Report of Committee for JAEA Internationalization Initiative; Focusing on the activities of local teams

Committee for JAEA Internationalization Initiative

The Committee for JAEA Internationalization Initiative was established in 2010 with the view to discuss the policy and improvement plans for JAEA's achievement of an international center of excellence (ICOE), which include improving the environment to accept foreign researchers, etc. The existing issues to be solved in the effort for ICOE and recommendations for the solutions, which were discussed in the committee, and challenges in developing human resources with a global mindset were written in the report summarizing the activities conducted in the following two years (December 2012: JAEA-Review 2012-054) and disseminated widely. This report was compiled focusing on the efforts in respective sites made during a period of two years from 2013 to 2014 by the local teams that were set up in accordance with the situation of the R&D centers hosting a number of foreign researchers, etc. based on the above-mentioned recommendations.