Shiga University signed the first comprehensive cooperation agreement with a private company with the Bank of Kyoto Co., Ltd. on September 2016, 9.The signing ceremony was attended by President Ryuichi Ida and Director Masahiko Sue from Shiga University, and President Nobuhiro Doi and Managing Director Junji Inoguchi from the Bank of Kyoto.
This comprehensive cooperation agreement was signed in June 2017 with Shiga University, which aims to solve various social issues with the launch of Japan's first "Faculty of Data Science" in April 4. The Bank of Kyoto, which has newly established the "Public Affairs and Regional Cooperation Department" and is promoting initiatives for regional revitalization and regional revitalization, will collaborate in a wide range of fields such as the promotion of industry and education to realize regional revitalization. The purpose is to promote social contribution.
Under this agreement, the Bank of Kyoto will utilize networks with local governments and companies to provide information on a wide range of fields such as tourism and transportation for joint research, jointly hold workshops for companies, and use young employees as researchers. They are also considering dispatching them.
In the future, Shiga University and the Bank of Kyoto will collaborate with industry and academia to carry out joint research for regional revitalization and efforts to develop human resources who are familiar with data analysis.
