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Report of “Secrets to Winning a Scholarship”
Reporter: Qianqian Luo【Planner】
・Qianqian LUO(Grad. Sch. of. Bioagri. Sci. Department of Plant Production Sciences/D1)
・Chaoqi CHEN
(Grad. Sch. of. Sci. Department of Chemistry/D1)
・Jianhao HUANG (Grad. Sch. of Eng. Department of Molecular Design and Engineering/D1)
・Qi MENG(Grad. Sch. of Pharm. Sci. Department of Basic Medicinal Sciences/D2)
・Fanjie LYU(Grad. Sch. of Sci. Department of Chemistry/D2)【Outline of the event】
We organized an offline event for students to ask for advices during writing JSPS application, andinvited senior students from different disciplines who’ve already got JSPS scholarship to give oneon-one suggestions to participants about how to revise the application more perfectly.
【Background and purpose of the event】
BackgroundIn academic field, it is very difficult to win a scholarship especially JSPS scholarship. How to write
research proposal clearly? How to attracting the research through modifying figures and sentences?
How to explain research more understandable to people from different fields? There must be manyquestions asked by the beginners who want to apply for a scholarship. In addition, it is very hard forinternational students to write an application in Japanese, so the tips of English scholarship
application writing are also very needed. In GTR, there are many seniors got JSPS scholarship, so it
is meaningful to organize a communication activity for students who want to know how to write agood research proposal and attracting application supported by JSPS adopters. And by inviting
international JSPS adopters who wrote application in English, international students can also beencouraged to apply for JSPS.
The purpose of the event
1. Help students to revise JSPS scholarship applications.
2. Improve the skill of how to write research proposals.
3. Promote interdisciplinary communication.
【Details of the event】
Schedule of the event organizing

Date of the event
13 MayDate: 13 May 2022 (Fri) 13:00-17:00 （Participate at any time）
Venue: Science Building C 3rd Classroom C-219
Participants:
Open to all graduate schools and academic years(31 persons participated)
Support from JSPS adopters(10 persons participated):
Kohei KAWAGUCHI
Satoru KINOSHITAKai Yonemura
Yoshiki Tanaka
Hiroya OKA
Kosaku Noba
Jianhao HUANG
Hirofumi TESHIMA
Qi MENG
Taishu TAKEUCHI
Poster:(Grad. Sch. of. Bioagri. Sci./D3)(Grad. Sch. of Sci./PD)(Grad. Sch. of Sci./D3)(Grad. Sch. of Sci./D1)(Grad. Sch. of Eng./PD)(Grad. Sch. of Eng./D3)(Grad. Sch. of Eng./D1)(Grad. Sch. of Pharm. Sci./D3)(Grad. Sch. of Pharm. Sci./D2)(Grad. Sch. of Pharm. Sci./D2)

【Questionnaire of the event】

Summary of the questionnaire
There are 28 persons from M1 to D2 or higher answered the questionares. Most of them comefrom Graduate school of Science and Bioagricultural Science. A quarter of them are from outside theGTR program. In addition, we reminded participants to write "confidential contents" in theapplication if any confidential contents are included in their documents. International students makeup a third of the participants. About survey of the difficulties of JSPS application, 70% of students
found it difficult to write a research plan, followed by 60% of students who found self-analysis
difficult. And over 90% of students wanted to receive suggestions from JSPS adopters about how to
express the idea more clearly and understandably by sentence modifying. The attendance time ofparticipants were investigated, most of them can participate in any session from 13:00 to 17:00.

【Schedule of the event】
13:00-13:30
Introduction of the event
1) Outline of the event
2) Experience sharing of each JSPS adopter)13:30-17:00

Peer review:
Senior review:Grouping table

The event sitegroup discussion(JSPS applicants discussed with each other)
one-on-one suggestions(JSPS adopters give advices to JSPS applicants)

【Results】
Benefits from event
1. Benefited the participants optimizing the JSPS forms and describing the idea more concise andclearly by directly receiving comments from seniors and peers, for example, designing illustration,highlighting the important sentences, making a clear research plan and so on.
2. Participants can not only have chances to discuss with seniors who have same background, but they
can shift to communicate with students from other fields, which helped them practice explaining theirresearch more straightforward and understandable. For example, reducing using academic term byreplacing as common word, enough explanation of academic term and background introduction.
3. Encouraged international students to apply for the JSPS by inviting JSPS adopters who areinternational students to share experiences.
4. Promoted interdisciplinary communication by connectting with students from differen disciplines.
What planners have learned
1. Basic information and needs of the participants which gained from questionnaire help us to ask
JSPS adopters to give more specific suggestions. For example, we assign different JSPS application
instructors to participants depending on their specialties and questions.
2. Hearing accepting from GTR program helped us consider more details of event organizing. For
example, application confidential keeping, schedule adjustment, budget management and so on.
Experience sharing
1. This time the feedback questionnaire was rarely answered because we didn’t show thequestionnaire link just at the end of the event. We should release the questionnaire as early as
possible to avoid being forgotten to be replied by participants.
2. In this event, discussion and communication is the main format, but the location of the chairs andtables in rented room can’t be changed freely, which limited the discussion in at most 5 people at thesame time. For the section of group discussion, we need more space and movable tables and chairs.
3. If time permits, we can arrange two times event, participants can revise their documents after thefirst event, the second event can be arranged for further discussion and review to improve the qualityof the application documents.
【Acknowledgements】
This event was supported by the Graduate School of Transformative Chemistry and Bioinformatics,
Nagoya University, Japan. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all kind supports
from the professors and administrators involved in the program.