On November 30th at the Meijo University of Nagoya , Japan, the Member of MIFP Doctor Bernard GIL (sitting right at the first row) Director of Research at CNRS, University of Montpellier 2, France and Bo MONEMAR , Professor at the University of Linköping, Sweden (sitting left at the first row) have been awarded Doctor Honoris Causa of the Faculty of Technology at the Meijo University Nagoya Japan. These nominations have been initiated by Professor Isamu AKASAKI (center at the second row), the inventor of several advanced growth processes for improving the growth, the purification and the doping of semiconductors and the inventor of the blue light emitting diode based on nitride semiconductors. At the second Row, from left to right are respectively standing Professor Shigeru FUKUSHIMA vice-President Director of the International Affairs at the Meijo University Professor Toshiharu NAKANE President of the Meijo University Professor Isamu AKASAKI Professor Akiyoshi KOBAYASHI vice President of the Meijo University, Fellow of the Japanese Society for Precision engineering Professor Koichi YOSHIHISA Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo university. These Doctoris Causa nominations award "the exceptional and determinental contributions of Professor Bo Monemar and Doctor Bernard Gil to the optical properties of nitride strained-layer heterostructures" .