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2025 ASPIRE for Top Scientists

Realtime Digital Twin Platforms for Super Smart Society

Led by Institute of Science Tokyo, this project builds a shared real-time digital twin platform across mobility, manufacturing, nursing services, and agriculture.

Duration
Dec 2025 to Mar 2031
Focus
Platform + 4 domains
Network
7 countries · 10 core overseas partners

About the project

From isolated digital systems to a shared real-time digital twin platform for super smart society

Led by Institute of Science Tokyo, this project develops a real-time Digital Twin (DT) platform that transforms field data into reusable DT infrastructure, AI models, and core services. Instead of building separate systems for each sector, it creates one shared foundation across mobility, manufacturing, agriculture, and nursing services.

Supported by a global network spanning 7 countries and 10 overseas partner institutions, the project links platform development with field-based Proofs of Concept (PoCs) in a continuous bidirectional cycle. Its goal is to deliver interoperable, scalable, and internationally shareable DT systems, with societal deployment in at least one region by FY2030.

How the platform works

This project is built around a continuous loop between a shared real-time digital twin platform and four application domains: mobility, manufacturing, nursing services, and agriculture. Secure real-time data and field-specific requirements from these domains are fed into the platform, where they are transformed into reusable digital twin infrastructure, artificial intelligence models, and core services. These platform capabilities are then returned to the fields through validation and proof-of-concept activities, so that each domain not only benefits from the shared foundation but also helps refine and expand it. In this way, the project treats the four domains not as isolated use cases, but as active partners in a bidirectional cycle that drives cross-domain learning, interoperability, and long-term societal deployment.

How the platform works diagram

Global partner network

Led by Institute of Science Tokyo in collaboration with core overseas partners across 7 countries, together with domestic and regional collaboration networks.

7 countries10 core overseas partnersDomestic and regional networks
  • Virginia Tech
  • CEA-Leti
  • University of Sydney
  • Yonsei University
  • RWTH Aachen University
  • Politecnico di Milano
  • Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institute
  • University of Virginia
  • Soonchunhyang University
  • The University of Melbourne

Global knowledge circulation

The ASPIRE project promotes international collaboration by positioning the Institute of Science Tokyo as a hub connecting overseas and regional partner institutions. By opening its real-time Digital Twin (DT) platform to global partners, the project aims to establish a de facto international standard while contributing to standardization activities in organizations such as ISO, ITU, ETSI, and 3GPP. In addition, ASPIRE supports joint research, researcher exchanges, and annual matching workshops, fostering international research teams and nurturing globally competitive young researchers.

Global knowledge circulation diagram

Super Smart Society Global Forum

An annual forum connecting academia, industry, and standardization communities around real-time DT platforms and super smart society applications.

International Matching Workshop for Young Researchers

An annual workshop that helps early-career researchers form international teams, launch joint projects, and grow collaborative research.

Researcher Exchange

Bidirectional exchange across partner institutions that supports joint research, field learning, and the development of globally active young research leaders.