News

• Call for Paper: Submission is available now (Dec.22, 2010).
• Your presentations of the 1st AOAI Summit are now invited to the two Elsevier Journals! Click here to see more information (Dec. 7, 2010).
• Click here to see the detailed program (Dec. 6, 2010).
• Click here to see announcement for the presenters (Dec.3, 2010).

Call for Registration, Presentation and Paper
The 1st Asia Oceania Algae Innovation summit will be held from 13 and 14th Dec. at the University Hall of University of Tsukuba. Presenters in the summit are able to submit Procedia, an e-only product of Elsevier. Excellent papers submitted among Academic R&D will be published in a journal also. Join the summit and submit now!

Proposal of the Asia Oceania Algae Innovation Summit

The use of algae as an alternative of fossil fuel for the production of fuel and bulk chemicals has attracted worldwide attention in recent years.  The number of algal venture businesses have been growing in Europe and USA, because it has been widely recognized that algae have enormous potential for oil production: 10 to 100 times higher oil production rate than terrestrial oil-crops such as rapeseeds and oil palms, and that, unlike corn and sugarcane, they are totally non-competitive with food production. Algal technology is still immature in the world, but because of such incredible potential, algae will grow to a new big market in the future.
 
Asia-Oceania nations are expected to be the engine of the development of the world economy in the 21st century and would thereby become a mega energy consumption area in the world. In view of the problems of fuel subsidies and the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, the promotion of the algal industry, including production of petroleum, is regarded to be the most important issue of this region.

In the USA and European countries, private companies seem to have played a central role in the promoting of algal industries with strong backup from venture capitals.  The situation seems to be a little different in Asia-Oceania region. Governmental, industrial and academic sectors are involved with moderate cooperation to promote algal industry. Cooperation between these sectors seems to be a common and promising way in this region to develop the new industry. Therefore it is urgently needed to make more efficient cooperation of these sectors to accelerate promoting algal industry in this region.
 
We think it is timely and well deserved for all of us living in Asia-Oceania region to get together and mutually understand stand points for R&D policy making and technological situations of each sectors and nations, which, we believe, would be the most efficient way to achieve promotion of giant algal industries in this region and to realize a large-scale international project in the near future. Therefore, we would like to propose to hold an Asia-Oceania Algae Summit meeting in which we will discuss on the issues listed in the agenda given below. A session for research papers will also be set for scientific information exchange among participants, sectors and nations. The final goal of the summit would be the start-up of international collaboration for promoting algal industry in Asia-Oceania region.
 
We propose the tentative agenda below. This is the first announcement to people who are in Asia-Oceania region and may be interested in this issue. If you agree with our proposal, the first step would be to set up an international committee for the Asia-Oceania Algae Summit and start-up committee members by nomination from each nation. The next step would be to send a call for paper to each country by the name of Asia-Oceania Algae Summit Committee.