On October 5, 2012, NextPV was inaugurated by Takao Shimizu, Vice President of the University of Tokyo and by Roger Genet, General Director for Research and Innovation at the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research.
Sitting in the front row, from left to right: Yoshiaki Nakano (中埜良昭), Director of the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), Tokyo University, Yoshiaki Nakano (中野義昭), Director of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Tokyo University, Takao Shimizu, Vice President of the University of Tokyo, Roger Genet, General Director for Research and Innovation at the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Minh-Hà Pham-Delègue, head of the CNRS-DERCI (European Research and International Cooperation Office).
