Events

08/26/2020

+Call for Participants : Online One-day SciREX Summer School

GRIPS Innovation, Science, Technology and Policy Program (GIST), Program for Education and Research on Science and Technology in Public Sphere (STiPS), SciREX Center

This is to announce a call for participants in the Online One-day SciREX Summer School to be held 10:00-17:30 on Saturday, September 19, 2020 .

The SciREX Program, having its 5 core centers at 6 universities (GIPS, University of Tokyo, Hitotsubashi University, Osaka University/Kyoto University, and Kyushu University), promotes training of people who will be engaged in making evidence-based policies, new research area of "science of science, technology and innovation policy," and those who will connect policy and research. At the same time, the Program carries world-level research and human resources training to carry relevant basic research.

The SciREX Program has annually held Summer Camp (see the past camps here), but for this particular year of 2020 it will hold a One-day Online Summer School as below. It will be a Webinar by inviting several faculty members of the SciREX Core Centers and members of the related organizations as speakers, which will provide the participants with an opportunity to understand the Core Centers' activities, share their research results, and exchange opinions. An optional online social networking activity will also be held after school. The lectures in Japanese will have a Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation service.

If you are interested in participating in the Summer School, fill in the registration form and click "send" by Tuesday, September 15, 2020. For details of the lectures and topics, see the Application Guidelines.

Outline:
Date & Time: Saturday, September 19, 2020 10:00-17:30
Sponsors: SciREX Core Centers, SciREX Center
Language: Japanese with Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation service
Fee: Free
Eligible participants: Those interested in science, technology and innovation policy (high school students and up); Those involved in SciREX projects; Faculty members and those involved in the educational programs at the SciREX Core Centers; Government officials involved in the SciREX Program

Venue: ZOOM online webinar
Number of participants: Up to 300 people
Questions: to Scirex-center@grips.ac.jp

Schedule:
10:00-12:10 Lecture 1 "EBPM for STI Policy in the Changing World"
MC: SUMIKURA Koichi, Professor, GRIPS
Lecturers:
ARIMOTO Takeo, Adjunct Professor, GRIPS
KURODA Masahiro, Adjunct Professor, GRIPS
KAWAKAMI Koji, Professor, Kyoto University
SANO Wataru, Professor, Kyoto University

12:10-13:00 BREAK: Lunch-time Sessions (12:15-12:55), inviting government officials; if interested, select the topic you wish to participate on the registration form.

Topic 1: "European Science and Technology Policy: What Japan can learn from the European countries that make policies beyond country borders"
Lecturer: IWABUCHI Hideki, Director, International Nuclear and Fusion Energy Affairs Division, Research and Development Bureau, MEXT
(Former Counsellor, Mission of Japan to the EU)

Topic 2: "Science, Technology and Innovation Policy in a Changing Era (focusing on the new corona virus disease)
Lecturer: NAKAZAWA Keita, Planning Director, Bureau of Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office

Topic 3: "Science, Innovation, and Diplomacy/Security: from Cases of Quantum Technology, AI, and Cybersecurity"
Lecturer: UEDA Mitsuyuki, Counsellor, National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC), Cabinet Secretariat

13:00-15:00 Lecture 2 "Innovation Creation in Local Areas"
Lecturers:
NAGATA Akiya, Professor, Kyushu University
ETO Manabu, Professor, Hitotsubashi University

15:00-15:15 BREAK

15:15-17:15 Lecture 3 "Evidence to Make Decisions for Crisis Governance and Communication"
Lecturers:
SHIROYAMA HIdeaki, Professor, University of Tokyo
MATSUO Makiko, Project Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
HIRAKAWA Hideyuki, Professor, Osaka University
YAGI Ekou, Professor, Osaka University
Commentator:
TANAKA Mikihito, Associate Professor, Waseda University

17:30 ADJOURN

17:30-19:30 Networking (Optional): The participants can have free discussions on their concerns and research. [Students' presentations]: Students will have an opportunity (casual, not formal) to make 1-2 paged power point presentations, including their self-introductions. If you wish to make such a presentation, please check mark the item on the registration form. It would be a good opportunity to have comments from the faculty members and students of other universities.