Government To Help Young Researchers

The government plans to support young researchers who hope to study abroad by covering their travel and accommodation expenses, government sources said.

Under a five-year program, 15,000 to 30,000 young researchers and graduate students will attend universities and research institutes overseas for several months to one year.

To fund the program, the government plans to incorporate 30 billion yen into a supplementary budget for fiscal 2009.

While studying abroad in unfamiliar surroundings is usually a valuable and galvanizing experience for young researchers, there is a strong tendency for them to stay in the nation as there is no guarantee that they can obtain stable employment after returning to Japan, and the comfortable research environments here offer a powerful inducement for them to stay put.

The number of researchers staying abroad for more than one month has been on the decline after peaking at 7,674 in fiscal 2000.


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