The Saudi Royal Family and the University of Tokyo have signed an initial agreement to set up the Mohammed bin Salman Center for Future Science and Technology.
The new center will boost innovation in scientific and technological research between Saudi Arabia and Japan in areas that will include cybersecurity, renewable energy, energy efficiency, robotics, and medical science. The MBS Center will also support Saudi scholarship students at the University of Tokyo.
The agreement took place at a public signing ceremony and was attended by the president of the University of Tokyo, and Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Japan, Naif bin Marzouq Al-Fahadi. Ambassador Al-Asaker said “Saudi-Japanese relations have been strong and distinguished for over six decades, and this has created an encouraging and stimulating environment for cooperation in various fields, especially in the scientific, technical, research and educational fields. Today, we witness an important part of this cooperation manifest in announcing the establishment of the Mohammed bin Salman Center for Future Science and Technology at the prestigious University of Tokyo.”
Ambassador Al-Asaker emphasised that the new agreement was an extension of the existing partnerships Saudi Arabia and the University of Tokyo, which include current programmes that train 60 young Saudi men and women at the university in a number of scientific fields
