Outline of Projects
The Collaboration Projects are designed to gain a foothold in building up a new, stable economic and social system for the 21st century. To this end, a wealth of inter-disciplinary wisdom is provided by intellectuals at home and abroad research. This will facilitate the formulation of Japan's strategic policies for sustainable development, affluent economy and society under constraints of population decrease and aging.
As for research procedures, a number of research institutes will conduct their own studies and share information on the results of research. With consideration given to joint research under the same theme, a separate theme is assigned to each of the designated research institutes at home and abroad. The main themes are divided into sub-themes as listed below, on which many research institutes conduct joint research.
Theme: "Aging Society"
Issue of Macro- Economy under a Decline in the Working Population
Direction of the Social Security System Including the Pension Plan and the
Medical Care System
Direction of the Labor Market
Theme: "Sustainable Economy and Society"
Approaches to Promoting a Material-Cycle Sustainable Society
Direction of a System for Development of Sustainable Economy and Society
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Background of Collaboration Project
In this Project started in April 2000, efforts have been made to make its collaborative researches more complete by conducting "International Forum," a forum organized to obtain advice from the learned outside individuals and provide a place where collaborative research institutes can exchange opinions among themselves.
At the time when the Project was in a preparatory stage in March of the same year, "Advisory Council" for the Collaboration Projects was convened to discuss the direction of the researches. We also conducted "International Forum" where all the participating research institutes and researchers met together. This was an occasion to provide a place for presenting an interim report by individual research institutes on their researches as well as for discussion on the report. We also conducted "Open Forum," an event for public participation three times. Its purpose was to pose questions to the general public and increase their awareness on the themes of the Project: "Aging Society" and "Sustainable Economy and Society."
In February 2002, we conducted the Forth International Forum of Collaboration Projects where each research institutes made a final report on the outcome of their researches to bring the two-year Project to a conclusion. The Project was brought to an end with this forum. |
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