About L-INSIGHT

Overview

About L-INSIGHT

The Program for the Development of Next-Generation Leading Scientists with Global Insight (L-INSIGHT) aims to foster the next generation of leading researchers who envision contributing to a sustainable global society through their research. By collaborating with researchers and experts with extensive international experience, as well as with collaborating institutions domestically and abroad, we have developed programs that foster and expand mindsets and skill sets. Our objective is to disseminate these programs to even more emerging researchers who will lead the next generation.

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Global Insight

“Next-Generation Researchers” According to L-INSIGHT

Society’s demands on the sciences and academic fields are steadily increasing. Next-generation researchers are expected to adopt a global perspective and shape future society through academic endeavors. L-INSIGHT believes that acquiring “Global Insight” is essential for researchers aspiring to such a role over the long term.

“Global Insight” competencies consist of three research activity objectives—“Value Creation,” “Internal and External Coordination,” and “Social Innovation”— and three standpoints—“Self,” “Interpersonal,” and “Social System.” These intersect to create a framework of nine categories. This forms the foundation upon which early-career researchers assess their current status and pursue improvements in their activities with their goals as a researcher in mind.

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GIILP

Early Career Researchers’ Own Stories

L-INSIGHT has developed an online tool, the Global Insight Individual Logic Plan (GIILP), through which researchers envision their long-term goals and the various activities required to achieve them and then evaluate the effectiveness of the different programs they engage in in terms of the nine competencies. Researchers assess how participating in each program has impacted their competency development, their long-term goals, and the formation of their “core circles,” thereby evaluating the program’s effectiveness (effectiveness assessment).

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Core Circle

Milestones

Through the mutual pursuit of growth with peers, internationally active researchers build networks that share advanced knowledge and skills and accumulate research achievements on a global scale. Such networks emerge from sustained, reciprocal collaboration with outstanding researchers from an early career stage. In L-INSIGHT, forming such a “core circle” is considered a milestone for each early-career researcher. We evaluate the process leading up to this goal using GIILP and provide various support programs tailored to facilitate this journey.

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L-INSIGHT Fellows

Insights from Interdisciplinary Communities

Each year, five to ten highly motivated early-career researchers with exceptional originality and aspirations are selected through an internal university application process as L-INSIGHT Fellows. The Fellows form a community spanning diverse academic fields, inspiring and learning from one another on a regular basis. Not only do they strive for self-improvement as future top researchers, but they also actively participate in assessing L-INSIGHT’s effectiveness, playing a role in nurturing the next generation of researchers.

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Offered Programs

Programs Offered to Cultivate Global Insight: Development, Evaluation, and Dissemination

The programs offered by L-INSIGHT range widely, from small-scale workshops with world-leading researchers and opportunities to present at international seminars to funding for travel, bringing researchers to Japan, and article publication. Programs found effective with GIILP are improved while aiming to disseminate them.

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