Strategic Professional Development Program for Young Researchers
Top Runner Development Program Engaging Universities,
National Labs, and Companies
Strategic Professional Development Program for Young Researchers
Top Runner Development Program Engaging Universities,
National Labs, and Companies
■Management System
A “Consortium Council” will be established as a headquarter to facilitate the development and validation of this researcher development program. It will consist of implementation managers from implementing institutions. The planning and verification of the contents of the researcher development program will be carried out by highly specialized personnel including URA in a “working group” that operates under the “Program Manager (PM)” who oversees the entire project. The “Program Enhancement Committee” is responsible for evaluating and improving the overall researcher development program, and the “Advisory Board” provides necessary advice regarding its activities.
■National Collaboration
We will actively exchange information with the other institutions selected for this project (Kyoto University, Hiroshima University, Tohoku University, and Nagoya University) and the institution selected for the “Comprehensive Support Project” (JST). We will actively incorporate good practices from other institutions, as well as provide information on development status and effectiveness of the researcher development program based on this proposal.
In addition, we will incorporate collaborative efforts into the “MIRAICLE” subjects regarding the researcher development efforts that have been carried out by the implementing organizations to date.
■Participating Institutions
Representative Institution
Partner Institutions
[Universities]
Ibaraki UniversityOchanomizu University
[National Laboratories]
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and TechnologyNational Agriculture and Food Research OrganizationNational Institute for Materials ScienceNational Institute of Genetics
[Companies]
ARK INNOVATIONTOYAMA Co., Ltd.Development Bank of Japan, Inc.SEKISHO CORPORATIONIBM Japan, Ltd.FIMECS, Inc.
Collaborative Institutions
[National Laboratories]
Meteorological Research Institute National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management Tsukuba Primate Research Center, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences National Institute for Environmental Studies Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Forest Research and Management National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience RIKEN BioResource Research Center High Energy Accelerator Research Organization Japan International Cooperation Agency Tsukuba Center[Companies]
Tsukuba Center, Shimadzu Corporation Springer Nature Japan K. K. Hamamatsu Photonics K. K.(*) National laboratories: Public research institutions, including National Research and Development Agencies, Inter-University Research Institute Corporations, ministry and agency research institutes, and the research institutions of incorporated administrative agencies are collectively known as “Kokken,” or national laboratories.
* Collaborative Institutes may be added.