The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has adopted more than 2017 new applications out of more than 10 in major events such as special promotion research of the 2 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, and allocated about 5,000 billion yen including the continuation. ..The number of applications for basic research and young research that support the diversity of academic research has increased significantly compared to the previous year, but the policy target of new acceptance rate of 2,100% has been secured.
According to the Ministry of Education, the number of new applications in 2017 reached 10, 1,247% higher than the previous year.The new acceptance rate is 0.01%.Of these, 25 were newly adopted, a decrease of 2% from the previous year.The total number of adoptions, including the continuation of 5,313, was 5.1, a record high for the total number.
The amount of the subsidy is 1,628 billion yen for direct expenses and 489 billion yen for indirect expenses, for a total of 2,117 billion yen.Of this amount, the direct cost for the newly adopted amount was 643 billion yen, 0.9% lower than the previous year.The average direct cost allocation per issue, including new adoption and continuation, is 1 yen.It has increased by 215 yen from the previous year.However, since the average allocation amount has continued to decrease recently, it is 5,000 yen less than in FY1.
National universities accounted for 53.6% of the total number of accepted applications by researcher's institution.7.5% for public universities, 27.2% for private universities, and 11.6% for others.The proportion of national universities has been on a long-term declining trend, down 1.2 points from the previous year, while private universities, which continue to increase, are up 0.8 points from the previous year.In terms of allocation amount, national universities accounted for 62.8%, public universities 5.5%, private universities 19.1%, and others 12.6%.
Looking at the number of adoptions by field, biological systems are the top with 44.4%.Science and engineering 19.9%, humanities and social sciences 19.8%, and general 15.8%.
