Recruitment period

Thursday, October 1, 2026, to Thursday, December 17, 2026, until 23:59 JST

* Please note that new applications cannot be accepted after the above deadline.

Important Points Concerning Presentation Content

Please carefully review the following points when preparing your abstract and poster, and obtain final confirmation from your supervisor before applying. If a violation of laws/regulations or research misconduct is identified during document screening, publication of the work may become impossible.

If you made revision or corrections by the Judge instructions during the document reviewing process, your revision will not be printed for the publication of the abstract collection. Your revision will be published in the PDF version released later on the official website.

1. Topics in social sciences, humanities, or other fields that do not include a natural science component are outside the scope of this contest and will not be screened.
2. The idea must be one that has been independently thought up by an individual or group of junior high or high school students (to convey that it is an idea with a dream). If the research or technology idea is to be put into practice, the challenges to be overcome to realize it must be indicated.
3. Solutions to problems for which correct answers already exist are not eligible for review.
4. As of this year, there will be no "Other" option in the subject category, so applicants must select one subject that corresponds to the academic or technical field that they consider to be the most important and worthy of recognition in their research.
5. Depending on the stage of research development, applicants should select one of the following categories for their submission: "Initial Planning Stage," "Preliminary Results," or "Research Results." Research in the "Initial Planning Stage," which consists of ideas for which experimental results cannot be presented, should be submitted as a poster. Furthermore, applicants should conduct some kind of thought experiment to confirm and to demonstrate the validity of the research plan being presented.
6. For applications with "Preliminary Results" or "Research Results," applicants should specifically demonstrate any results they have achieved through their thinking, experiments, etc., including thought experiments and intermediate results. Quantitative data and its interpretation should be attached as supporting documents for review whenever possible.
7. The process and raw data, including the results obtained during the experiment, should be kept in a laboratory notebook to protect against unintended accidents (to protect against suspicions of fabrication or falsification).
8. Existing research results by others, yourself, and your group must be clearly cited. It is inappropriate to describe existing results without citing them, even if they are your own. In other words, the main part of the content of your application should, in principle, be original to "Tsukuba Science Edge 2026." If previously published or already submitted publications are relevant, you must indicate these and then state that the original content of this application is the main part of the presentation. (To prevent suspicion of plagiarism or duplicate submission)
9. Individuals and organizations (universities, research institutes, companies, etc.) that have supported the research should be acknowledged, clearly stating the name and details of their support, which will also serve to guarantee to a certain extent the value of the project and the quality of the results.
10. There are no restrictions for use of generative AI (such as Chat GPT) in your abstract or presentation for existing results or knowledge. However, the development of the argument and the conclusion themselves must be the applicant's own.
11. Comply with the laws and regulations of the country or region in which the experiment is conducted, and take the necessary procedures, especially for biological experiments involving humans or animals.
12. For Japanese delegates only: In Japan, when research involving human subjects is recognized by the researcher or school as medical research, it must be stated that the research has been reviewed by an ethics committee or other such organization. Even if it is determined that review is not necessary, it must be stated that it has been confirmed that the human rights of the subjects will be respected and that the protection of their life, body, and mind from an ethical perspective will be guaranteed*.
    • *) In addition to the consent of research subjects who have received an explanation of the purpose of the research and how the results will be handled, consent from the guardian is also required if the subject is a minor. If personal information is included, the guardian's consent should be obtained in advance, and care must be taken to comply with the Personal Information Protection Act. Care must be taken to ensure proper management of not only data that is made public in presentations, but also data that is held as research data, especially in large-scale questionnaire surveys, even if it is not medical research.
13. For Japanese delegates only: In Japan, regarding animal experiments involving non-human subjects, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Notification No. 71 applies only to technical colleges among secondary and high schools. Therefore, even in the case of research applications from schools other than technical colleges, it is understood that guidance is being given by instructors or school principals in accordance with the intent of this notification, and no special description is required.
14. When engaging in research activities using highly toxic drugs or pathogenic viruses or bacteria, special considerations, warnings, and instruction regarding biosafety must be given to junior high and high school students, who do not normally learn about the risks of such experiments through regular academic instruction.
    Especially in experiments involving anticancer drugs, immunosuppressants, or human cancer-derived cell lines that cannot be denied potential viral infectivity or metastatic potential to humans, students may be asked what kind of safety training they received in advance and what safety protection measures they have taken.
15. In addition to research misconduct such as fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and duplicate submission, if any violation of the laws and regulations of each country or any conduct that disrespects human dignity or the environment is discovered, the submission may be revoked even after the contest has ended and awards have been given.

