3rd SciREX Open ForumNew Development of Science,
Technology and Innovation Policies

FreeUp to500

participantsSession̲NO.8

New Development of Risk Governance and Communication
Complex Responses to New Infectious Diseases,
Natural Disasters, and Climate Changes
Organizer：University of Tokyo: STIG / Osaka University: STiPS

2021.

2.16（Tue）18:00～19:30

ZOOM sessions
Special website

https://www.scirex-openforum.info/

English-Japanese translation
Session_NO.8 Outline

The risks the society faces are becoming more and more complex alongwith the various environmental changes caused by increasing globalization and interdependence between infrastructure systems. How to copewith such complexity and establish a resilient society is a grandchallenge for governance. This session will take 3 complex risks of
newly infectious diseases, natural disasters, and climate changes.
Through cross comparative analyses of these risks we will try to identify the difference and commonalities of the characteristics and scopeof each risk and discuss the governance and risk communication. The
discussion on governance will focus on the evidence-based policy
making (how the separation and interaction between assessment and management are currently going on; the administrative and research factors that hinder the cooperation across the systems). We will also
discuss how scientific knowledge and risk can be relayed to the society as well as how people share the information as their matters.

Inquiries

scirex-openforum@nagoya-nsc.co.jp

Sponsors

Sponsor: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) SciREX Center
Co-sponsors: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT);and SciREX Core Centers and Related organizations

Speakers

Mikihito Tanaka
Associate Professor,
Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University

So Morikawa
Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering,
The University of Tokyo,

Aﬃliated Fellow, SciREX Center, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

Seita EmoriDeputy Director, Center for Global Environmental Research,
National Institute for Environmental Studies
Panel members

Hideaki Shiroyama
Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy

Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo

Hideyuki Hirakawa
Professor,
Center for the Study of Co* Design, Osaka University
Moderator

Makiko Matsuo
Project Associate Professor,
Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo

Outline
3rd SciREX Open Forum
Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the SciREX Program“New Development of Science, Technology and Innovation Policies”
The Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policies are at a turning point. The STI policies now cover theareas beyond the S&T promotion to cope with the societal change brought by the rapid development of digitaltechnologies and include SDGs that try to solve complex and diverse social issues. It is now essential for the STI
polices to have participation by and co-creation with various stakeholders. Most recently, the new corona virus
pandemic posed a number of issues to be shared not only among the experts but also among the public as seenin communication and mutual reliance between policies and science and the importance of evidence-based policy
decisions. The post-corona pandemic days will face new development different from the previous S&T promotion,
human resources development, and the diversity of science community. What are needed for STI policies? How
the relationship between policies and science should evolve? These issues will be discussed from various angles
through the 11 ZOOM seminar sessions of the SciREX Open Forum, including introduction of the domestic andinternational trends surrounding the science policies as well as the activities of the SciREX Program that is being
funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

Schedule
11 seminar sessions will be held between late December 2020 and March 2021 as follows:【1】Theme No.1 is relationship between policy and science;【2】Theme No. 2 EBPM;【3】Theme No.3 Human resources training; and【4】No. 4 Coevolution.
Also, please note that “M” means main sessions organized by the SciREX Center and“P” is for the sessions proposed by the SciREX core centers and related organizations.

♯ Day & Time112/22（Tue）

21/11（Mon）

3

1/18（Mon）

4

1/21（Thu）

5
6

18:30-19:30

18:00-19:30

18:30-20:00

18:00-19:30
1/26（Tue）
18:30-20:00
2/5（Fri）
18:00-19:30

7

2/12（Fri）

8

2/16（Tue）

18:30-20:00

18:00-20:00

9

2/17（Wed）

10

3/9（Tue）

Projects
Reporting

18:00-20:00

18:30-19:30
2/17（Wed）
Time TBD*Day & Time may change.

Theme

Organizer

Session【1】

SciREX Center

M1：Science, Politics, and Policies【3】

Kyushu University: CSTIPS

P1：Looking back the 7 Years of STI Policy
Course at CSTIPS@Kyushu University【2】

SciREX Center【2】

Kyoto University: STiPS【1】

JST RISTEX

【3】
【3】

【1】

English-Japanese translation

P2：Use of Health and Medical Data in
Cooperation with Local Governments toEnhance EBPM
P3：Science of Science Policy in Post-pandemic
Days: Possibility of Combining Risk andEconomic Models
M3：Changing Science, Technology andInnovation Policy Ecosystem and Human
Resource Development

GRIPS GiST & SciREX Center

M4：Present and Future of the STI Policy

University of Tokyo: STIG

Research and Education

University of Tokyo: STIG

P4：New Development of Risk Governance andCommunication – Complex Responses to the
Newly Emerging Infectious Diseases, Natural
Disasters, and Climate ChangesSciREX Center

Osaka University: STiPS
English-Japanese translation

【4】
【1】

【4】

M2：Prospects of EBPM-based STI Policies

SciREX Center
SciREX Center
English-Japanese translation

MEXT

M5：Ideal and Reality of Policy-Science
Coevolution - to Move to the Next StageP6：Science and Technology Diplomacy

P5: SciREX Coevolution Projects