FY 2013

The 2013 Activity Report data can be downloaded here.

Outline of the event

Gakumachi Collaboration (University Regional Collaboration Creation and Support) Project

Presentation: Saturday, April 6, 2013, 16:40-17:00
Application period: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 – Friday, May 17, 2013
1st screening: Friday, June 7, 2013
Second screening: Saturday, June 29, 2013 *Public presentation
Notification of results: late June to early July 2013
Acknowledgment
Ceremony: Friday, July 12, 2013, 10:00-11:00 a.m. *A certificate will be issued by Kyoto City for the selected projects.
Interim Report: Friday, October 25, 2013
Final Report: Friday, March 7, 2014 (for projects completed in February 2014, for projects completed in March 2014 on a different date) *Submission of documents
Report: Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:30~16:55

Selection Results

1st Screening (Document Screening)

22 projects that passed the first screening

Second Screening (Public Presentation Screening)

Date: Saturday, June 29, 2013, 13:30-18:40
Venue: Campus Plaza Kyoto 2F Hall
Selected (passed the second screening) 17 projects (1 of which was an incentive project)

Supported Projects
Project Name
[Amount of support]
Name of organization
【Name of Affiliated University】
administrative district Business Overview
Keihoku Town Utsu Fureai Learning Mutual
[300,000 yen]
Kyoto Seika University Keihoku Utsu Treasure Search Club
【Kyoto Seika University】
Ukyo Ward The purpose of this project is to revitalize the Uzu area and foster rich learning for students. The Uzu area is blessed with abundant nature and history, but depopulation is progressing. 1)
We will present scenarios for regional revitalization through exchange and learning based on three projects: a survey on the culture, history, and lifestyle of the Uzu region, 2) cooperation for the effective use of abandoned elementary schools, nursery schools, and buildings of former agricultural cooperatives, and 3) proposals for community development, depopulation countermeasures, and regional revitalization.
Designing Stories 2
[300,000 yen]
Kyoto University of Art and Design, Modern Industrial Heritage Art Revitalization Project “Makadori VII.”
[Kyoto University of Art and Design]
Higashiyama District Jizo has a Jizo Bon in Mr./Ms., so why doesn’t Zhong Mr./Ms. have such a thankless festival?
While developing a workshop on making Zhong, he created a life-size Zhong Feng.
It will be enshrined as an official matsuri event at Wakamiya Hachimangu, which is also a pottery shrine, and a festival will be held in November to thank Zhong.
We will establish the order and format of the festival, the participation and interaction of new and old residents, etc., and start work for its implementation in November.
Tanoji District Revitalization Project
[300,000 yen]
Kyoto University of Art and Design, Tanoji District Revitalization Project
[Kyoto University of Art and Design]
Nakagyo-ku Focusing on the town name, which is the successor of the town’s upbringing, we investigate its origin and aspects of life.
We believe that this area, which was originally a town that integrates work and residence, is deeply related to these areas, and we also comprehensively grasp and consider the lifestyle and culture of Jizo, Zhong, Nitan signs, stone monuments, and townhouses that we have investigated so far.
As a report on the results, we will hold several events and workshops to return the charm of the new area to the local residents.
Aim for Kohaku Murasakino Strategy!
[300,000 yen]
Murasaki Kidzu (Bukkyo University)
[Bukkyo University]
Kita-ku This time, the business that we Murasaki Kidzu are applying for is “Aim for Kohaku Murasaki Daisaku !!” This is what it is. Purple Friends (hereinafter referred to as PF), which has become the “Star of Murasakino”, plans to conduct a disaster prevention awareness campaign at facilities and communities using the fourth original song, “Disaster Prevention Counting Song (tentative)”. In addition, we plan to develop “disaster prevention goods for elderly people living alone” based on the voices of PF. This project is expected to raise awareness of disaster prevention among PF and local residents.
Jump out, campus! @深草町家
[300,000 yen]
Non-profit organization Fukakusa-Ryukoku Machiya Community
【Ryukoku University】
Fushimi Ward Ryukoku University’s Fukakusa Machiya Campus will be used as a place for students, citizens, governments, and local organizations to interact with each other, and related organizations and individuals will use the space to carry out projects aimed at inheriting local culture and traditions and revitalizing the region by making the most of their own characteristics.
