On April 2021, 4, Bandai Town, Fukushima Prefecture and Keio University SFC Research Institute signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at realizing "Japanese-style education in Reiwa" in Bandai Town.

 Bandai Town has set the purpose of education as an integrated education for elementary and junior high school students, and has promoted advanced efforts such as grasping the situation of each child and providing full support from the pregnancy period to the child-rearing period.It can be said that these are efforts to anticipate the new course of study and the "individual optimal learning" and "collaborative learning" shown as "Japanese-style school education of Reiwa" by the Central Council for Education based on it.

 In Bandai Town, the ongoing movement of digital transformation (DX) will be greatly introduced into education, opportunities for learning outside of school will be increased, and individual optimization and collaboration will lead the future globally. We aim to create and practice an environment for learning.In order to achieve this, it is essential to take a bird's-eye view of education as a whole from the perspective of the community, and to collaborate with a third-party organization that provides regular advice and evaluation from both aspects of cooperation between elementary and junior high schools and cooperation between homes, schools, and communities. , Concluded a memorandum of understanding with Keio SFC.

 Collaborative cooperation matters include research and development and human resource development related to individual optimal learning and collaborative learning, global and future strategies for education in Bandai Town, and utilization of intellectual, human and physical resources.Bandai Town, which is building an educational system that can handle each child in a unified manner, and Keio SFC, which has been promoting "practical science that leads the future" as a research base that leads advanced research in the 21st century, will collaborate in research and development. By doing so, we will promote the creation and practice of an environment for individual, optimal and collaborative learning that will lead the future widely and globally from Bandai Town.The cooperation period is until March 22024, 3.

Reference: [Bandai Town Board of Education] Bandai Town and Keio University SFC Research Institute will cooperate and cooperate toward the realization of "Japanese-style education in Reiwa".

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