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JSPS has inaugurated a new program titled "Strategic Program for Building an Asian S&T Community." Building upon JSPS's networks cultivated with countries over long years, this program seeks to establish an Asian science and technology community at the center of which Japan plays a leading role. A variety of activities are to be implemented over the program's 5-year duration.
Under the program, multilayered collaboration will be carried out: Top executives of funding agencies and research councils in Asia will meet together in summits; a heightened sense of Asia as an integrated body will be cultivated and the first steps taken to build an S&T community within it. Ascertaining the policy and scientific needs of each country, international collaborations on a range of related topics will be implemented in a highly responsive manner. These collaborations will form the infrastructure upon which a matrix of effective cooperative relationships will be built. By way of these activities, Japan will be able to strengthen its networks with Asian countries and both optimize and diversify the effects of its collaborations with them.
Supporting Multilayered Collaboration
Asian Summit of Funding Institutions
A program of Asian science summits will be established to bring together under one roof the heads of leading funding agencies and research councils in Asia. At the summits, issues shared among the Asian countries will be discussed along with global problems, common needs identified, and information on leading-edge scientific pursuits in Asia disseminated to the wider global community.
HOPE Meetings
With an eye to fostering the next generation of researchers who will shoulder the future of Asia's S&T community, a forum series will be launched that brings talented young researchers and students from the region's countries together with Nobel laureates and other front-running researchers from Japan and around the world. These fora will give the young participants an opportunity to receive lectures from the senior scientists and to engage them in small-group discussions.
Flexible International Exchanges
Responding to the needs, including policy imperatives, of Asian countries, researcher exchanges, seminars, symposia and other activities will be carried in an expeditious manner.
Database for Networking Researchers
To advance the building of the Asian S&T community, a database will be compiled of researchers in the region who have experienced research in Japan, and networks will be strengthened among them and with their Japanese colleagues.
-Asian Program Division
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