Keio University will now implement a program for the “Fostering Doctoral Human Resources to Create the Common Sense of the Future” in Ph.D. programs using grants from the JST project “Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation.” This program aims to nurture outstanding and highly driven Ph.D. students responsible for Japan’s future science, technology, and innovation courses.
As part of this program, we aim to nurture the Ph.D. student personnel who, in addition to advanced research prowess, can create new values based on a profound understanding of human endeavor and the workings of society, the ability to identify the challenges requiring solutions; and the ability to appropriately allocate finite resources leading to these solutions, are possessed with the ability to put their original ideas into action to “map the grand designs for future society,” precisely the forthcoming society 50 years from now.
To achieve this, we will offer assistance through research funding and living expense subsidies while supporting pioneering, integrated research activities by highly driven postdoctoral students. Recipients will proactively participate in initiatives that will allow them to develop the capacities required to play an active role in various career paths (career/professional development) while earnestly devoting themselves to tackling their particular research challenges irrespective of academic field.
“Fostering Doctoral Human Resources to Create the Common Sense of the Future” was selected as a project intended to support doctoral students and funded by the Japan Science and Technology Agency’s (JST) “Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation” program. A closer look at the list of recipients selected under this project reveals 14 graduate schools working to create new approaches to comprehensive learning by instilling values, inventing breakthrough technologies, and imagining novel societies. These schools operate highly internationally, and their doctoral students can pursue their research uninhibited.
For Keio University’s part of this effort and to achieve its goal of “pursuing the ideals of leaders and global citizens who will impact future society,” the school is committed to creating a learning environment that will inspire doctoral students, society’s future leaders, to focus on research that is challenging, progressive, and contributes new insights toward humanity’s collective knowledge. Likewise, Keio University will endeavor to promote systems that free students to follow their ideas and intuitions in an open and stimulating community.
Our goal is to encourage the exploration and realization of unparalleled societies. By fostering students whose expertise extends beyond revolutionary technologies into profound understandings of how people and communities work, we raise scholars who will enter the world knowing how to ask questions and nurture talents that will reshape social values worldwide. We hope that you join us on this journey.