A kickoff meeting for REEMOS (Research Platform of Equitable and Efficient Mobility for Societal Challenges) took place in Kashiwa-no-ha City in Japan during May 18 and May 29. REEMOS has been established collaboratively by a group of researchers from Department of Urban Studies at Malmö (MAU) and Graduate Program in Sustainability Science at The University of Tokyo (UOT) in Japan in order to foster research and educational activities about urban-rural mobility. The platform is financed bilaterally by Stiftelsen för internationalisering av högre utbildning och forskning (STINT) and Japanese Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS) for coming 3 fiscal-years. See more details about REEMOS.
REEMOS aims at exploring a potential role of mobility-equity and mobility-efficiency to help solving societal challenges that the Sweden and Japan experience both in rural and urban areas. REEMOS also aims at learning and exchanging successful experiences of mobility-efficiency in Japan and mobility-equity in Sweden to produce insights into how to make mobility helpful to solve social challenges. REEMOS has three specific focus areas: Transit Oriented Development (TOD), Sharing Mobility, and Urban Livability.
I am responsible for managing research and educational activities that will take place in Sweden for the platform. I am looking forward to working on actual research and educational activities!