In addition, the “Student Planning Committee” organized by volunteers from Ryukoku University students who belong to the corporation is responsible for planning and operating the project, and it will work with the local community to identify various regional issues and create projects for the development and revitalization of the region. The proposed projects are “Machiyamyu ~ Jiamu Project” and “Machiya
de Koryu”.
Nishikyogoku Station Plaza created by ward residents and female students
[300,000 yen]
Kyoto Koka Women’s University Environmental Volunteer Circle “Greenkeeper”
【Kyoto Koka Women’s University】
Ukyo Ward There has been a green belt in front of Hankyu Nishikyogoku Station for a long time, and it has been responsible for the preservation of the environment and landscape. However, about five years ago, residents expressed their desire to make more effective use of the area as a place of relaxation for the community, and a project to redevelop the green belt has started this fiscal year. From the viewpoint of environmental consideration and gratitude for nature, this project aims to make effective use of zelkova trees cut down during the redevelopment and to enjoy interaction between the university and the local community through the implementation of the project and the wood products after the implementation.
Sanjo Lively Light Project
[298,000 yen]
Kyoto Institute of Technology Sasaki Urban Development Laboratory
[Kyoto Institute of Technology]
Nakagyo-ku The neighborhood between Horikawa-dori and Shinmachi-dori in Sanjo-dori has the charm of Kyoto, where the old and the new intersect, such as the opening of new stores, while retaining the old townscape. On the other hand, the streets have become loopholes and are not well known. Although the population has increased due to the construction of condominiums, there are no mechanisms to improve the quality of life in the exterior space, and I felt the need to create a mechanism for regional revitalization.
We will continue to collaborate with the university and the community in the neighborhood, develop projects in collaboration with local activities and plastic artists, and create “street specialties”.
Let’s Ono GO
[300,000 yen]
Let’s Ono GO
[Bukkyo University]
Kita-ku In this project, we will mainly work on the following three points.
First of all, we will create a “guidebook” to rediscover the charm of Onogo. In addition, we plan and implement a “music festival” for the purpose of gathering and interacting with diverse people. This is also to disseminate information about Onogo and create opportunities for interaction with other regions. In addition, as a way to create a place where the elderly themselves can play a role, we will hold a “shimenawa making workshop”. Through these projects, we will promote regional revitalization of Onogo and support for the elderly.
Let’s be more transformed! Sanjo Street
[300,000 yen]
Seika Ghost Party
【Kyoto Seika University】
Nakagyo-ku Seika Ghost Club aims to revitalize the Sanjo area through the re-creation of “Setsubun Ghost” (a traditional Kyoto cosplay in which people wear extraordinary costumes only for Setsubun). This year, we will promote the charm of Sanjo throughout the year, such as “Liver Dameshi Sanjo!”, which introduces the history of the area in a fun way, and “Another Shopping Street ~ Shutter Art Street< > Revitalization of the Town through Art, Cosplay, and Music”, which creates the charm of the shopping street from the shutter art drawn by students. In addition, at the annual “Ghost Parade”, there will be a “Ghost Contest” to power up.
Let’s dance Sassa Shimogamo Ondo
[300,000 yen]
Kyoto Seika University Regional Culture Project
【Kyoto Seika University】
Sakyo Ward “Shimogamo Ondo” is a local song that was created around Showa 30 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding of Shimogamo Elementary School. There are two types, A for children and B for adults, and they were actively danced until around the middle of the Showa period, but are now almost forgotten. This year, which marks the 140th anniversary of the founding of Shimogamo Elementary School, the Seika Regional Cultural Project, in collaboration with the Shimogamo Gosho Ondo and Autumn Leaves Festival Preservation Society, will sing and dance for the revival of Shimogamo Ondo at Jizo Bon and sports events in each town to deepen local ties.
Thoughts of “town” connected by Arashi Pato
[300,000 yen]
Ukyo Ward Renewal Conference
[Kyoto University of Foreign Studies]
Ukyo Ward We will develop and disseminate regional brand products centered on “Arashiden Police Train” for the purpose of community development, and create a foundation for social business for community development. A portion of product sales will be donated by stores, and activities to solve local issues will be carried out based on the donation. Carry out activities such as town patrols to ensure the safety of children, whose population is increasing in Ukyo Ward, and to interact with children and the elderly. In this way, we will realize activities to continuously solve local issues by utilizing the power of shops and local residents.
