The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science announced the selection results of the 2017 university global expansion capability enhancement project "Support for the formation of inter-university exchanges with Russia, India, etc."

 The university's global expansion capability enhancement project aims to foster global human resources who can play an active role internationally and strengthen the global expansion capability of university education.・ A project aimed at supporting efforts for international educational cooperation with universities in Europe and other countries. In fiscal 2017, as "support for the formation of inter-university exchanges with Russia, India, etc.", we will focus on financial support for the two projects of "exchange promotion program" and "platform construction program" with universities in both countries. ..

 We are soliciting projects to be supported from national, public and private universities nationwide, and have a total of 7 "Exchange Promotion Programs" in Russia, 2 "Exchange Promotion Programs" in India, and 1 "Platform Construction Program" in Russia and India. The case was adopted.

 Chiba University, Tokyo Foreign Language University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanazawa University, Nagasaki University and Fukushima Prefectural Medical University (joint application), Tokai University, Kinki University were adopted in Russia's "Exchange Promotion Program".

 Nagasaki University and Fukushima Medical University (joint application) "Leader development project in the field of disaster and exposure medical science through collaboration between Japanese and Russian universities" is a project of three Russian institutions such as the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and Belarus such as the National Belarus Medical University. We will cooperate with two institutions.Tokai University's "Russo-Japanese Bridge Human Resources Development in the Field of Life Care" will collaborate with a total of five institutions, including Moscow State University.

 The "Exchange Promotion Program" in India was adopted by Hokkaido University's "International Joint Research Ability Development Program for Building Sustainable Transportation Systems and Social Infrastructure" and Hiroshima University's "Innovation to Socially Implement Advanced Technology". International Linkage Degree Program for Human Resource Development ".Hokkaido University collaborates with 3 institutions such as Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and Hiroshima University collaborates with 6 institutions such as Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

 In addition, in the "Platform Construction Program", the program with Russia was adopted by Hokkaido University and Niigata University (joint application), and the program with India was adopted by the University of Tokyo.The standard amount of subsidy is 4 million yen per year for the "Exchange Promotion Program" and 1 million yen per year for the "Platform Construction Program", and the subsidy period is up to 5 years.

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