Sapporo and Hakodate

Universal Academic Cluster International Winter Conference in Sapporo and Hakodate

The goal of the international conference is to provide opportunities for professors, academics researchers and students from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. The academic conference welcomes research presentations in the following fields.

Social Sciences and Humanities:

Architecture, Anthropology, Arts, Communications, Culture, Demography, Ethics, Gender Studies, Geography, Globalization, History, Humanities, International Relations, Journalism, Languages, Laws, Linguistics, Literature, Museums, Media, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Politics and Governance, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Tourism, etc.

Education and Teaching:

Biology Education, Chemistry Education, Counseling, Curriculum and Instruction, Distance Education, Educational Administration, Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, Educational Theory, E-learning, Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Mathematics Education, Measurement and Evaluation, Physical Education, Physics Education, Science Education, Teaching and Learning, Vocational Education, etc.

Science and Technology:

Agriculture, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Ecology, Engineering, Energy, Environment, Food Technology, Forestry, Genetics, Geology, Health Sciences, Information Science, Innovation, Manufacturing, Materials Science, Mathematics, Nursing, Oceanography, Physics, Robotics, Sports Science, Statistics, Transport, etc.

Economics and Business:

Accounting, Banking, Business Administration, Business Ethics, E-commerce, Economic Theory, Finance, Human Resources, Insurance, Logistics, Management, Marketing, etc.

The Universal Academic Cluster (UAC) welcomes you to Sapporo and Hakodate.

Sapporo, capital of the mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, is famous for its beer, skiing and annual Sapporo Snow Festival featuring enormous ice sculptures. The Sapporo Beer Museum traces the city’s brewing history and has tastings and a beer garden. Ski hills and jumps from the 1972 Winter Olympics are scattered within the city limits, and Niseko, a renowned ski resort, is nearby.

Hakodate is one of the main cities on Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island. Looming over the town is 334m-high Mount Hakodate. The mountain's summit, reachable by aerial ropeway gondola, offers dramatic nighttime views. At its base is Motomachi, a neighborhood of steep streets with Western-style, early-20th-century buildings. A city landmark is the grand Old Public Hall of Hakodate Ward, built in 1910.

Formats of Presentation

Oral Presentation: 20 minutes for a presenter (15 minutes for a presentation and 5 minutes for questions)

Poster Presentation: 20 - 30 minutes for a group of presenters (Please prepare a poster smaller than width 50cm x height 120cm)

Note: Our laptop computer will accept USB flash drives. Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat Reader are installed on the laptop computer. Internet access is NOT provided.

Conference Venue

5th floor, Sapporo Cafe, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

(9 - 11 February 2020)

5 Chome-2-3 Kita 8 Jonishi Kita Ward, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

5-minute walk from Sapporo Station

Hotel New Ohte, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan

(12 - 14 February 2020)

8-8 Wakamatsucho, Hakodate, Hokkaido 040-0063, Japan

3-minute walk from Hakodate Station

Conference Submission

Please submit the abstract by email to: staff@universal-conferences.org with mention "9 - 14 February" in subject line.

Within three days of receiving your abstract submission (download), we will notify you of the reviewers’ acceptance or rejection, for the conference. If we inform you that it is an acceptance and you would like to publish your research in the Conference Proceedings of the Universal Academic Cluster, then please email us your full paper in Microsoft Word (at most 20 pages)(download).

Conference Calendar

Submission Deadline: 9 January 2020 Extended to 5 February 2020

Programme Announcement: 28 January 2020

Programme Announcement (2nd): 6 February 2020

Conference Days: 9 - 14 February 2020

Full Paper Submission Deadline: 18 February 2020

Proceedings will be published: 27 February 2020

Preliminary Programme

Registration

Registration is open to everyone (presenters or listeners). Accommodation and meals are not included in the registration fee.

Registration fee (pay online by PayPal):

Early bird rates (until 5 February 2020): 390 USD

Regular rates (until 7 February 2020): 490 USD

Note: Each registered person will receive a Certificate of Participation at the conference. The fee is no refund. You can pay the fee by Western Union or bank transfer. Please, contact us.

Visa

UAC is not authorized to assist with the VISA process beyond providing an Acceptance Letter.

UAC will not provide "Guarantee Letter" and "Reason of Invitation" for visa application.

Accommodation & Travel

For accommodation, we recommend to search by:

www.booking.com or travel.rakuten.com or www.airbnb.com or www.hotelscombined.com or www.trivago.com

For travel, we recommend to search by: www.japan-guide.com or www.jnto.go.jp

***Sapporo Snow Festival***

4-11 February 2020

***Otaru Snow Light Path Festival***

8-16 February 2020

***Asahikawa Winter Festival***

6-11 February 2020

***Chitose Lake Shikotsu Ice Festival***

24 January - 16 February 2020

***Hakodate Winter Festival***

www.hakodate-illumination.com

***Please reserve your accommodation as soon as possible.***