R&D Currently Funded
| R&D Focus Area/Program | Program Supervision | Goals |
|---|---|---|
| Responsible Innovation with Conscience and Agility | KARASAWA Kaori Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Promote R&D of ethical, legal and social implications/issues (ELSI), which aims to create practical collaborative models that contribute to the dissemination and establishment of responsible research and innovation (RRI). |
| SOLVE for SDGs Scenario/Solution | KAWAKIRTA Hideto CEO, International Institute for Human, Organization and the Earth |
Contribute to the achievement of SDGs by promoting in an integrated manner from the clarification of social issues and bottlenecks and creation of the scenario to the creation of the solution through collaboration and co-creation with diverse stakeholders while utilizing scientific methods based on expertise from the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences |
| SOLVE for SDGs Social Isolation & Loneliness | URA Mitsuhiro Professor, Otemon Gakuin University/ Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima University |
This program promotes R&D including academic research, such as understanding the causes and mechanisms of social isolation and loneliness and producing a new image of society, as well as the development of visualization and evaluation methods (indicators, etc.) for the risk of the issues, and the development of preventive measures on the issues. These are expected to be conducted in an integrated way up to the Proof of Concept (PoC). |
| Human-Information Technology Ecosystem | KOKURYO Jiro Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University |
Grasp and foresee the changes that information technology may cause, promote R&D for cooperative design of technology and systems with understanding from society, and aim at creating a society where information technology and humanity are in harmony |
| Creating a Safe and Secure Living Environment in the Changing Public and Private Spheres | YAMADA Hajime Professor Emeritus, Toyo University; President, NPO Information and Communications Policy Forum (ICPF) |
Aim at presenting systems and technology that contribute to the creation of a framework that enables public-private cooperation for the discovery and intervention (support) that prevent problems such as threats and accidents regarding safety and security that grow in seriousness with shrinking households, spreading social media, and other social changes as well as to contribute to such activities |
| Science of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy | YAMAGATA Zentaro Professor, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Research, University of Yamanashi |
Aim at establishing grounds that contribute to the formation of science and technology innovation policies based on objective evidence and developing analytical methods, etc. to that end |
