Evaluation - Mid-term Evaluation Brief Summary: July 2015

Achievements:

• Human resources training and networking are developing.
• The collected data and analytical methodologies are contributing to making policies in Japan.

Challenges and Direction:

• The research results and human resources need to be integrated. Networking should be strengthened. These efforts will help the program solve critical issues and contribute to making evidence-based policies.
• Diversity and various possibilities should be taken into consideration in solving critical issues.
• Why the program was established needs to be reminded from time to time.
• Human resources training and expansion of networks remain to be essential.
• Academic contents need to be established to train future science policy makers.
• Data and information base and competition-based funding should continue to be developed.
• The SciREX Center should build up its role as the hub of the SciREX program.

External Evaluators:

• Norkio ARAI, Professor, National Institute of Informatics
• Tomohiro ICHIJI, Professor, Seijo University
• Kazuo KITAHARA, Professor, Tokyo University of Science
• Yoshifumi YASUOKA, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo