For examples of activities from 2018 onwards, please visit
the university-community collaboration portal site
”GAKUMACHI STATION.”
Kyoto University
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 education |
Initiatives aimed at discovering and revitalizing local learning resources →Click here for details |
They regularly hold a local learning course called “Nodo Inaka Juku” that both adults and children can participate in. This year, they held the “Dosenbo Museum” in August, where they arranged wildflowers in vessels made from local resources and offered the opportunity to try out playing a grass flute. They are also planning to hold a “Disaster Reduction Forum” in February 2018 to address disaster prevention issues in mountainous and hilly areas. |
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 Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Mental health consultation activities open to the community (counseling and play therapy) →Click here for details |
We provide counseling and play therapy to people who come to us with various worries and symptoms about themselves or their families, and together we explore ways to overcome their problems. These are basically handled by graduate students under the supervision of faculty members. | |
 Internationalization |
Genius Table in Kyoto →Click here for details |
They regularly hold lunchtime social gatherings called Genius Table. The venues for these social gatherings are set up with the cooperation of places where you can experience Kyoto culture, such as temples, shrines, and traditional craft workshops, and meals are prepared in bento boxes, a uniquely Japanese culture. The guests are foreign tourists who are particularly active in their own countries or around the world, and participants are recruited from Kyoto residents and students. |
Kyoto University of Education
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 Environment, energy, scenery, beautification activities |
Environmental conservation activities around Mt. Oiwayama (Fushimi Ward) | Since 2008 (the name LactPren was adopted in 2010), the organization has been carrying out environmental improvement activities such as collecting illegally dumped garbage, building and maintaining a mountaintop observation deck (including cutting down brushwood and maintaining flower beds), improving roads (building new walking paths and installing bamboo fences), improving abandoned bamboo forests, and improving reservoirs. | |
Environment, energy, scenery, beautification activities |
Uncover the potential of bamboo. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter by Taketomokai. | We cut bamboo from the bamboo forests that spread throughout the Fujimori area, where Kyoto University of Education is located, and process it into bamboo lanterns, stilts, bamboo bokkuri, New Year’s pine decorations, and bamboo swings, which we exhibit and set up at local events so that people can try them out. We also plan and run events in collaboration with the Fujimori School District Union Residents’ Association. |
Kyoto Institute of Technology
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 Industry and Tourism |
Appealing the charm of Wazuka Town through the power of graphic design →Click here for details |
Nakano Laboratory is helping to convey visual appeal through design. They have created package designs for local products planned by local women, and a tourism promotion pamphlet introducing the tea industry using the keywords “Wazuka tea, history, and scenery.” Sakata Laboratory is conducting questionnaire surveys and workshops to build a consensus among residents. | |
 others |
Reviewing public facilities after the merger of the three towns →Click here for details |
Students from each lab specialize in and group the 197 facilities by function, and one by one they investigated the facilities. They interviewed the people in charge and analyzed the current situation while considering the characteristics of the facilities. The students’ perspectives have been useful in solving a variety of issues, such as discovering the charms of the town that locals may not notice and proposing cooperation between facilities managed by different departments. | |
 culture |
Liven up Nishiki Market with an art event themed around Jakuchu →Click here for details |
In the Nakano Laboratory, students are drawing tapestries based on Jakuchu’s paintings, creating and installing an installation that spans over 10 meters at the top of the arcade. In the Sakata Laboratory, vacant stores are being renovated into special booths during the period, and original goods (such as hand towels) created by students of the Nakano Laboratory in consultation with each store are being sold. |
Kyoto City University of Arts
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education |
Ink painting experience class at Shimogyo Miyabi Elementary School | The Kyoto City University of Arts Japanese Painting Lab held an experiential learning experience for sixth grade students at Shimogyo Miyabi Elementary School, which opened in April this year in Shimogyo Ward, where the university is relocating, in which they learned to paint ink-wash painting, a style established by Sesshu, one of the most representative cultural figures of the Muromachi period. | |
education |
