On February 13, 2013, a “URA Research Strategy Seminar” was held as a part of training for URA members. This time we invited Dr. Hiroshi MIZUBAYASHI, project officer, Department of Promoting Science and Technology System Reform, of the Japan Science and Technology (JST) Agency as a lecturer. He gave us a very informative lecture on how we can enhance our research systems, and showed us directions to the future research support environment followed by a very active Q&A session.