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NICT REPORT 37main for the Japan-US Network Opportu-nity (JUNO2) program, and in the compu-tational neuroscience domain for the Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) project. We also conducted solicitation and selection of proposals for these.Promotion of international joint research with EuropeIn collaboration with the European Commission and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, we conduct-ed the final review of the second round of International Joint Research and the first review of the third round International Joint Research, and also decided the topics and conducted solicitation and selection of proposals for the fourth round Internation-al Joint Research planned to start in FY2018.Participation in international con-ferences and trade showsIn addition to participating proactively in international conferences and forums, presenting research results at events such as Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Expo 2017 (August, USA), we also held our own international seminars and exhibited at international trade shows, including a workshop that we held jointly with Thai-land’s National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (September, Thailand), and exhibits at the ASEAN IVO Forum 2017 (November, Brunei) and CSTB Telecom & Media 2018 (January, Russia).International personnel exchangeAs part of our international personnel exchange in FY2017, we accepted 26 in-ternship students from 22 institutes in 14 countries and regions, including Indone-sia, France, China, the Netherlands, the USA, Canada, Belgium, Thailand, South Korea, the UK, Malaysia, Cyprus, Cambo-dia, and Portugal (in order of acceptance). The trends for number of internship stu-dents accepted and number of institutes in the last five years are shown in Table 1. We also supported researchers from overseas by holding Japanese language training and translating various materials into Eng-lish.Overseas Center activitiesThe NICT Overseas Centers gather re-gional information as needed based on NICT internal requests, collecting and ana-lyzing the latest R&D information from a global perspective, and providing feed-back to the relevant personnel within NICT. In FY2017, we also conducted sys-tematic surveys of R&D trends in brain-in-formation related technologies, interactive and adaptive machine translation, space weather forecasting, and other topics, to provide support to R&D activities.We have also conducted our own initia-tives, mainly through the Overseas Cen-ters, toward international development of R&D results, such as exhibiting at Black Hat USA 2017 (July, USA), the Thailand Na-tional Science and Technology Fair (Au-gust 2017, Thailand), and Digital Thailand Big Bang (September 2017, Thailand). We conduct studies based on requests from laboratories and other departments within NICT to strengthen collaboration within NICT and have also worked on dissemi-nating information regarding NICT R&D and promoting research exchange and collaboration between NICT and overseas institutes, with efforts such as exhibiting at the Jiji Press London Top Seminar on mul-tilingual speech translation. 20132014201520162017Number of institutes 1421201622Number of internship stu-dents1925221926Fig.2 : Demonstrating the dynamic state of the disaster resilience network technology (NerveNet) with power company staff at the dam site (Sept. 12, 2017 in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand)Table 1 : Five-year internship trendsResearch and Development