The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has put together a "Research Ability Improvement Reform 2019" aimed at improving Japan's research ability.It will stop the decline in the international status of Japanese research by promoting university reforms such as extension of the term of young researchers and human resources, funding, and environmental reforms in an integrated manner.
According to the Ministry of Education, the term of office for young researchers is often less than three years when adopted in a project, and it is pointed out that it is unstable.In order to overcome this, it was clarified that the hiring period will be extended to about 3 years.Relax the obligation to concentrate on the project so that you can devote a certain amount of time to your research.
It is said that it will be possible to spend agency expenses for non-research operations from the direct expenses of competitive funds, and it will allow personnel expenses to be paid to the principal investigator.The aim is to secure excellent researchers and reduce the amount of time spent by researchers, making it easier to achieve greater research results.
In order to be able to engage in advanced research regardless of the organization, we will start to make it a core facility that shares research equipment and facilities that are distributed and managed from FY2019, as well as AI (artificial intelligence) and Promote the use of robots.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology wants to reflect the contents of the new plan in the comprehensive innovation strategy formulated by the government in June and the five-year science and technology plan from 6.Of the new plans, projects that require budgetary measures will be included in the budget request for the 2021 government budget.
Japan's research capabilities continue to decline in international status due to the number of papers with a large number of citations, and researchers and research institutes such as universities are calling for drastic reforms.