Fukakusa SOSUI Monogatari 2013
[300,000 yen]
The Ryukoku Project Supporting Mirai’s Environment
【Ryukoku University】
Fushimi Ward As a continuing project, this project will use the connections and accumulations from last year to make efforts in consideration of future urban development, and (1) prepare a draft of the irrigation ordinance and (2) create a bird’s-eye view.
Regarding (1), it will be prepared through interviews with residents, WS, visits and surveys to the Fukakusa Branch Office in Fushimi Ward, the Kyoto City Water Supply and Sewerage Bureau, and other areas. With regard to (2), we aim to create a bird’s-eye view that depicts the thoughts and charms of the draft ordinance, and to reconfirm the charm of the town and provide an opportunity for residents to think about the future of the town themselves.
Project to connect Arashiyama and Katsura River with a “raft” 2013
[300,000 yen]
Laboratory of Environmental Design, Kyoto University “Arashiyama Landscape Kirikomi Team”
[Kyoto University]
Ukyo Ward Students and local residents will take the lead in conducting surveys of the mountains and rivers of Arashiyama, determining maintenance policies, cutting down thinned timber and firewood, and transporting thinned timber in imitation of traditional methods using water transportation on the Katsura River. In addition, a raft made of thinned wood is connected to the riverbank, etc., to create a mechanism to enjoy the scenery. Through these activities, we aim to make the local people aware of the current situation of Arashiyama, and to restore the “connection between mountains, rivers, and people” by providing an opportunity for them to think about proactive sustainable forest and river management and how to use the mountains and rivers as tourism resources.
Kyoto Sanjokai Shopping Street Temple and Huts Project
[300,000 yen]
Kyoto Koka Women’s University Koka Sanjo Girls
【Kyoto Koka Women’s University】
Nakagyo-ku The Sanjokai shopping street holds annual events where local residents gather. For example, in July there is the “Tanabata Night Market” and in August there is the “Food Village”.
Kyoto Koka Women’s University has been holding exchanges with local residents, such as “Kouka Children’s Plaza” in the Sanjokai shopping street. This year’s initiative is to hold a pre-event related to the shopping street event as a temple hut project, aiming to revitalize the local community and increase the motivation to participate in the event.
Oh my God! Oharano Attraction Transmission Project
[300,000 yen]
Nanyakanya Oharano
[Kyoto City University of Arts]
Nakagyo-ku The Oharano area of Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto City has the second largest area of farmland in the city, but the aging of farmers and the lack of successors are issues. Therefore, the Nanyakanya Oharano, a group of farmers’ volunteers, is collaborating with Kyoto City University of Arts and Kyoto Prefectural Katsura High School to create a website to convey the charm of the region and to support the “Fukushima Sunflower Foster Care Project” using fallow fields, with the aim of revitalizing the region.
Miyako Light ’13
[100,000 yen]
Miyako Light Executive Committee
[Doshisha University, Kyoto University of Art and Design]
Kamigyo Ward Miyako Light uses lights from the inside of the house to express the “lights of life” that spill through the lattice from inside the townhouse. In addition to the main event of lighting up at night, we will hold an event that takes advantage of the characteristics of each town that will be the venue.
The planning and preparation of each event will be carried out in cooperation with the people of the area around the venue and the Metropolitan Light Executive Committee.
Incentive Programs
Project Name
[Amount of support]
Name of organization
【Name of Affiliated University】
administrative district Business Overview
Arashiyama Dream Project 2013 ~Arashiyama Story as a Souvenir~
[100,000 yen]
Arashiyama Dream Project 2013 ~Arashiyama Story as a Souvenir~【Kyoto Saga University of Arts】 Ukyo Ward Arashiyama, which is bustling as one of Japan’s leading tourist attractions, does not have souvenirs called Arashiyama specialties. Therefore, this time, focusing on the fact that Ogura bean paste and rice crackers, which have been handed down since ancient times, are the birthplace of Arashiyama, we will try to develop a region-limited original brand in collaboration with Arashiyama Shopping Street and other organizations in order to disseminate resources related to Kore Arashiyama both inside and outside Japan. We would like to use this as an opportunity to create a shared property in the region that makes use of local resources by sending a new design wind to Arashiyama through the fresh senses of the students.

