Individual Development Plan (IDP) - ***Mandatory for Class 2023***

**This event has been canceled.**

Completing an Individual Development Plan annually will help you to

• Recognize your strengths and also identify areas for improvement​
• Realize your potential as both a researcher and a research leader ​
• Improve your ability to work effectively as a student ​
• Achieve future career success either in academia or beyond

OIST NetCafé Online Information Session in June 2023

OIST Café is a casual science information session to introduce the OIST PhD program, Research Internship, and other workshops. What do cutting-edge research and education look like? What are the qualification and criteria to get into Graduate School? What are the career options after the graduation? OIST members such as PhD students and admissions officers will meet you to answer all your questions!

GPSS Introduction seminar @OIST (In person session)

What is GPSS Group?
GPSS Group is Tokyo based and engaged in a wide range of energy businesses including solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and biogas, as well as a variety of other businesses to realize a sustainable society. We consider the gifts of nature such: as water, wind, and heat, which all exist in the local regions as the "local commons." To create a sustainable society together with the local communities, we utilize these potentials that are naturally replenished. 

Big Geographical Data: a digital revolution for transportation studies (Session 2)

This Mini Course will provide participants with a better understanding of tools and techniques used for gathering, understanding and using geographical data.  Although the focus is on human mobility data, principles and practices are relevant to much broader fields. We hope many of you will be able to join and consider potential applications in your own research. Each session is independent, so feel free to attend just one or both!

Big Geographical Data: a digital revolution for transportation studies (Session 1)

This Mini Course will provide participants with a better understanding of tools and techniques used for gathering, understanding and using geographical data.  Although the focus is on human mobility data, principles and practices are relevant to much broader fields. We hope many of you will be able to join and consider potential applications in your own research. Each session is independent, so feel free to attend just one or both!

Graduation Ceremony 2023

The Graduation Ceremony to award degrees to students who have graduated in the period May 2022 to April 2023.

Use of AI Tools in Higher Education

A faculty-Grad School discussion on the use of AI tools in higher education.

OIST x OYW Spring Camp 2023

OIST x OYW Spring Camp 2023: a five-day camp for high school students in Japan to address solutions to environmental issue.

OIST NetCafé (Online Information Session) in February 2023

This session will be done in English only. The program will start off with OIST general introduction, PhD & Research Internship admission process, financial support and student life followed by the panel discussion by 3 OIST PhD students.

OIST Café in Tokyo December 2022

Would you like to know more about our fully funded PhD program and Research Internship as well as opportunities to experience the atmosphere at OIST? Staff and Alumni from OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) will come to Tokyo to answer all your questions about the PhD & Research Internship admission process, support for students as well as student life at OIST.