The Academic Research Council, which is attended by 11 national and private universities such as the University of Tokyo and Keio University, has put together recommendations for securing basic research funds and enhancing research support measures.He urged the government to strengthen its support, saying that the environment surrounding domestic universities is becoming more severe and the financial base required for research is shrinking. increase.
Three specific research support measures were mentioned: national university operating expenses subsidies and private school subsidies as basic research expenses, enhancement of scientific research expenses subsidies, and 30% indirect expenses.The operating cost subsidy of the national university was 3 billion yen in FY2015. Compared to fiscal 1, it has decreased by 945 billion yen, or 2004%.Private school subsidies also peaked in 1,470 and are declining year by year.Under these circumstances, he said that he could not support original basic research, and urged him not to further reduce operating grants and private school subsidies.
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research was highly evaluated as a core financial resource that supports excellent research at universities and is easy for researchers to use.However, since the budget amount has been flat since 2012, we are requesting an increase in the budget amount.
Regarding indirect expenses such as expansion of academic literature and purchase of goods, it is difficult to directly deal with research expenses, and we have applied operating expenses subsidies and private school subsidies, but it has become difficult due to the reduction of grants etc. indicate. The 2016 budget requires that all research expenses be externally added to direct expenses and that 30% of indirect expenses be taken.