Implementation Report

Heisei 25 Public Presentation (2nd Screening)

On Saturday, June 29, 2013, a public presentation of the “Heisei 25 Gakumachi Collaboration Project (University Regional Collaboration Creation and Support Project)” was held at Campus Plaza Kyoto to support efforts aimed at regional revitalization in Kyoto City.
This project has been held every year since the 16th fiscal year, and this year is the 10th time. In addition to the presentations, a total of 115 visitors listened to their presentations in order to get a glimpse of the students’ rich ideas and the ideas of the local community.
This year, there were 33 applications, and 22 organizations that passed the first round of selection made presentations. Of these, several projects were selected as subsidized projects (up to 300,000 yen per project), but all of them were wonderful efforts to revitalize the region.
Kyoto City and the University Consortium Kyoto will continue to support these vibrant efforts of the university and the local community, hoping that they will produce great results!

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Heisei 25 Project Certification Ceremony

Of the 33 projects that applied this year, 16 projects were certified as eligible projects and one project was certified as an incentive project, and a certification ceremony was held at Kyoto City Hall on Friday, July 12, 2013. The Mayor of Kyoto, Kadokawa, presented certificates to the representatives of each project, and the representatives of each organization that received certification as support projects expressed their determination to implement the projects.

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Heisei 25 Certified Business Report Meeting

《Debriefing Session》
The 25th Gakumachi Collaboration Certification Project Report Meeting was held on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at Campus Plaza Kyoto.
On the day of the event, not only students and university officials, city officials, but also the general public attended the event, and 17 selected organizations reported on their activities.
In the process of planning and operating various initiatives in the community, we have faced many challenges, and I believe that the results of the projects will be a great asset for both the students and the community, and will be able to be utilized in future activities.
We hope that such efforts will not be one-off, but will be carried out continuously, creating new businesses, and revitalizing the cycle in each ward of Kyoto City!

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《Opinion Exchange Meeting》
With the aim of sharing the know-how of organizations with a proven track record with other organizations and promoting cooperation and exchange among organizations, we have held opinion exchange meetings with reporting organizations and others since this fiscal year.
At the opinion exchange meeting, the 17 organizations were divided into two groups (9 organizations and 8 organizations) and exchanged opinions twice × 20 minutes each.
The participants were divided into three groups (three groups in the first half× three groups in the second half× two groups, and one in the second half × two groups), and each group was assigned a community development advisor to facilitate an opinion exchange meeting, and each group responded to questions and suggestions from visitors.

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《Award Ceremony》
From this year, we have given awards to business organizations that have achieved excellent results. (Trophies, certificates, and activity incentives)
The best group was Mr./Ms. from Murasakizu (Bukkyo University). Congratulations.

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Inquiries

University Consortium Kyoto Gakumachi Collaboration Project
TEL 075-353-9130 FAX 075-353-9101
〒600-8216
Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Nishitoin-dori, Shiokoji, Shimo-ku, Kyoto, Campus Plaza Kyoto
* Business hours: Tuesday ~ Saturday 9:00 ~ 17:00 (excluding year-end and New Year holidays)

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