|
 |
| Policy recommendations to the government |
|
SCJ provides policymakers with its specialized and trustworthy views and
advice of scientists. Recommendations issued by SCJ thus far have resulted
in the implementation of various policies that include participation in
Antarctic observation and the establishment of numerous important laboratories.
And today, each of the SCJ’s committees is holding energetic discussions
that lead to the announcement of the “Code of Conduct for Scientists” and
other achievements. SCJ also promptly expresses its opinions on urgent
issues available to the public in the form of the President’s remarks or
comments.
|
|
|
|
Science Cafe (in Tokyo, April 2006) |
Unlike conventional lectures and symposiums, science cafe is a place for
a new type of communication where scientists and ordinary people talk casually
with each other over a cup of coffee. In cooperation with other numerous
organizations like the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation,
SCJ held science cafe across the country from Hokkaido to Okinawa.
|
|
|
 Schedule（Japanese only）
|
|
| Establishment of networks among scientists |
|
SCJ works hand-in-hand with approximately 1,700 cooperative science and
research bodies, as it also consolidates the views of researchers forming
the core of Japan’s scientific community in all aspects of the humanities
and social sciences, and natural sciences. Moreover, SCJ organizes district
conferences by dividing Japan into seven geographical blocs. These conferences
seek to encourage more active collaboration with local scientists, while
also contributing to promotion of academics. SCJ also holds industry-academia-government
summits to promote cooperation among these three sectors.
|
|
|
|
Cooperation with science and research bodies |
|
In accordance with the legal revision in April 2004 that abolished the
system stipulating that members should have to be recommended by academic
research organizations, SCJ ended the conventional registered academic
research organization system. In its place, SCJ established a system of
cooperative science and research bodies in October 2005 through integration
with public-relations cooperative academic bodies, which help the public-relation’s
activities of SCJ. SCJ is now providing information on this move to some
1,700 organizations that were registered academic research organizations
and, as applications come in, designating them as cooperative science and
research bodies. At present, about 1,700 cooperative bodies, including
new associations, are familiarizing themselves with SCJ’s activities, working
to maintain and reinforce close cooperative relationships with other science
and research bodies in all fields, and cooperating with public relations
activities.
|
Cooperative science and research bodies（Japanese only）
|
|
|
|
Activities of district conferences |
Lecture meeting hosted by Chubu District Conference |
SCJ organizes district conferences in seven geographical blocs—Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku/Shikoku, and Kyushu/Okinawa—to foster communication among local scientists and promote the advancement of academics at the local level. These conferences, which are comprised of members and associate members working or living in the relevant regions, formulate project plans for each fiscal year, plan and prepare academic lecture meetings and then take action toward their implementation, and issue district conference news. Roughly twice a year, each district conference establishes academic lecture meetings on themes that are matched to local requirements, and invites members of the general public to participate. Also twice a year, each conference holds “informal discussions with scientists” to familiarize regional scientists with the activities of SCJ and to serve as a place where scientists can hear the views of their colleagues in other regions.
|
|
|
Schedule of lecture meetings hosted by district conferences（Japanese only）
|
|
