The Tohoku Women’s Hurdling Project provides support and reforms systems to help women researchers balance their research and their life, and manage newborn children, parenting and elderly care responsibilities. In order to enable them to secure time to concentrate on research, we accept requests to dispatch supporting staff as well as their applications for baby-sitter subsidies. We are also extending their tenure as they work shorter hours or take maternity leave, and reforming performance evaluation systems, allowing women researchers to use available systems without stress so as to improve the environment for them to demonstrate their abilities to the fullest extent.

 

 

We accept applications for the Supporting Staff System and the Baby-Sitter Subsidy System in March every year.

 

 

Only university employees and students may use this support system. Eligible applicants who wish to use the system should follow the procedures specified by Tohoku University.

The Hoshinoko Room, which is located within Tohoku University Hospital, is available to all employees and students of Tohoku University. The room specializes in taking care of children who cannot go to their regular daycare center due to illness. If you wish to use the service, you must first call the room to check availability. You must also take your child to your family doctor before you use the service. Or, you may seek medical advice from a pediatrician at our university hospital from the hours 9:00 to 17:00.

(Please call ahead if you intend to use.)

Reservation/Contact:022-717-7819

 

・Eligible children: children who are recovering from illness and are aged six months or older but younger than the third grade in primary school (A letter from your family doctor is required.)

・Place: 5th floor, Outpatient Building, Tohoku University Hospital

・Hours: Monday through Friday, 7:30–18:00 (excluding summer vacations and the year-end/New Year holidays)

・Usage fee (including lunch and snacks)

Under 2 hours: 1,000 yen

2-4 hours: 2,000 yen

4 hours or longer: 3,000 yen

・Staff: 2 clinical nurses, and 2 children’s nurses

 

 

Capacity:25 children Business days: Monday through Saturday (excluding public holidays and the

year-end/ New Year holidays)

Business hours Regular daycare: general daycare 8:00–19:00; extended daycare 19:00–20:00 (excluding Saturdays) Temporary daycare: 8:30–17:30 Eligible children Regular daycare: Infants/children of Tohoku University faculty members and employees who require a childcare service

 

(This service is limited to infants aged 2 months and older, and pre-school children.) Faculty members and employees who have a family member to take care of a child cannot use this daycare service.

Temporary daycare: Infants/children of Tohoku University employees who have immediate and temporary need for a daycare service, for example, due to hospitalization or participation in study group meetings, are accepted as much as possible, by appointment only. (This service is limited to infants aged 5 months and older, and pre-school children.)

Application/Contact: General Affairs Unit, General Affairs Section, General Affairs Department (extension 4807)

 

Capacity: 25 children

Business days: everyday excluding the year-end/New Year holidays

Business hours

Regular daycare: basic daycare: 7:30–18:30; extended daycare: 18:30–20:30 (excluding Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays)

Overnight care: 18:30–7:30 of the following day (This service is available twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.)

Temporary daycare: 8:00~17:30

Eligible children

Regular daycare:

Infants/children of employees and graduate students of Tohoku University’s graduate schools and research institutes located in the Seiryo area (i.e., School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, and university hospitals) (hereinafter, “Seiryo area employees, etc.”), who require a daycare service. (This service is limited to infants aged 2 months and older, and pre-school children.) Seiryo area employees, etc. who have a family member to take care of a child cannot use this daycare service.

 

Overnight care:

In principle, infants/children of Seiryo area employees, etc. registered for the basic daycare service are accepted as much as possible, by appointment only, when the Seiryo area employees, etc. must work at night or have an immediate need for an overnight care service. As for Seiryo area employees, etc. not registered for the basic daycare service, their infants will be accepted, subject to availability and by appointment only, when they are requested to work at night at short notice or have an immediate need for an overnight care service.

 

Temporary daycare:

Infants/children of Seiryo area employees, etc. who usually take care of their infants/children at home or leave them at other daycare centers will be accepted as much as possible, by appointment only, when the Seiryo area employees, etc. have an immediate and temporary need for daycare service.

 

Application/Contact:

Assistant Section Manager, Hospital General Affairs Section (extension 7004).