Up to 50 million yen paid to young researchers over 7 years Supporting original research June 14 5:04
In order to create an environment in which young researchers can study freely, 700 new young researchers in science and technology in Japan are selected, and a new country's project will be provided with a maximum of 50 million yen in research expenses per person for 7 years Open call for participants started this month.
Since Japan is said to have less research power than Europe and the United States and China, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has established a fund of about 50 billion yen to create an environment in which young researchers can study freely with their ideas. We will start a new business.
In the project, 700 researchers are selected from the publicly recruited young researchers, and an average annual research cost of 7 million yen is paid for 7 years in principle.
Basically, the young researchers selected will spend less time preparing documents for obtaining research expenses for seven years, and will be able to devote themselves to their research.
The open recruitment will be divided into three years, and we are planning to start the open recruitment from this month to select about 200 people this year, and to select documents and interview.
Applicants are young researchers who belong to domestic research institutes and have fulfilled the conditions set for each specialized field, such as 15 years or less since they obtained their Ph.D. It is necessary to have a plan.
The State has requested that young researchers selected should give consideration to their institution so that they can have independent laboratories during the period, and it is expected that young researchers will be able to actively tackle difficult problems. I am.