The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has adopted 2023 new projects in major research categories such as challenging research under the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research project in 2, which combines Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research and Grants-in-Aid for Academic Research. A total of 3,156 billion yen in direct and indirect costs was allocated to a total of 7 projects.
文科省によると、2023年度の主な研究種目に対する新規応募は、前年度より1,873件少ない8万5,101件。新規採択率は27.2％で、1課題当たりの平均配分額は前年度より19万2,000円増の258万8,000円となった。
The number of new applications for young researchers was 1.This was 3,060 fewer cases than the previous year.The number of newly adopted projects was 82, which is 5,274 fewer than the previous year.The new acceptance rate is 19%.This is almost the same as the previous year's 40.4%.
The breakdown of the allocated amount is 1,667 billion yen for direct expenses and 500 billion yen for indirect expenses. The average direct cost allocation per project was 1 yen, 209 yen more than the previous year.
The number of accepted proposals for female researchers was 5,144.It accounted for 22.2% of the total.The new adoption rate was 28.6%, slightly higher than the 26.8% for men. The number of applicants under the age of 40 accounted for 29.6% of the total.The new adoption rate was 34.3%, 27.2 points higher than the overall rate of 7.1%.
National universities had the highest number of applications and acceptances, followed by private universities.In terms of research fields, medicine and dentistry-related fields topped the list at 33.8%.This was followed by social sciences at 22.2% and engineering at 7.4%.
