2019 Business Approach Implementation Chronology

OverallProject①Institutional Enhancement by Improving Existing Approaches

Steering Committee

Industry, Academia, and Government Council for Diversity Promotion

Implementation Item
1) Promotion conference, steering committee, task force
・Industry, Academia, and Government Council for Diversity Promotion and steering committee held (7/17,11/25, 2/19)
・Task Force meeting held (11/25, 2/19)
2) Symposiums, etc.
Collaborating
・“Realizing International Diversity in the Research Environment Program Interim General Symposium –Organizations/Development of internationally active women researchers who are established within the local community–”
Memberheld (9/27)
Organizations
3) Creation of a PR video
・Created a video for business promotion (2nd version), etc. (March) (Hiroshima University, Mazda, Micron
Memory Japan, Mitsubishi Chemical)
4) Various promotional booklets created and distributed
・Created and distributed Performance Report 2019 (March)
1) Various promotional booklets created and distributed
Lead・Created a folder and cotton bag for PR, to expand the horizons of the program (December)
Organization ・For incoming new students, gender equality promotion booklet “Follow your own path” made and distributed(March)
1) Non-collection of admission fees of accepted PhD candidates
・As an approach to support career resumption for women researchers who have stopped working,implemented a financial aid policy for the non-collection of admission fees of accepted PhD candidates(deliberated at the admission fees non-collection selection committee 2/12, reported to the president anddecided on 2/17)
2) Partner’s career continuation support
・Introduced the example of obtaining paternity leave in a company newsletter (6/25 Delta Kogyo)
CollaboratingOrganizations/ 3) Institutional enhancement by improving existing approaches
Member・Changed to a new unisex uniform (4/1 Delta Kogyo)
Organizations
・Unofficial offer given by the Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry to be an “accredited company forpracticing labor reform in Hiroshima prefecture” (12/26 Delta Kogyo)4) Seminars, etc. (awareness-raising and information exchange)
・CAPWR-SDGs seminar “Using SDGs when considering the sustainable development of organizations in Japan”
held (8/29)
・CAPWR seminar “Measuring ‘The Gap’ –Gender gap analysis in the innovation process utilizing a patent andthesis data–“ held (12/10)
1) Seminar etc. (awareness-raising and information exchange)
・Gender equality awareness-raising seminar “Gender and Labor” held (5/8)2) Research supporters
・Placed supporters (April to end of September: 26 people, October to end of March: 15 people employed)3) Career continuation support
・Open recruitment of CAP researchers (full-time) who are women who have doctorate degrees and have halted
Leadtheir careers and of CAP researchers (part-time) for spouses of researchers (regardless of gender) (10/21)
Organization 4) Institutional enhancement by improving existing approaches
・Implemented ubiquitous research environmental support (April)・Implemented child support outside of schools during school breaks (3/26-4/8, 7/22-8/29, 12/4-1/6: inHiroshima and Higashi-Hiroshima areas)
・Implemented a subsidiary service to provide support for usage fees of sick child care (4/1-3/31)
・Designed principle and interaction guideline for gender diversity “For working together with students from theLGBT, etc. community” (12/7)
1) Women researcher joint research funding (women as leaders)・Granted research funding to seven applicants who qualified for funding through joint research withcollaborating organizations (9/30)
Collaborating
2) Assignment of joint research mentor
Organizations/・Assigned joint research mentor for those who obtained the funding mentioned above who wish to partake
Member
within the mentor system (12/6)
Organizations
3) Various seminars, etc.
・Total of 219 challengers (21 female) for acquiring a certificate using the certificate accreditation system (end ofJune Delta Kogyo)26②Capacity Development in Women Researchers’ Research Activities③Positive Action in Recruitment and Promotion of Women Researchers

Steering Committee

Industry, Academia, and Government Council for Diversity PromotionImplementation Item
・CAPWR-SDGs seminar “Using SDGs when considering the sustainable development of organizations in Japan”
held (8/29)
・English presentation training implemented (2/14-2/15: implemented in Hiroshima district and HigashiCollaborating
Hiroshima district)
Organizations/ ・English paper-writing seminar conducted by editor of the Nature Journal (2/27-2/29: implemented inMember
Hiroshima district and Higashi-Hiroshima district)
Organizations
・Mentor training seminar held (2/28)
4) Networking event, etc. for participants from different fields and professions
・Networking event conducted for participants from different fields and professions (2/14)
1) Women researcher overseas joint research funding・In order to support joint research of women researchers in research organizations overseas, initiated a call for
Hiroshima University Women Researcher Overseas Joint Research Funding System with a donation from theMicron Foundation (internal revenue sources) (1/8)
2) Women researcher encouragement award
・In order to support obtaining research funding for young female researchers who have not obtained funding,Leadgranted research funding to three researchers (internal revenue sources) (9/30)
Organization
3) Approach to encourage the stimulation of research activities and the application to higher level items ofGrants-in-Aid for Scientific Research・Implemented a Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Step-up Support System to support the promotion oflarge-scale research (internal revenue sources) (8/1)
4) Mentoring young female researchers・Created a handbook about the mentor system (English version published as well) (2/21)
1) Company visits, career seminars, etc. for women students
・Obtained the level of “3 Stars” by meeting all five evaluation criteria updating the “ERUBOSHI (L-Star)”certificate accrediting corporations that conduct women success promotion (August International
Development Center)
・Unofficially decided on the employment of two Myanmar female researchers after opening an international
recruitment call for foreign female researchers (12/1 Delta Kogyo)
・Implementation of a company visit bus tour planned for students (8/9 Micron Memory Japan, 12/11 National
Collaborating
Research Institute of Brewing, 1/10 Otsuka Pharmaceuticals)
Organizations/・Career
Start Support Seminar held (1/20 Mazda)
MemberOrganizations 2) Long-term internship (Women D student)
・UNITAR Hiroshima (7/30-9/25), Hirayama Ikuo Museum of Art (10/2-11/29)
3) Awareness-raising seminars for directors/managers
・Women success promotion training implemented (10/18 Delta Kogyo)
・Skill-up training (effective method for presentation) implemented (11/12 International Development Center)・Coaching and mentoring training (following-up with young and women staff, effective communication)
implemented (12/21 International Development Center)
1) Women-only public recruitment/promotion
・Promotion of three female faculty members decided using in-house promotion system (quota for female
faculty members) (10/21)
Lead・Request for cooperation for the aggressive recruitment of women faculty members at the “women researcher
success promotion committee” (7/16)
Organization
2) Awareness-raising seminars for directors/managers
・CAPWR-SDGs seminar “Using SDGs when considering the sustainable development of organizations in Japan”
held (8/29)
1) Questionnaire survey, etc. (factors preventing diversity promotion, etc.)
・Reported the analysis results of the interviews and questionnaire surveys to Izumi and shared the discovered
Collaboratingissues (12/16)
Organizations/・Reported the analysis results of the questionnaire surveys to Delta Kogyo staff and shared the discovered
Memberissues (1/9)
Organizations・Implemented a questionnaire survey at Mazda (10/7-10/16). Reported the survey analysis results (March)・Reported the analysis results of the questionnaire surveys at Hiroshima University (1/30)
1) Creation of third-party interim evaluation report・Created the report booklet and distributed to related organizations (6/25 mailed, 7/17 promotion council)
Third-party Evaluation
Committee
2) Third-party evaluation committee held
・Conducted meetings, etc. toward the final evaluation (March)④Model Development

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