History

The Organization of Advanced and Integrated Research (OAIR) of Kobe University was established in April of 2016 by integrating three divisions; Organization of Advanced Science and Technology, Integrated Research Center, and Interfaculty Initiative in the Social Sciences. Since October 2016, this project, Meta-science and Technology Project: Methodology, Ethics and Policy from a Comprehensive Viewpoint, has been mainly collaborated by the faculties of Graduate Schools of Kobe University such as Humanities, Law, Economics, Human Development and Environment and Intercultural Studies. And this project was selected for one of the Topic-Setting Program to advance cutting-edge humanities and social sciences researches of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science by the program of“Advanced and integrated research about social implementation of bio- and environmental technologies―the vision and trial for the participation in 21th century” in 2017.

From an interview of Project Leader
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