Casalacca Concert | Volunteer music students perform with elementary school students and the PTA. In addition, since around 2008, students have been independently planning and organizing activities such as introducing musical instruments and conducting experiences to children so that they can become more familiar with music and learn about it in an enjoyable way. | |
education |
Kyoto City Sakaiya Elementary School Residence →Click here for details |
“Since 2011, our graduates and current students have been creating art in vacant classrooms at Kyoto City Sakaitani Elementary School, and interacting with the children and students on a daily basis. In addition, we regularly hold workshops where children can experience art, and exhibitions of works by children and artists. In addition, local cultural circles also participate in the exhibitions, and local collaboration is expanding.” |
Kyoto Prefectural University
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Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Improving the thermal environment in homes and promoting behavioral change through temperature awareness as a measure to reduce heatstroke damage among elderly people in the prefecture →Click here for details |
With the cooperation of residents of private nursing homes in Kyoto Prefecture, we conducted a questionnaire survey on heat and health in the home as part of the Kyoto Prefectural University Community-Based Special Research (ACTR). We also installed sunshades in 10 homes, measured the indoor thermal environment before and after the installation, and conducted interviews. | |
Environment, energy, scenery, beautification activities |
Based in Miyama-cho, Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture, we manufacture wooden structures using local thinning materials, and engage in community exchange and regional development. For more information, click here. |
Miyama Mokko Juku has been carrying out and continuing crafting activities using local thinned wood in Miyama-cho, Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture since 1999. Currently, they are working on creating an outdoor wood education area at the Children’s Square in Ono Ward, which was planned by students in 2013. They are also working to introduce their activities at events outside the area through their crafts. | |
others |
Activities that act as a bridge between the university and the citizens and local community . For more information, click here. |
○ Hosting the Kagora Cafe (a place for interaction between local residents and university students) ○ Participating in and cooperating with events held in the Kitayama area (such as the Kitayama Aoi Festival and Botanical Garden Events) ○ Creating an illustrated map of Kitayama ○ Publishing the Kagora Times (public relations magazine) to disseminate information |
Fukuchiyama Public University
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others |
Regional Cooperation and Exchange Programs →Click here for details |
The facility was renovated in 2016 to open the Kita-re community cooperation and exchange facility. Kita-re is equipped with a cafe space (free space), co-working space (reservation required), office space, workshop space, information dissemination space, and a space for reading books related to the community, and plays a role in promoting cooperation between the university and the local community. | |
others |
North Kinki Regional Cooperation Council →Click here for details |
A think tank consisting of approximately 50 universities and private organizations has been established, and is conducting research and making recommendations on issues facing the Northern Kinki region. | |
education |
Community Collaborative Practical Education Student Project | This is a program that selects projects from among voluntary local activities that make use of the characteristics of the region and are expected to produce results, and provides support and subsidies to these projects.The program targets projects that will expand on what is learned at our university, local activities, and projects that can be carried out in collaboration with local residents and government agencies. |
Ikenobo Junior College
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culture |
Gion Festival sponsored event “Hana Kirakira” →Click here for details |
・Students were given a tour of the Hokokami Byobu (folding screen) to learn about the history and traditions of the Hokomachi area. ・Because the school is in charge of the Torihoko, students participated in the first pulling of the Torihoko, wearing yukata robes. ・Students volunteered to hand out rice dumplings. ・During the two days of Yoiyoiyama and Yoiyama of the Gion Festival (first festival), the school opens its doors to the public, and students and faculty cooperate to invite the public to flower exhibitions, tea ceremonies, and club and hobby club presentations. |
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culture |
Ikebana exhibition at Hankyu Karasuma Station | Every few days, one or two students from our university take turns creating an Ikebana work, which is then exhibited in a special display case inside Hankyu Karasuma Station. |
Otani University, Otani University Junior College
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Environment, energy, scenery, beautification activities |
