On January 22 nd 2020, one of the IP seminars of FUKUSHIMA IP utilization project was held by Japan Patent Office in Koriyama. This project has started in 2018FY, and in 2019FY the IP seminars were held sequentially in Minami-Soma, Aizu, Shirakawa, and Koriyama.
In the Koriyama IP seminar, a panel discussion on "HAYABUSA2 - the key for success and the power of FUKUSHIMA-" was held, and Senior associate professor HIRATA Naru in UoA worked as the moderator of the discussion.
In this seminar, the winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 Dr. YOSHINO Akira gave a special speech on "The future achieved by lithium-ion batteries".