In the mid-term evaluation of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's "Research University Strengthening Promotion Project" conducted for 22 universities and university joint use institutions nationwide, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is Kyoto University, Osaka University, Tohoku University, Waseda University, Natural Science Research. The five institutions of the Organization were given the S rank, which is the highest of the six-grade evaluation.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, this project has been underway since 2013 with the aim of securing, utilizing and strengthening research capabilities as "research administrators" who promote research management at universities and other institutions.The business promotion committee examined the reports submitted by each institution and evaluated them on a 6-point scale from the highest S to the lowest D.
Of the five institutions that received the S rank evaluation as excellent, Kyoto University was evaluated as having an adoption rate of about 5% for support projects due to the acquisition of external funds in the humanities and social sciences.Osaka University is recognized that research administrators are maximizing their R & D effects by sharing their wisdom.
Tohoku University holds a monthly meeting of research administrators with different affiliations such as headquarters, departments, and laboratories to promote cooperation and information sharing. The establishment of a consortium in which the participants participated was highly evaluated.At Waseda University, attention was focused on strengthening the functions of the university-wide research conference chaired by the president.
The A rank of the standard evaluation is 15 institutions such as Hokkaido University, the University of Tokyo, and Nagoya University, and the B rank, which requires further efforts to realize the concept, is Okayama University and Keio University, and it is said that it is difficult to realize the concept. There were no C ranks and D ranks for which business suspension was appropriate.
It was also found that the number of research administrators employed and assigned in this business reached 2016 in FY244.
