The government has revised the "Comprehensive Strategy for Creating Towns, People, and Work," which stipulates the basic policy for regional revitalization, and has included the establishment of new grants for local universities in collaboration with local local governments and companies.We will subsidize human resource development and industrial promotion at local universities and encourage the creation of local universities that are attractive to local young people.

 According to the Town, People, and Work Creation Headquarters, new grants will be selected by the National Council of Experts for joint ventures of local universities, local governments, and companies.The maximum amount of grant is 1 billion yen per year.The grant period is 10 years, and it is expected to be about 5 in FY2018.
The subsidy ratio to the project cost is 50 to 75%.The more research and innovative projects that lead to university reform, the higher the subsidy rate.The government will allocate 2018 billion yen to the 100 budget and submit it to the 2018 ordinary session of the Diet.

 In order to alleviate the concentration of university students in Tokyo, the policy is to submit to the ordinary Diet session a bill that does not allow the increase in the number of universities in the 23 wards of Tokyo in principle.In addition, it has included a direction to drastically strengthen measures to encourage young people to move to rural areas.It is envisioned that the migration information sites operated independently by the local government will be consolidated, and in January 2018, a meeting of experts will be set up to disseminate the appeal of local life.

 The Town / People / Work Creation Comprehensive Strategy is a five-year plan formulated by the government at the end of 2014 with the aim of regional revitalization and correction of overconcentration in Tokyo.Since there is no sign that the overconcentration will be corrected even after the strategy is formulated, the sense of crisis is clearly stated for the first time, saying, "A region where the number of children and young people who will bear the future will decrease significantly may be in danger of disappearing."

reference:[City / People / Work Creation Headquarters] Depending on the proceedings of the 15th Town / People / Work Creation Headquarters Meeting

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