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University Fellowship Founding Project for Innovation Creation in Science and Technology (MEXT)

Objective of Fellowship Program“Fellowship program to foster architects who lead super-smart society withco-creating innovative solutions to “X-Care” social issues”“Nambu-Einstein Fellowship Program”“Fellowship program to foster international Ph.D. holding researchers
through materials innovations”

Prof. Toshiyuki Matsui
Faculty of Liberal Arts,Sciences and Global Education
Chair of Fellowship Project Steering Committee

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Science, Technology and Innovation Basic Plan:
https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/english/outline_plan.pdf

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Society That Japan Aims for (Society 5.0)

“Sustainable and Resilient Society That Ensures the Safety andSecurity of the People, and a Society in Which Each Individual
Can Realize Diverse Happiness (Well-Being)”……Realization of theSDGs
Traditional Japanese values of “trust” and “sharing”
To realize such society……

“Social Transformation utilizing Convergence of Knowledge”
and“Investments in Knowledge and Human Resources”•“convergence of knowledge” that fuses the natural sciences withhumanities and social science•

Development of human resources to support a new society

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The background and the objective of this project (MEXT)
Ph.D. students account for 20% of the first authors of published academic papers. They takean important role in the fields of frontier research and leading science technologies andinnovations for next generation. Securing capable masters students aiming to be a Ph.D.
student is essential for this country as the world is getting more competitive to retail highly
skilled people.
In Japan, however, the number of Ph.D. students and doctors shows a tendency to decrease
unlike other countries; acquiring Ph.D. does not attract students anymore because of theeconomic insecurity and the future career-paths being unclear.

Also, it has been pointed out that outstanding students no longer wish to become a researcher
because of the disappointments in the environment surrounding researchers; this brings up aserious concern about a hollowing out of the future science, technology & innovation in Japan.
The situation keeps to get worse with the spread of COVID-19 infections and the deteriorationof the economy and the research environment. In order to resolve such a critical situation, wehave to move fast to establish the countermeasure linked to the reformation of the university
system; in other words, universities in our country need to change the way of providing
support for Ph.D. students drastically.
Given the circumstances, it is our university’s strategy to provide Ph.D. students with better
treatment and support for their career-paths.

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Basic policy of the programThis program aims to encourage more and more excellent master’s program
students to enroll in our PhD program, to provide them support for strengthening
research capabilities and developing career path, and to develop human resources
who play an important role in building the future society.
We see this program is regarded as a function to be permanently implemented at
research universities. Through this program, we aim to raise the status of ouruniversity to a higher level by accelerating the following:
・Further research promotion at our university especially by strategic acquisitionof research funds.
・Contribution to the local community and the society by excellent young
researchers fostered by this program