CTU Prague Ph.D. students' can apply for 3-6 months internship at NII Tokyo

Hot news

• We expect the 2nd call for the NII Internagional internship program in autumn 2025.The 1st call for the NII International Internship program 2025, deadline April 15th 2025, at 17:00 JST

How to apply, decisions about applications

• The eligible persons are CTU Ph.D. students of informatics in wider sense. This means that their research topic and interest should match with the research topic listed in the NII call. CTU has not been sending master students to NII.
• The person at CTU serving as a contact to NII and also sending the applications is Václav Hlaváč.
• The length of the stay: If it is 90 days or shorter then the visa is not needed. If the stay is longer than three months then visa is necessary. We had a student who stayed for 6 months. The visa issue was managable. Talk to your FEL, FIT, CIIRC supervisor and V. Hlavac about it.
• The NII International Exchange based on MOU Program describes the conditions at NII.
• Funding of CTU students: The NII side pays 5,700 yen/day in sojourn expenses, also accident insurance. The travel expenses should be covered by CTU side, i.e. secured by the supervisor and/or her/his department. CTU students pays his accommodation and living expenses from the NII scholarship. The NII support suffices for a modest life in Tokyo.
• Communication with the Japanese side. The candidate is not supposed to contact a potential host directly. It is part of Japanese culture that a senior person establishes the contact first. If interested, contact V. Hlavac first and he will discuss the internship informally with you. Call me on my mobile phone +420 603 149 689. After this is done, I address the potential Japanese advisor to open the communication channel for you.
• How to apply?
  (1) Find appropriate topic/supervisor at NII side.
  (2) Discuss it with your supervisor at CTU Prague including the possibility of hosting/financing a reciprocal NII student in the future.
  (3) Download the application form and fill it in preliminarily.
  (4) Send it to V. Hlavac by email and simultaneously contact him on his mobile phone for a short interview. Do it immediately, please.
• The selection procedure at CTU Prague side. V. Hlavac will consider the applications in cooperation with CTU Rector's Office. The selected candidates will be informed immediately. V. Hlavac will submit the applications to NII before the deadline. If there are many good candidates, we will submit three applications at most from which NII selects.
• Reciprocity, funding of NII students in Prague. There is a mutual understaning of reciprocity in internships between CTU and NII. Japanese side might want to send their student to CTU. Accepting NII students at CTU side needs supervisors and funding. The CTU applicants for NII scholarhips are requested to ask their supervisors and the head of departments about the readiness to host a NII student and financially support her/him in the future. Such a stay of a NII student will reciprocite a stay of a CTU student at NII. V. Hlavac expects that the student's application is accompanied by the informal confirmation from a student supervisor (an email suffices) that a future NII student will be finacially supported on the level matching the NII financial support. The Dept. of Cybernetics of FEE CTU hosted several NII Ph.D. students in the past following the mentioned reciprocity principle.
• You may want to consult an expert on Tokyo life. Dr. Ondřej Velek, director of CIIRC ČVUT lived in Tokyo for seven years, obtained his Ph.D. degree at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. He offers the NII candidates and informal discussion. If interested to set a date for personal meeting, send him the email to ondrej.velek@cvut.cz.

Vasek Hlavac, April 15, 2025

Past stays and events

• 2025-04-15 No one from CTU Prague expressed interest in NII internship announced in the 1st call of the year 2025.
• 2025-03-03 till 2025-08-22 Jaroslav Moravec, host Prof. A. Sugimoto, Ph.D. student FEE, Department of Cybernetics
• 2025-04-07 till 2025-10-03 Nikos Efthymiadis, host Prof. A. Sugimoto, Ph.D. student FEE, Department of Cybernetics
• 2023-09-20 till 2024-01-19 Adéla Šubrtová, host Prof. A. Sugimoto, Ph.D. student FEE, Department of Cybernetics, formal report, informal report
• 2024-01-31 till 2024-07-27 Jaroslav Pešek, Ph.D. student from FIT,  
• 2023-02 till 2023-05 Tomáš Horych, Masters' student FEE, Department of Computers
• COVID pause.
• 2019 Mr. Yutaka Nahashima, a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU Prague, supervisor Dr. Josef Urban from CIIRC
• 2019-04 till 2019-09 Pavol Mulinka, host Kensuke Fukuda, supervisor ČVUT Lukáš Kencl, formal report, informal report
• 2017-03 till 2017-08 Daniel Meister, host Prof. Imari Sato, supervisor ČVUT J. Bittner, formal report, informal report
• 2017-03 till 2017-08 Jiri Borovec, host Prof. A. Sugimoto, supervisor ČVUT J. Kybic, formal report, informal report
• 2015-09 till 2016-01 Cenek Albl, host Prof. A. Sugimoto, supervisor ČVUT Tomáš Pajdla
• 2015-01 till 2015-03 Peter Baudis, host Prof. T. Inamura, supervisor ČVUT, Jan Šedivý, formal report, informal report
• 2014-10-till 2015-02 Michal Uricar, host Prof. A. Sugimoto, supervisor ČVUT Vojtěch Franc, formal report
• 2012-09 till 2013-03 Vaclav Jirkovsky, host Assoc. Prof. R. Ichise, supervisor ČVUT Vladimír Mařík, formal report, informal report
• 2011-09 till 2011-12 Tomas Vojir, host Prof. A. Sugimoto, supervisor ČVUT Jiří Matas, report
• 2010-09 till 2010-12 Jan Heller, host Prof. A. Sugimoto, supervisor ČVUT Tomáš Pajdla, report
• 2010-03 till 2010-06 Matej Holec, host Prof. Katsumi Inoue
• 2009-03 till 2009-06 Petr Buryan, host Prof. Katsumi Inoue
• 2008-09 till 2008-12 David Hurych, host Prof. A. Sugimoto, supervisor ČVUT Tomáš Svoboda
• 2006-09 till 2006-12 Martin Rehak, host  Prof. Shinichi Honiden, supervisor ČVUT Vladimír Mařík
• 2006-09 till 2006-12 Lukas Cerman, host Prof. A. Sugimoto, supervisor ČVUT Václav. Hlaváč
• 2005-09 till 2005-12 Monika Zakova
• 2004-09 till 2004-12 Jan Cech, host Prof. A. Sugimoto, supervisor ČVUT Radim Šára

Current stay

• No one.

In preparation

•  2024-10-14 V. Hlaváč submitted two candidates from Faculty of Electrical Engineering Nikos Efthymiadis (supervisor Ondřej Chum) and Jaroslav Moravec (supervisor Radim Šára) for NII International Internship Program, 2nd call in 2024.

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