The Cabinet Office's fiscal year 2023 program will support universities that play a central role in their regions to demonstrate their strengths with their unique visions and promote activities that contribute to local communities, as well as increase investment from the region and diversify their financial resources. Ten universities, including Osaka Public University and Nagasaki University, were selected for the regional core university innovation creation environment enhancement project. Of the 10 schools, nine are national and public universities, but Ritsumeikan University is the only private university selected.
According to the Cabinet Office, the selected schools are Nagasaki University, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Yamagata University, Kagawa University, Kagoshima University, Chiba University, and Nagaoka University of Technology (public universities), Osaka Public University, Hyogo Prefectural University (public universities), and Ritsumeikan (private universities). A total of 10 universities.The amount of support will be 2 million yen each for Osaka Public University, Nagasaki University, and the University of Hyogo, 1.5 million yen each for Kyushu Institute of Technology and Yamagata University, and 5 million yen each for the remaining five universities, including Ritsumeikan University.
Selected universities will receive a grant that can be used freely for two years as an award, and only those universities that have made particularly significant progress will be given the opportunity to receive an award in the third year.
Among these, Osaka Public University has established five co-creation research units in smart cities, smart energy, smart agriculture, future medicine, and children's future society as an industry-academia-public-private collaboration project, supporting startup companies and building a diverse range of co-creation partners. proceeding.
Nagasaki University is leveraging the comprehensive knowledge it has cultivated through marine research to build a system to promote blue economy innovation that takes advantage of Nagasaki Prefecture's marine resource environment through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Ritsumeikan University aims for the university to become the core of the region, connecting people and resources to continue regional innovation and solving social issues, and utilizes the campus as a place for demonstration experiments and works to develop human resources for regional innovation.
Ritsumeikan University is promoting local sports and promoting multi-generational sports through the ``Biwako-Kusatsu Well-being Consortium'' in the 2023 ``Support Project for Creating Regional Promotion Models Utilizing University Sports Resources'', a project commissioned by the Japan Sports Agency through the University Sports Association. A project to create a healthy community where people can interact has also been selected.
