KAKENHI Grant Writing Seminar

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KAKENHI Grant Writing Seminar

2025.06.13

The Research Development Center will hold seminars on how to write a research proposal as part of its support for Kakenhi application for researchers at our university. In the first series, we will invite a lecturer who has experience as a Kakenhi reviewer and has, and has experience himself. The second series will be held in English. In the third series, URAs who have been involved in revising applications for many competitive funds, including Kakenhi, will explain. Each lecture focuses on general writing techniques based on the content for each Kakenhi category (see the table below). * It will be held remotely using zoom (hybrid only for the second series). * If you want to participate, you need to make a prior registration for each session.

Outline of the seminar

Series 1: [Wakate] for Young Research, [Kiban (A)] for Advanced Students

Format: Online meeting (Zoom)

7/1 (Tue) 11:00-12:00【Wakate (1)】

【Application form】*If you are planning to participate, please register in advance using this application form. Questions

time	substance	lecturer
11:00-11:15	Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research in general	Yuko Sato (URA, Research Development Center)
11:15-11:55	【Wakate (1)】 How to write a proposal, key points with questions and answers	Hiroshi Tsutsumi (School of Life Science and Technology)
11:55-12:00	about administrative procedures, etc.	Research Funding Division and URA, Research Development Center

7/3 (Thu) 16:00-17:00【Young Researchers (2)】

【Application form】*If you are planning to participate, please register in advance using this application form. Questions

time	substance	lecturer
16:00-16:15	Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research in general	Yuko Sato (URA, Research Development Center)
16:15-16:55	【Wakate (2)】 How to write a proposal, key points with questions and answers	Masashi Ogami (School of Computing)
16:55-17:00	about administrative procedures, etc.	Research Funding Division and URA, Research Development Center

7/4 (Fri) 16:00-17:00【Academic Transformation (A)】

【Application form】*If you are planning to participate, please register in advance using this application form. Questions

time	substance	lecturer
16:00-16:10	Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research in general	Yuko Sato (URA, Research Development Center)
16:10-16:50	Kiban (A) How to write a proposal, with questions and answers	Hideki Taguchi (Institute of Integrated Research)
16:50-17:00	about administrative procedures, etc.	Research Funding Division and URA, Research Development Center

Series 2: Kakenhi Seminar for non-Japanese researchers

7/9 (Wed) 14:00-15:30

Format: Hybrid [Face-to-face + online meeting (Zoom)] Place: room 147B, Main building of Ookayama 【Application form】*If you plan to participate, please register in advance from the application form. Questions

time	substance	lecturer
14:00-14:30	TIPs for Kakenhi Applicants	Hideyuki Kato (Research Development Organization URA)
14:30-14:50	Thinking about the Kakenhi system, 10 years in	Dr. Shawn McGlynn (Institute of Future Science)
14:50-15:30	about administrative procedures, etc.	Research Funding Division, URA

Series 3 [Wakate/Kiban (C)]

Thursday, July 24, 17:00-18:20

Format: Online meeting (Zoom) 【Application form】*If you plan to participate, please register in advance from the application form. Questions

time	substance	lecturer
17:00-18:15	【Wakate/Kiban (C)】 How to write a proposal, with questions and answers	Masako Akiyama (URA, Research Development Center)
18:15-18:20	about administrative procedures, etc.	Research Funding Division and URA, Research Development Center