The University of Tokyo will start a "field study-type policy collaboration program" in which students aim to solve the problems of local governments over a year.Seven prefectures, including Fukui and Tottori prefectures, will cooperate with the aim of developing leaders who will take on social issues through regional revitalization.
According to the University of Tokyo, the students who participated in this program
■ Stay in a specific prefecture or municipality for a certain period of time and interact with local people to discover issues and needs.
■ Consult with the experts and researchers of the University of Tokyo, and proceed with the examination of problem solving by referring to the materials on campus.
■ Presenting the path to problem solving to local governments and local residents
-The content.
Orientation and application acceptance will start in April, and the acceptance result will be notified in June.After a preliminary survey workshop, a field survey will be conducted during the summer vacation.The university will support the participants with travel expenses, stay expenses, activity expenses, etc.
Aomori, Ishikawa, Fukui, Nagano, Mie, Tottori, and Kochi, which are members of the "Hometown Governor's Network that Changes Japan through Independence and Decentralization," will cooperate in this program, as well as Yamanashi and Miyazaki prefectures. Are considering.
A press conference to start the program was held in Tokyo on April 2017, 4, and President Makoto Gonokami explained the purpose of the program, and Issei Nishikawa, the governor of Fukui Prefecture, and others expressed their expectations for the program.
