Our application was accepted for the “Project for Promoting Public Utilization of Advanced Research Infrastructure (the Core Facility Construction Support Program)” by The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2020. The project period is to last for five years (FY 2020-2024).

The project will support efforts to strengthen (by creating a core facility) the system for introducing, updating and sharing equipment and devices that are being managed by each research organization, such as faculties and graduate schools, as research infrastructure for the entire research organization. In fiscal year 2020, there were applications from 34 institutions. Five of these applications were adopted.

The project will be promoted by the Core Station for the Management of Open facility and Skills (CoSMOS), which is composed of the Global Facility Center, Creative Research Institution and the Office for Technical Support.