Guideline for Abstract

[ Abstract Form ]

• The form differs depending on the presentation language. Please make sure to use the same language for the form and the presentation. In the English form, all descriptions except for references should be written in English.
• Please enter your school‘s official name and ensure that the same school name is used consistently in both the participant registration form and the abstract submission form.
• If multiple teams are applying from the same school, please work with the supervising teacher to ensure that the school’s name is entered in a consistent format across all applications.
• In the abstract submission form, enter the school’s name in the red field at the top of the header. Delete the sample text and replace it with your school's official name.
• Please be sure to specify whether your application is "initial planning stage," "preliminary results," or "research results."
• Please prepare a poster for display. Teams that pass the various screening procedures will give an oral presentation while their posters will be displayed at poster floors. Since monitors are available at the Oral, Satellite, and Booth poster presentations, please prepare presentation data such as PowerPoint.
• You can select the field that applies to you from the names of high school subjects in Japan, but depending on your assignment and purpose, such a borderline field or an integrated field is needed. In that case, please refer to the following <Examples of field-based course selection> below and always choose the best fit. Please note that this is a mandatory item for registration, so applications without a field selected will not be reviewed.
• Please note that if the field reflecting the content is not appropriate, the secretariat will change it to the most suitable one.
• The abstract form can be filled in so that the printed output will be up to two A4 pages. If the actual printed output exceeds two A4 pages at the secretariat, only the first two pages will be printed in the abstract collection. You are free to use any font in the form, but please avoid layouts that are too crammed below the set font size. This will make the abstract difficult to read during review and publication. Please also be careful not to overflow the printable page area. These are precautions to ensure that applicants are not put at a disadvantage.
• Please attach explanatory materials such as photographs, charts, etc. that are quantitative as much as possible, and cite them in the abstract. We recommend that these explanatory materials should be in color. When presenting "preliminary results" or "research results", it is necessary to carry the data of your own scientific speculation and experimental output as an explanatory material.
• There is no limit to the number of pages for explanatory materials.
• Please prepare the abstract (up to 2 papers of abstract form + explanatory materials) in Microsoft Word format.
• As a rule, no corrections made after the deadline will be accepted after registration has been completed. Even if you contact the secretariat before the deadline and receive approval, you will be asked to re-upload all the data, including the corrections, all at once. In this case, please note that only the final registration will be subject to review, and the data before the corrections will be discarded.

[ Explanation of field-based subjects selection ]

Physics	engineering technology, manufacturing, materials, construction, robot production, etc.
Chemistry	food chemistry, pollution cleaning (chemical reactions), etc.
Biology	medicine, life sciences, agriculture, sports science, etc.
Geology (Environment) / Disaster Prevention	global environment, disaster prevention, meteorology, astronomy, fossils, etc.
Mathematics/information	data processing, program/application development, robot control, etc.

Note: There is no other entry such as Others, etc.　Social sciences, humanities, etc., which do not include scientific fields, will not be accepted under any course selection.

Submission for Abstract

•  * Please be sure to register for participation before submitting your abstract

• ① Click button below [Registration・Abstract Submission]
• ② Login to "My Page“ with the ID and Password you set in registration
• ③ Click the “Abstract: Submission/Confirm(Edit or Cancel)”button in “My page”
• ④ Submit the abstract (up to 2 papers of abstract form + explanatory materials) both in Word format and PDF format.
  * No files larger than 10.0 MB can be uploaded.

Registration·Abstract Submission

Confirm, Revise and Cancel submission for Abstract

• You can confirm, revise or cancel your abstract submission as many times as you wish up in “My page” until the deadline.
• When you revise your abstract submission, please re-upload both Word format and PDF format.
• We can not accept to make corrections even after deadline