Major Funding Sources

Strategic Funds for the Promotion of Science and Technology, former Special Funds for Promoting Science and Technology, was established in 2011 and is an indispensable mean to strategically promote science and technology innovation policies worked out by the Council for Science and Technology Policy itself drawing in all Japanese ministries. The Council with its function as supervisor of science and technology policies overlooks every policy coming from the Japanese ministries and allocates the funds to necessary policies.
The Program for the Cultivation of Human Resources which is an undertaking of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology realized with Funds for Development of Human Resources towards the promotion of science and technology innovations. In order to secure and train superior human resources in the fields of science and technology, and to stimulate their activities in various social situations, it aims at improving support for young researchers, by providing an environment to enable various human resources including woman researchers to reach their full potential.

Strategic Funds for the Promotion of Science and Technology

FY 2007

Program	Department	Program Title	Contents
Creation of Innovation Centers for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research Areas	University-wide Graduate School of Engineering	R&D Center of Excellence for Integrated Microsystems	By integrating machinery, electrics/ electronics, materials, chemistry, electron chemistry, biotechnology, medical science, etc, with its core on an integrative micro-system, the program aims to create an innovative production headquarter for the next century, in addition to establishing a research development system and a new industrial-academic collaboration model for the innovation

FY 2010

Program	Department	Program Title	Contents
Creating Local Activate Human Resources Fostering Institutions	Graduate School of Engineering	Sendai School of Design	The Sendai School of Design was launched by the Department of Architecture and Building Science at Tohoku University in cooperation with the City of Sendai. The main objective of the Sendai School of Design is to nurture collaborative creators and producers as personnel who will help activate the local area.
Asia and Africa S&T Strategic Cooperation Promotion Program International Environment Leaders Training Program	Graduate School of Environmental Studies	Strategic Energy and Resource Management and Sustainable Solutions	This program aims at the development of a center for nurturing international environmental leaders capable of formulating international energy and resources policy and corporate strategy from wide global perspectives. Master's and doctor's students from Asia and Africa, and regional administrative officers are considered as candidates for the program.

Funds for Development of Human Resources in Science and Technology

FY 2009

Program	Department	Program Title	Contents
Innovative Training System for Future Leaders Future Leaders Training Program for New Innovation	University-wide	ILP Innovative Leaders Platform	Having established the ILP Innovative Leaders Platform Center, this program aims to nurture doctoral and post-doctoral students with practical professional skills and interpersonal skills. Furthermore, it aims to instill practical knowhow in students through long-term internship programs at companies both inside and outside Japan, and to foster and produce human resources able to develop innovations from the results of their research.
Innovative Supporting System for Female Scientists Accelerating Innovation of Training System for Female Scientists	University-wide Office for Women Researchers	Tohoku Leading Women's Jump Up Project for 2013	This program aims to raise the skills and position of female scientists, and to foster pioneering female scientists with the broad vision over a wide range of academic fields necessary to become world leaders.

FY 2011

Program	Department	Contents
Program to Disseminate Tenure Tracking System	Graduate School of Medicine Graduate School of Engineering	To provide young researchers with a research environment that enables them to work independently (so that they can acquire experience before getting a stable position), the program supports universities and other education and research institutions that implemented the tenure tracking system with research funds, aiming to disseminate and thereby establish the system widely.

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Global Centers of Excellence Program (Global COE Program)

The "Global Centers of Excellence (COE) Program" was based upon and established by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) with results carried out on assessments and verifications of the FY2002, "21st Century COE Program". The program provides for funding support and for establishing educational and research centers which perform at the apex of global excellence, elevating international competitiveness of universities in Japan. The program is aimed to strengthen and enhance the educational and research functions of graduate schools. It is also to foster highly creative young researchers, those who become world leaders in their respective fields; through experience and practical research in the highest of world standards.

FY 2007

Program Leader	Research Fields	Program Title
Life Sciences Professor Noriko Osumi	Neuroscience	Basic & Translational Research Center for Global Brain Science
Chemistry, Material Sciences Professor Masahiko Yamaguchi	Chemistry	International Center of Research and Education for Molecular Complex Chemistry
Chemistry, Material Sciences Professor Takashi Goto	Materials Science	Materials Integration International Center of Education and Research
Information, Electrical and Electronic Sciences Professor Fumiyuki Adachi	Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Center of Education and Research for Information Electronics Systems
Interdisciplinary, Combined Fields, New Disciplines Professor Takami Yamaguchi	Biomedical Engineering	Global Nano-Biomedical Engineering Education and Research Network Centre
Total: 5 programs

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FY 2008

Program Leader	Research Fields	Program Title
Medicine Professor Yoshitomo Oka	Internal Medicine・ Diabetes and Metabolism	Global COE for Conquest of Signal Transduction Diseases with "Network Medicine"
Mathematics, Physics, and Earth Sciences Professor Kunio Inoue	Physics	Weaving Science Web beyond Particle-Matter Hierarchy
Mathematics, Physics, and Earth Sciences Professor Eiji Ohtani	Earth and Planetary Science	Global Education and Research Center for Earth and Planetary Dynamics
Mechanical, civil engineering, architectural and other fields of engineering Professor Shigenao Maruyama	General Engineering	World Center of Education and Research for Trans-disciplinary Flow Dynamics
Social Sciences Professor Yoshimichi Sato	Sociology	Center for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality
Social Sciences Professor Miyoko Tsujimura	Law and Politics	Gender Equality and Multicultural Conviviality in the Age of Globalization
Interdisciplinary combined fields, new Disciplines Professor Tohru Nakashizuka	Environmental Science	Research and Education for Ecosystem Adaptability
Total: 7 programs

(FY = Fiscal Year / Financial Year)