April 27 The Watanabe Fund awarded grants to thirteen parties and on that occasion a ceremony was held in the Celebration Hall of the University of Iceland.
Nine students and four scholars in a wide variety of fields at both Icelandic and Japanese universities receive grants totaling ISK 11 million from the Watanabe Scholarship Fund at the University of Iceland. The grants were handed over at a ceremony in the Celebration Hall of the University of Iceland on Thursday 27 April. Attending the distribution were Toshizo Watanabe, the fund's founder, and his wife, Hidemi Watanabe.
Matís is related to the allocation of one grant, but Kazufumi Osako, associate professor at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, receives a grant for a week's stay in Iceland, to strengthen tripartite collaboration with both the Faculty of Food and Nutrition at the University of Iceland and Matís. Guðjón Þorkelsson is the contact person for the University of Iceland because of this and accepted the grant on behalf of the grant recipients. Kazufumi Osako will meet with Matís and the Faculty of Food and Nutrition at the University of Iceland, in September this autumn in connection with the World Seafood Congress.