What is the Research Commons? (3)
The Research Commons project combines the triad data-centric science platform project with four transdisciplinary research projects that started in 2010: earth and environment systems, genetic function systems, social communication, and systems resilience. It also holds three activities for exploring new research topics, stimulating further transdisciplinary integration, and developing human resources.
International Workshop Project
We continue to hold International workshops, where top-level researchers in polar science, informatics, statisticalscience, and genetics, from not only Japan but all over the world are called together to a week-long retreat to freely and frankly brainstorm, and to establish new research methods that will contribute to resolving society’s most difficult issues. In addition to the discussions conducted during the workshops, road maps are formed for data-centric science, and research methodologies are established; the results of these initiatives are published globally, thereby reinforcing the Organization’s position as a hub for cutting-edge international research.
Researcher Exchange Promotion Program
This program provides full-time working researchers in Japanese universities with the opportunity to take a half to one-year sabbatical leave to conduct research. In addition to the global standard research environment for dealing large-scale data, which enable to lead a structure of researchers in each of the four areas (polar science, informatics, statistical science and genetics), who can promote the Research Commons project. By creating an admissions policy in the Organization, the program aims at stimulating the exchange of human resources between universities and the Organization, and create an effective way of further joint-use and collaborative research.
Young Researchers Cross-Talk
Every year, Cross-Talk is held as a part of the Transdisciplinary Research Integration Project. This forum creates and strengthens links between young researchers in various disciplines, who will then facilitate and watch over the integrated research of the next generation. Cross-Talk brings together students, project researchers, and young facultes from seemingly unrelated research fields. By engaging in discussions from perspectives that differ from their usual approach and transcend disciplinary boundaries, participants are encouraged to reevaluate their own research fields and plant “the seeds” for new transdisciplinary research.
