The 9th Research Fund Subcommittee of the Science and Technology Council Academic Subcommittee was held at the Tokai University Friendship Hall in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. It was reported that 2019 billion yen was secured, which is 86 billion yen higher.Kakenhi has been flat or declining since 2,372, but has finally increased.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Kakenhi covers a wide range of fields from humanities / social sciences to natural sciences, and after soliciting publicly from researchers at universities, etc., it subsidizes all academic research from basic research to applications that are the basis of social development. System to do.
In addition to the 2019 billion yen included in the initial budget for 2,372, 2018 billion yen will be newly added to the supplementary budget for 50.In effect, it will be a significant increase of 136 billion yen.The actual increase in Kakenhi will exceed 100 billion yen for the first time since 2011, except for 2002, when the system was changed.
Kakenhi amounted to 2012 billion yen in 2,566, but after that, it decreased to the 2014 billion yen level in 2,200 and then remained flat. In FY2018, the initial budget was 2,286 billion yen, and about 10 researches were supported for about 7.5 applications, but only about 2.6 were newly adopted.
Japan has produced a large number of Nobel laureates in recent years, most of which are the result of research more than 15 years ago, and recently the proportion of papers with a large number of citations has declined internationally. Ground subsidence has been pointed out.For this reason, there have been repeated calls from the academic community, including Professor Tasuku Honjo of Kyoto University, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