The entire university participated in the Zero Waste Campaign at the Gion Festival, one of Kyoto’s most traditional festivals. | He participated as a core leader and volunteer in the Gion Festival Zero Waste Operation, working on the overall progress of the event, running the eco-station, and navigating the collection of trash and reusable tableware. |
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others |
Promoting the attractive people, places and things of the Kitaoji area | In addition to broadcasting a weekly radio program (Otani University HAPPY HOUR) that invites guests who are active in the local area, the station also covers local news and posts it on its website. | |
education |
Community collaboration activities “Otani Kids Campus” “Otani University Challenge Study” →Click here for details |
We use on-campus facilities to carry out learning experience activities in social studies, music, science, art, physical education, and nutrition. We decide the age (grade) that can participate each time, and university students consult with each other to set up the activities, such as the educational effect and teaching goals for the target group. We also hold activities outside of campus, and work in local governments that request it as the “Odekaketai.” |
Kyoto University of Medical Science
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 Safety and security (disaster prevention, fire prevention, disaster countermeasures, road safety) |
Survey and research on environmental radiation measurements in Nantan City / Participation in Nantan City comprehensive disaster prevention drills → Click here for details |
Through surveys and research on environmental radiation measurements in the region, students will acquire measurement techniques, and the distribution of radiation and radioactivity in the natural environment will be investigated and used as basic data for Nantan City’s disaster prevention plan. In addition, environmental radiation maps will be created using data obtained from the measurements and exhibited at Nantan City’s comprehensive disaster prevention training and other events, and will be made available to citizens, as well as emergency monitoring training and measurement demonstrations using portable radiation measurement devices. |
Kyoto University of Foreign Studies / Kyoto Junior College of Foreign Studies
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education |
Summer vacation sports class: Interacting with children from nearby elementary schools through sports | “Summer Vacation Sports Classes” are mainly run by student clubs that are related to the athletics association. Students from each club teach elementary school students sports such as “soccer”, “tennis”, “badminton” and “volleyball” over several days and also play games with them, allowing them to experience the fun of sports through sports experiences.” |
Kyoto Gakuen University
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Industry and Tourism |
We exhibited and participated in the Kyoto Vegetable Festival →Click here for details |
With the cooperation of the Specialty Products Association, we offered tastings and sales of local Kyoto vegetables. In addition, the cafeteria “Yu-ai” at the Kyoto Kameoka Campus sold venison cutlet curry and fried chicken cups, which were well received by many visitors. |
Kyoto Kacho University/Kyoto Kacho Junior College
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education |
Long-term exchange projects between children and students | Mainly during summer, winter and spring vacations, we visit the Yoshizu and Yoro districts of Miyazu City and enjoy activities with children, such as making human puzzles, making soap bubbles and making New Year’s pine decorations. When making New Year’s pine decorations, students create and present picture stories about “why we decorate New Year’s pine decorations” and “the meaning of New Year’s cuisine.” After the exchange, we send each child a letter and a photo to connect with them for the next exchange. | |
others |
Community revitalization student project |
In cooperation with the Jodo sect’s social welfare promotion activities, we participate in a report and exchange meeting on the social collaboration activities of the sect’s schools. In order to participate in this report meeting, representatives of the project’s member organizations gather and exchange various opinions, which is a great opportunity to understand each other’s activities and reconsider the university’s social contribution activities. In addition, we started publishing “Network News” in 2015. |
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Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Initiatives to utilize student learning in the community | For the past few years, first and second year students from the Nursing Care Department at Kacho Junior College have been working with faculty members to carry out various community collaboration activities during seminar time, etc. 1. Kacho Salon: Using vacant stores in the Furukawacho shopping arcade near the university, students communicate with local residents and practice hand massages. 2. Furukawacho Shopping Arcade Gate Sweeping Squad: Students take turns cleaning the arcade regularly. 3. Participation in Higashiyama Ward Community Square: Setting up a booth at the Nursing Care Department and practicing tactile care, etc. |
Kyoto University of Nursing
