Saitama Institute of Technology signed a high school-university partnership agreement with Seiwa Gakuen High School in Ogose-cho, Saitama Prefecture.In the future, in cooperation with the Meister High School project, we will support the development of human resources who will be responsible for autonomous driving and DX (digital transformation).
According to Saitama Institute of Technology, Seiwa Gakuen High School is a correspondence high school with a car, cooking, and general course. Selected as a designated school for the high school project (next-generation regional industrial human resource development and innovation project).
In the Meister High School Project, vocational high schools, etc. and the industrial world work together to develop cutting-edge professional human resources who will drive sustainable growth in the region, and by presenting a model of the results, regional characteristics are displayed throughout the country. It started in 2021 with the aim of accelerating the efforts based on it.At Seiwa Gakuen High School, students in the automobile and cooking departments are working on solving problems related to the declining agricultural population due to the aging population, developing new specialty products, and addressing regional issues such as the sixth industrialization.
Saitama Institute of Technology, which is researching and developing autonomous driving technology, has signed an agreement to teach the latest technology of connected cars (vehicles connected to the Internet), which is the mission of the Meister High School project, and trends in the car industry.
The mission is not only related to cars, but also includes regional creation using ICT (information and communication technology) and the latest digital technology, and Saitama Institute of Technology will cooperate in digital human resource development that covers these.
