A "Mirror Lab" is a collaborative framework for researchers from OIST and its partner institutions, establishing a long-term and forward-looking partnership with each institutions’ recognition.
Mirror Labs foster sustained exchange, shared scientific goals, and infrastructure/resource integration.
Mirror Labs are flexible in structure but united by their emphasis on:
- Joint research and training
- Promoting academic/academic-industry collaborations
- Regular interaction between faculty, students, and staff between OIST and the mirror lab partners
- Shared growth of early-career researchers by creating an ecosystem
- Shared practices including administrative practice (recruitment, grant applications, etc.)
- Visibility and strategic positioning for both partners for joint programs and funding
