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Call for Applicants of "Kisoi Motohiro Award 2009"

Now, we are calling for the applicants for "Kisoi Motohiro Award 2009". Please see below for details. We are looking forward to a lot of applications
Deadline for Application: 7 Oct. 2009

What is "Kisoi Motohiro Award"
This award is named in honor of Motohiro Kisoi who was studying intelligent manipulation at Kobe University and died at the age of 23 in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. It honors young researchers 40 years old and under for outstanding contributions to development of rescue system and aims to encourage research activities.
This project starts on 17th January 2005, the 10th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake. The selection committee selects the award winner and the award ceremony is held annually.

The Regulation of "Kisoi Motohiro Award" (J)（PDF）

The Guidlines for Applicants of "Kisoi Motohiro Award" (J)（PDF)

Application Form for Academic Award (J)（PDF） / （WORD）

Application Form for Technical Award (J)（PDF） / （WORD）

Kisoi Motohiro Award is supported by public supscription. We would grateful for your support.

The Prospectus of "Kisoi Motohiro Award" (J)（PDF）

We would like to show our sincerest appreciation for all the donators of this award.

The List of Donators (J) as of Mar 2009

Report of the 4th Kisoi Motohiro Award Presenting Ceremony

We, International Rescue System Institute held the 4th Kisoi Motohiro Award Presenting Ceremony on 15 January 2009 in Kobe.

The winner of the academic achievement is Dr. Atsushi Yamashita who is an associate professor of Shizuoka Univesity, and the winner of the technical achievement is Dr. Tomoharu Doi who is an associate professor of Osaka Prefectural College of Technology.
Dr. Yamashita won the award for his efforts, "To Clear Up the Vision of the Rescue Robots and Systems by the Image Processing ". And Dr. Doi won the award for his efforts, "Application of the Rescue Robotics for the Termite Control Robot".
(PHOTO from the Left; Prof. Takamori, Mr. Kazumi Kisoi, Dr. Yamashita, Dr. Doi and Prof. Matsuno)

Two winners were given the commendation certificate, extra prize \300,000, and memorial trophy given by the members of the selection committee. The trophies were produced by the glass artists, Art Glass Club who have sympathy for this award.
(PHOTO Prof. Matsuno gave the certificate to Dr. Yamashita.)

Both winners received generous applause from attendance with celebration and expectation.

The Program of the 4th Kisoi Motohiro Award Presentation Ceremony (J)

Introduction of the Winners (J)

Introduction of the Trophy Designers (J)

The Winners of the Kisoi Motohiro Award

( ):affiliation at the time
	Academic Achievement	Technical Acheivement
The 4th (2008)	Atsushi YAMASHITA (Shizuoka Univ.)	Tomoharu DOI (Osaka Pref. College of Technology)
The 3rd (2007)	Kazunori OHNO (Tohoku Univ.)	Jun-ichi MEGURO (Waseda Univ.)
The 2nd (2006)	Michinori HATAYAMA (DPRI)	Yasushi HADA (RIKEN)
The 1st (2005)	Hideyuki TSUKAGOSHI (Tokyo Institute of Technology)	Naoji SHIROMA (IRS)

( ):affiliation at the time
Special Award
The 3rd（2007）	Academic Contribution	Satoshi TADOKORO (Tohoku Univ.)