The "Private University Research Branding Business Committee", which is composed of academic experts from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, has 2017 schools (universities and junior colleges) that applied for in June 2017 in the 6 "Private University Research Branding Business". After comprehensively examining the project implementation system and project content, 188 schools were selected as support target schools.
Under the leadership of the president, the private university research branding project is for private universities and private junior colleges, which are making efforts to bring out the uniqueness of the entire university based on the unique research of the university. To support as a whole. The budget for FY2017 is 79 billion yen (ordinary expenses 55 billion yen, facility / equipment expenses 11 billion yen, equipment expenses 13 billion yen), and the selection for FY2016 and the continuation of the "Private University Strategic Research Infrastructure Formation Support Project" Includes support for adoption.
The private universities and junior colleges to be supported are Type A (social development type = research that contributes to the development of local economy / society, employment, culture, and development / deepening of specific fields), and type B (global expansion type). = Research that contributes to national or international economic and social development and science and technology development by establishing cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research bases).
The breakdown of the 2017 schools supported in FY60 is that Type A (social development type) will carry out "Hub function construction and social capital maintenance and development research project for autonomous problem solving in the declining population of the northeastern part of Japan". There were 33 cases such as Hachinohe Institute of Technology, and 27 cases such as Tokyo Denki University, which conducts "formation of a secure and advanced biomedical engineering base in the global IoT era" for type B (global expansion type).
