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Research Proposal Document for “Scientific Research (BC) (General)” (FY 20XX)
【Project Members List (Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator) 】
If not all the Principal Investigator and/or Co-Investigators have registered their research integrity information on e-Rad, you cannot make application. Researchers with the Status of Research Integrity Pledge (Linked to e-Rad Registration Details) being “Not pledged” need to make registration on e-Rad; therefore, the Principal Investigator must request those who have not registered to do so according to the guidance. * Linkage to e-Rad usually takes about 10 minutes, but it may take longer. Make registration well in advance, because last-minute registration before the application deadline may lead to linkage failure. Click [Add] button if you add Co-Investigator(s) (Co-I(s)). Note: Click [Add] on the left-hand side of the window to insert additional Project Members List fields. Click Delete on the left-hand side of each field to delete unused fields (if any field is not used or no longer required) . Enter the researcher number of the Co-Investigator and click on the [Search] button, his/her information will be displayed, and click [OK] button. Since the Co-Investigator may belong to more than one research institution, please ask the Co-Investigator at first to confirm which affiliation he/she wishes to list for the application. The consent both from Co-Investigator him/herself and his/her research institution should be given on the electronic application system to list him/her on the project members as a Co-Investigator. To make a request for Co-Investigators, check the checkbox at "Request" in the "Status of Consent" row and save it temporarily. The researcher registered in the field is provisionally requested to participate in the research project as a Co-Investigator. Check the checkbox again to confirm that you want to request him/her to participate in the research project. (In addition, please contact him/her that you had made the Co-Investigator request on the system.) Once the consent by each Co- investigator is obtained, the term "Return Back" will be displayed in the Status of Consent column of the Co- Investigator. In case pressing the [Save Temporarily] after checking the checkbox at "Return Back" in the Status of Consent column of the Co-Investigator, the status goes back to the status of "The consent from Co-Investigator has not yet been confirmed" and the Co-Investigator is able to correct the input information such as efforts again. Should the registered contents by the Co-Investigators be corrected, please make sure to check. (And also always inform the Co-Investigator that the "Return Back" has been commanded.) If you want to update the affiliation information of Co-Investigator, click [Search] button of Co-Investigators Researcher Number, confirm the displayed his/her information, and then click [OK] button.Note that the status of consent will be changed into “Request” when you update the affiliation information of Co-Investigator. You have to follow the process of obtaining consent from Co-Investigators once again.Regardless the entry of the consent from the Co-Investigator (including the research institutions to which the Co-Investigator belongs), pressing the [Delete] button enables to delete the frame for the data input. Please take note that you have to follow the same procedure from the beginning, in case you request the identical researcher to become a Co-Investigator again after the [Delete] of the frame above completed. You cannot register the researcher, whose status of consent is "Dissented by the Co-Investigator" or "Dissented by the Institution", as a Co-Investigator to the project members. Press [Delete] button on the left hand side of that column and delete the frame into which the data is being entered. 【When you request the researchers to become a Co-Investigator】 When you request the researchers to become a Co-Investigator, your official request should be based on the high probability in obtaining the consent from the Co-Investigator-to-be after surely confirming the following items with the researchers. ①For this research project, the Co-Investigator has to bear responsibility for the implementation of the research project in cooperation with the Principal Investigator. ②As well as the Co-Investigator understand and comply with both the KAKENHI supplementary conditions (funding conditions) and the terms stipulated in the (a) , (b) and (c) below, and to receive a share of KAKENHI from the Principal Investigator and use it properly. (a)The Co-Investigator has to recognize that citizens have placed trust in scientific research and that KAKENHI are funded with their tax, and you therefore have to use KAKENHI in a proper and efficient way and refrain from committing research misconduct during my research. (b)The Co-Investigator has to fulfil the requirement for the research ethics education coursework either by reading a textbook such as "For the Sound Development of Science - The Attitude of a Conscientious Scientist -" ("For the Sound Development of Science" Editorial Committee on JSPS), by taking an e-Learning course such as the "e-Learning Course on Research Ethics [eL CoRE] or "APRIN e-learning program (eAPRIN)", or by participating in the research ethics education course conducted at his/her institution based on the "Guidelines for Responding to Misconduct in Research" (Adopted August 26, 2014 by the MEXT), prior to the formal application for grant delivery (or, in case the grant has already been delivered, by the time the "application for approval of change for the Co-Investigator" is submitted by the Principal Investigator to JSPS). (c)The Co-Investigator has to understand thoroughly and confirm on what the researchers should consider, in conducting of their researches, from amongst the contents of both the statement “Code of Conduct for Scientists -Revised Version-” by the Science Council of Japan and the booklet “For the Sound Development of Science -The Attitude of a Conscientious Scientist-” by the JSPS, by the time of the formal application for grant delivery of the concerned research project. (Or, by the time when the “application for approval of change of the Co-Investigator” is to be submitted to the JSPS by the Principal Investigator, in case the official grant decision thereof has been already made.)