-from-Prof.-Dr.-Chiaki-Ogino-Kobe-University.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4300\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4300\" src=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lecture-from-Prof.-Dr.-Chiaki-Ogino-Kobe-University-300x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lecture-from-Prof.-Dr.-Chiaki-Ogino-Kobe-University-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lecture-from-Prof.-Dr.-Chiaki-Ogino-Kobe-University.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lecture from Prof. Dr. Chiaki Ogino, Kobe University<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4297\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Organizers.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4297\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4297\" src=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Organizers-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Organizers-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Organizers-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Organizers-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Organizers.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organizers<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the cooperation of JSPS, JSPS Alumni Association Thailand (JAAT), and National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) in partnership with COI-Next Kanazawa University, we successfully held the annual symposium on March 4th, 2026. The theme of the symposium was \u201cSustainable Technology and Material Management for Circular Economy.\u201d 6 speakers from Japan and Thailand gave presentations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jsps-th.org\/jsps_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}