Irago Conference 2019 is held at UEC campus

The Irago Conference 2019 was held on 29 October 2019 at the UEC Tokyo campus. The conference was organized by University of Electro-Communications, Toyohashi University of Technology, and Tokai University. This was 9th in this series of conferences providing a platform for networking between scientists, graduate students, and policy makers to interact and share ideas to find solutions for some the major issues of the 21st century.

This core theme of this year's conference was "Insights into Sustainable Development Goals" and the proceedings included 5 invited speakers and more than 90 poster presentations. More than 150 participants attended the conference including the invited speakers from Spain, Italy, and Japan.

In addition to the scientists and graduate students, high students from high schools throughout Japan also participated in the conference, presenting posters and actively asking questions during the sessions.

The conference was organized in partnership STAM journal and Nitto Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., and the evening session included speeches by guests including the teachers of the high schools．