The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has announced that it has allocated 2021 billion yen in total for direct and indirect expenses in the 2,213 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research.The number of newly adopted cases was 2, a decrease of 6,550% from the previous year, but the total number of adopted cases including the continuation was 7.1, which is 8% higher than the previous year.
According to the Ministry of Education, the number of applications for new adoption was only 9, down 5,208% from the previous year.It has the lowest number of applications compared to the past five years.The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology believes that the corona illness caused a series of extension of the research period for the subject.The new acceptance rate is 8.6%.It exceeded 5% in the previous year by 27.9 points.
The total allocation amount of 2,213 billion yen was 1,702 billion yen for direct expenses and 511 billion yen for indirect expenses, an increase of 0.4% from the previous year. Of the average allocation amount per research project, the direct cost is 1 yen.It is 202% lower than the previous year, the lowest amount since 7,000.
The number of female researchers adopted was 5,541, accounting for 20.9% of the total.The new acceptance rate has reached 28.5%, which is higher than the 27.7% of male researchers.The number of registered female researchers has increased to 1,916 in recent years, but the number of applications has fallen below the previous year.
The number of researchers under the age of 40 was 8,723, accounting for 32.9% of the total.Both the number of applications and the number of adoptions are lower than the previous year.
The number of adoptions by institution was 52.9% (1) for national universities, 4,054% (7.3) for public universities, 1,936% (28.3) for private universities, and 7,513% (11.5) for others.