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Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Kyoto University of Nursing and Nursing Wisdom Collaborative Development Center “Kyoto City Nursing Skills Improvement and Retention Training Program” |
The training program, which is a collaborative effort between our university and Kyoto City, is held in an omnibus format. In addition to improving the nursing skills of medical personnel in Kyoto City and the prefecture, the program is designed to provide a place for community-based learning where the university and the local community can come together and absorb practical learning. |
Kyoto Koka Women’s University/Kyoto Koka Women’s University Junior College Department
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Environment, energy, scenery, beautification activities |
Venison Operation : Delicious Activities Connecting with the Community |
They hold study sessions once a month to deepen their understanding of environmental issues, and develop and test recipes for dishes using venison. They also provide venison dishes at tastings and local events to inform the general public of the reality of the damage caused by deer and the reasons for eating venison, and to let them know how delicious venison is and how it can be used. | |
others |
Kyoto Sanjo-kai Shopping Street Terakoya Project | Based in a rented space in the Kyoto Sanjo-kai shopping arcade, they plan and hold events to enliven the arcade and seasonal events. They hold events such as Halloween costumes and Christmas wreath making, which are popular every year, and study sessions, and they work to create a place for children to play and learn, and a place for local residents to interact and form a community. | |
Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Learn about and support the elderly and people with disabilities in terms of food! | In addition to learning about the current state of support for elderly and disabled people in facilities in Ukyo Ward regarding food, the program is also working to develop and provide Japanese sweets that are easy for elderly and disabled people to eat. |
Saga Art University/Saga Art Junior College
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culture |
Saganominoichi – Saga Flea Market – →Click here for details |
A flea market event held at a university |
Kyoto Sangyo University
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Safety and security (disaster prevention, fire prevention, disaster countermeasures, road safety) |
Student Community Safety Promotion Team “Sagittarius Team” | The university has also worked on creating a “Kita Ward Safety Map” showing dangerous areas around the university, and watching over the children of Kyoto City’s Hiragino Elementary School as they walked home. In addition, the university has worked with elementary schools and police stations to hold crime prevention classes and drug abuse prevention events, and is engaged in awareness-raising activities for expired automobile liability insurance and bicycle theft prevention, as well as on-campus crime prevention, road safety, and drug abuse prevention awareness-raising activities. | |
Industry and Tourism |
Kyoto Higashiyama Tourism Hospitality Team →Click here for details |
The organization is working to promote universal tourism by creating a “Higashiyama Wheelchair Tourist Walking Map,” developing food allergy-friendly menus, creating restaurant introduction booklets so that people with allergies can enjoy their meals without worry, holding tours that can be enjoyed by people with visual impairments, and creating a “sign language notebook for use in restaurants” to entertain people with hearing impairments. | |
Industry and Tourism |
Kyoto Sangyo University Ide Support Team →Click here for details |
Since the town and the university signed a partnership agreement, they have been involved in various initiatives, such as holding an autumn event to revitalize the local area and cleaning up the town. In 2016, they renovated a vacant house in the town and established “Musubi-ya ide” as a base of operations for the Ide Support Squad students. They also hold Terakoya activities to provide study guidance to local elementary school students, and summer vacation parent-child science classes taught by professors from Kyoto Sangyo University. |
Kyoto Women’s University
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Environment, energy, scenery, beautification activities |
Vacant House Project (Vacant House Watch Volunteer) →Click here for details |
On behalf of vacant house owners who find it difficult to inspect their own homes, the students regularly carry out simple inspections of the buildings (such as checking for stains caused by leaks and checking for rust by running water through them) and ventilate the buildings (opening all windows and closets to ventilate and air out the air). | |
Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Higashiyama Ward’s “food”-based local network revitalization project →Click here for details |
She holds “Parent-Child Cooking Classes” for parents and children living in Higashiyama Ward, and “Healthy Longevity Cooking Classes” for the elderly. In addition to creating menus, providing nutritional advice, and disseminating health information, she also serves as a coordinator for multigenerational exchange, and supports the entire community in addressing the issues of child-rearing and nursing care prevention in an aging society with a declining birthrate. | |
