On September 2019, 9, the "Future Doctoral 14-minute Competition 3" was held in Hiroshima, where doctoral students explained their research vision in an easy-to-understand manner in 3 minutes.Organized by "Local Concert Platform for the Future *".
The "Future Doctoral 3-minute Competition" aims to improve the communication skills of doctoral human resources and to make the general public understand the attractiveness of doctoral human resources and the usefulness of doctoral research. Twenty-five doctoral students from six universities, mainly in western Japan, participated in the "Future Doctor 3-minute Competition 2019", including Hiroshima University, Ehime University, Tokushima University, Gifu University, Yamaguchi University, and Hiroshima City University.The students explained their research vision in English or Japanese to about 6 people, including the general audience, in a short time of 25 minutes in an easy-to-understand and attractive manner.Judging was conducted by both the Judging Committee and the audience, and was judged according to criteria such as the content and attractiveness of the research, novelty and comprehensibility.
The highest award was given to Hanako Umehara of Hiroshima University, who presented her research theme, "Titanium thin film that controls cells."Mr. Nohisa Kawahara, Director and Vice President of Hiroshima University, who served as the chair of the judging committee, recalled this competition and said, "Every presentation was well prepared. In this competition, presentations in the fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and agriculture will be presented. Relatively many have shown that research contributes to improving our health and quality of life. "
In addition, the academic publisher "Springer Nature", which deals with "nature" this time, is supporting the competition to support the challenge of young researchers working on ambitious and interdisciplinary research subjects.The Springer Nature Award was set up, and the research theme "Are there still wild chickens in the Philippines?" Was presented at the Department of Integrated Life Sciences, Graduate School of Integrated Life Sciences, Hiroshima University. Jade Daphne Zarate Compendio won the award.
3分間コンペティション（3MT®）は、2008年にクイーンズランド大学で発足し、6大陸の400以上の機関で開催されている。シュプリンガー・ネイチャーが支援する「2019 Asia-Pacific 3MTコンペティション」は、2019年10月上旬にオーストラリアで開催され、オーストラリア、ニュージーランド、シンガポール、香港、マレーシア、タイ、および日本を含む2018年の大学3MTファイナリストが集結した。
* The regional concert platform that opens up the future is one of the initiatives of the "Next Generation Researcher Development Program", a consortium for science and technology human resources development implemented by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and is jointly implemented by Hiroshima University, Yamaguchi University, and Tokushima University. It has become.
