The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has begun to solicit program development projects that will enable the development of researchers who can play an active role in the world.With the aim of strategically training excellent scientists, we aim to break through the current situation where the international status in the research field is declining significantly and to innovate from Japan.
According to the Ministry of Education, the support targets are national, public and private universities and R & D corporations.The maximum amount of support is 8,100 million yen, and the project period is up to 10 years.Of these, the grant period will be five years.The recruitment of projects has already started, and after continuing the recruitment until the end of August, documents and interviews will be examined in September, and the selection results will be notified in October.
The conditions for support are to create an environment that aims to grow researchers beyond the boundaries of literature and create science and technology innovation, with an eye on Society 5.0 (a super-smart society promoted by the government), and to return from overseas research institutes. It is said that it will have voluntary efforts to secure young researchers, such as personnel salary management, and to create an environment where researchers and foreign researchers can work hard together.
Japan has recently lost its international status, with the number of published papers declining.As the population continues to decline, it is necessary to improve the productivity of researchers in order to overcome the current situation.For this reason, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology will develop a program for fostering world-class researchers by referring to examples of overseas efforts, and at the same time, research results will be evaluated from overseas and world-class research that can obtain research funds from overseas. Aim to train people.
