Tokai National Higher Education and Research System Equipment Sharing System

Based on the research facilities and equipment which are registered in “the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System Facilities and Equipment Management Database”, out of the research facilities and equipment held by Tokai National Higher Education and Research System, Nagoya University’s Aggregate Sharing Facilities and Technical Center of Nagoya University Equipment Sharing Promotion Office that hold and maintain the registered research facilities and equipment will cooperate and support their searching, use and the calculation of use charges etc.

Commencement year and month

April 2015

Purpose (necessity, predicted users etc.)

This system aims to promote the common use of research facilities and equipment held by Tokai National Higher Education and Research System both inside and outside the University, and to effectively use the facilities.

• Necessity

  Currently, the handling of the sharing of facilities and equipment for each department is being carried out, but the effective utilization of the whole University’s facilities and equipment is stagnant. Further, the burden on the researchers, technical staff who are in charge of maintaining facilities and equipment or administrative work division which executes the procedure has been increasing.
  
  Due to the above, prompt responses are required for the listing of facilities and equipment shareable by the University, the creation of a system for unified use and aiming to simplify the calculation standard of use charges etc.

• Predicted Users etc.
  1. Staff, students and researchers of the University
  2. Those who are engaged in study in the University
  3. Those who belong to educational research organs other than the University and are engaged in study
  4. Other than above, those who are admitted to be appropriate by the head of the Promotion Room

Goals

• The introduction, use reservation and the calculation of use charges etc. relating to each facility and equipment that is being carried out by each department, will be carried out through this sharing system
• Becoming the reception point for various requests to use facilities and equipment from inside and outside the University.
• Cooperating with the financial and accounting system, managing the asset information of the University’s facilities and equipment.

Plans

• From 2013 to 2014

  Establishing a sharing system and management database of facilities and equipment, and receiving for free a reservation system from the cooperative research facilities’ network with the test operation executing universities, and utilizing it for system development

• 2015

  Commencement of real operation inside the University and preparation for the commencement of operation outside the University

• From 2016 until 2017

  Cooperation with other sharing systems

Work operating body

Technical Center of Nagoya University Equipment Sharing Promotion Office

Management system

1 head of the Room (technical expert)
6 Room staff (4 technical experts, 1 technical assistant and 1 administrative work assistant)

History