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JSPS president Prof. Motoyuki Ono was invited to deliver a presentation at an international conference on "Peer Review—Its Present and Future State," held in Prague on 12-13 October. At it, he introduced enhancements that JSPS has made over recent years to the peer review system it uses to screen applications for Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi).
Sessions were held on grant-screening methodologies, approaches to evaluating international networking activities, institutional assessment, and other review-related issues and challenges. Representatives from each country introduced the trends, policies and issues related to peer review in their respective countries, ensued by vigorous discussions on how the peer review process is understood and performed and ways in which it may be enhanced to meet contemporary demands. In his presentation, Prof. Ono placed focus on a system JSPS has devised to improve the quality of peer review examiners, which starts from the selection of document review examiners by JSPS's program officers and ends with a check of each examiner's performance, the results of which are fed into next examiner selection cycle. Strong interest was expressed in this approach from the floor. Note: EuroHORCs was established in 1992 as an informal association of the heads of national research councils and leading research organizations in the EU member states. It serves as an advisory body to the European Commission and functions as a key player in the EU's science policy-decision process. - Research Cooperation Division Ⅱ |
The symposium was organized by the European Heads of Research Councils (EuroHORCs) in cooperation with the European Science Foundation and the Czech Science Foundation, and was attended by about 40 top executives and leading experts from science-promotion agencies and research institutions of mainly European countries.