The 4th ELyT Lab workshop was held in France from March 12 to 14, 2012, in Presqu'ile de Giens (south east). 80 participants (35 coming from Sendai) attended the meeting, including 26 presentations and 11 posters
This ELyT School will be organized by TU for French students. It is planned to have about 15 to 25 students from Lyon in Sendai. The budget will be mainly provided by TU for this action.
This conference is the next of a series on the same topics organized by IFS of TU, Sendai. Usually many persons from ELyT lab are participating.
The objective of this first workshop on this subject is to have a kind of brain storming in order to study solutions to mitigate tsunami.
The next annual workshop is already scheduled. The participants will have to be in Sendai the 23rd evening for a common bus departure on the Feb. 24.

ELyT Lab is a French-Japanese joint research laboratory, involving the following institutions :
Campus Tohoku
Both Tohoku and Lyon have opened Liaison Offices. The aim of these offices is to facilitate :
- exchange of information,
- implementation of joint projects,
- staff exchanges,
- students' mobility,
- links with industries.
On the other hand, the various Liaison Offices which belong to the Tohoku University are organized in network, and have also the purpose to enhance cross-collaborations with very different countries. An annual meeting is organized to define the priority of few actions, involving different teams*.
Thus, it is clear that our liaison office will be efficient tools to facilitate human resource exchanges.