Uji Support Center for Equipment Sharing, KYOTO UNIVERSITY

Uji Support Center for Advanced Collaboration (USACO)

The Uji Support Center for Advanced Collaboration (USACO) officially began operations in October 2019. It serves as the strategic hub for the Uji campus within Kyoto University’s university-wide framework for equipment sharing, based on the University’s Equipment Master Plan.

By integrating the equipment-sharing systems previously managed independently by the four research institutes on the Uji campus—the Institute for Chemical Research, the Institute of Advanced Energy, the Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, and the Disaster Prevention Research Institute—we aim to create a more accessible and user-friendly environment for researchers both within and outside the university.

We invite you to browse our list of available instruments. If you find any equipment you wish to use, please feel free to contact us. We look forward to supporting your research activities.

The Uji area of Kyoto University is a campus with four science and technology research institutes (Institute for Chemical Research, Institute of Advanced Energy, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere and Disaster Prevention Research Institute) spanning a wide range of fields. For this reason, the Uji campus is equipped with a wide variety of cutting-edge and general-purpose equipment. Uji Support Center for Equipment Sharing will strengthen the research base by improving an environment for the shared use of these equipment groups and will support the cutting-edge research of researchers.
When you would like to start research in a different field, you may be able to use the equipment at the center and try out new ideas first.　If you would like to start your research as soon as you arrive, if your equipment breaks down, or you would like to analyze the usual data in more detail, please consider using the center.