• to meet people who are working in your niche-fields as given under “Technical Programme ”;

• to gain new ideas and latest information in the field of materials science and process engineering.

...in other words...
looking over the edge of the plate in a kind of global brainstorming

The goal of the 5th German-Japanese OZ-Symposium is additionally

• to help for the ongoing success of the Japanese Educational Exchange Programme under the roof of and 100% supported by the Japanese Government.

OZ-12 is supported by the Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO) Project and the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Area, "Bulk Nanostructured Metals", through MEXT, Japan.

The Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization (R-GIRO) Project:
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/eng/html/research/

and the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Area, "Bulk
Nanostructured Metals", through MEXT, Japan:
http://www.bnm.mtl.kyoto-u.ac.jp/