Research Organizations

Research Centers

Nationwide joint-use institutes
The nationwide joint-use institutes could joint research, information exchange on a national scale, and function as a foothold for researchers in related domains from all over the country.
University's inter-department education research institutes (Research)
The university's inter-department education research institutes provide large-scale facilities for joint use, supporting in many ways the educational and research activities and contributing to the increase of efficiency.

Organization for the Support and Development of Strategic Initiatives: It aims to contribute to the world through creation of advanced original knowledge and cultivation of young research talent with outstanding individuality.

Research Unit / Research Group: Research Unit: The University of Tsukuba employs a system of "Research Unit", aiming to help organizing researchers of different fields and function as research center of each research field.
Research Group: "Research Group Registration", a system to register and transmit researchers' information, is implemented to organize and visualize relatively-small research groups.

Global COE Program: Global COE Program will provide funding support for establishing education and research centers that perform at the apex of global excellence to elevate the international competitiveness of the Japanese universities.

Funding Program for World-leading Innovative Research and Development on Science and Technology: The aim of the FIRST Program is to advance the kind of leading-edge research and development that will strengthen Japan's international competitiveness while contributing to society and people's welfare through the application of its results. Program planning and core-researcher/research-project selection was carried out by the Council for Science and Technology Policy in the Cabinet Office. The University of Tsukuba was selected as one of the support organizations of the Funding Program for World-leading Innovative Research and Development on Science and Technology to support two research and development projects; Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai (Center for Cybernics Research, Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering) and Professor Masashi Yanagisawa (Center for Behavioral Molecular Genetics). The university lends all-out support for them so that they can concentrate on their research and demonstrate their abilities to the fullest.