Environment, energy, scenery, beautification activities |
Gion-Shinbashi Landscape Preservation Activities →Click here for details |
Faculty and students from our university participate in the activities of the Gion-Shinbashi Landscape Creation Council. Specifically, they participate in regular meetings and local events led by staff in charge of coordinating regional cooperation. In June 2017, we jointly conducted a campaign for landscape conservation. |
Kyoto Seika University
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culture |
Keihoku Utsu Learning and Communication →Click here for details |
In addition to conducting interviews and surveys on the local Kitayama cedar industry and the natural environment of the Utsu region, the project will hold traditional cooking classes, a traditional rice cake pounding competition, and workshops on traditional food and local woodworking. Other plans include archiving materials from a closed elementary school and creating a map of the area. | |
Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Housing complex renovation project →Click here for details |
The project, a collaboration with the Kyoto City Housing Corporation, is a practical, empirical class program in which architecture students develop concepts and design the implementation of renovations for several vacant homes in the Nikenchaya housing complex in Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City. After the work is completed, the students themselves live in the renovated homes and evaluate the renovations. |
Kyoto Seibo Jogakuin Junior College
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education |
Our Lady Children’s Festival 2018 →Click here for details | Local children are invited to participate, and musical plays and games are held, and booths offering hands-on craft experiences are also planned. A graduation works exhibition is also held at the same time, providing an opportunity for people to see the work of our students. |
Kyoto University of Art and Design
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others |
Maka-Tori – Modern Industrial Heritage Art Regeneration Project – |
We have discovered historical resources such as ceramic dolls and hell paintings, and have revived them through the power of art. In addition, through events and fieldwork, we aim to develop new tourism resources and revive the area, creating new industries using the town’s unique resources and giving back to the town. We create and distribute booklets such as “How to Love Your Town” as annual activity reports. |
Kyoto Tachibana University
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Industry and Tourism |
An activity in which Yamashina town development groups work together to revitalize the area – Yamashina Station Totoro – →Click here for details |
Using pottery produced in the Kyoto Yamashina Kiyomizu-yaki Complex, water, cut glass, and candles are placed in the pottery (called a totouki) in that order. The candles are then lit and lined up like a path, creating a soothing and fantastical space. | |
Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Initiatives aimed at revitalizing the housing complex →Click here for details |
The complex holds a variety of events, including muscle and brain training events, health consultations for local residents, social gatherings where international students living in shared rooms introduce their home countries and regions, and a Respect for the Aged Day party where students perform quizzes, skits and tea ceremony for elderly residents of the complex. The complex also participates in children’s groups and disaster prevention events. | |
Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Tachibana Healthy Club | Currently, we are developing our base on campus, so we mainly conduct outreach activities off campus. As the “Mobile Tachibana Healthy Club,” we regularly hold activities in two free spaces in Yamashina ward. We conduct physical measurements, bone density measurements, vascular age measurements, brain age measurements, and other measurements, as well as health consultations, in order to understand the needs of local residents and publicize our activities. |
Kyoto Notre Dame University
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education |
Notre Dame Play Project “Let’s play with nature!” -Nature experience and creative activity program for parents and children- →Click here for details |
Twice a year, in spring and autumn, the program takes place in the forests of Kyoto Imperial Palace and on the university campus, and includes nature observation of plants and animals, modeling and games using natural objects such as fallen leaves and acorns, observation under a microscope, and hands-on crafts and experiments that allow participants to experience natural science. The program is enjoyable for adults as well as children, and students plan and prepare the program and support participants on the day. |
Kyoto University of Art and Design
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Industry and Tourism |
Cafe tableware development project →Click here for details |
A project to develop tableware for a new cafe opening in the Kikuhama area near Higashiyama Campus was realized. Based on the concept of “tableware that utilizes traditional crafts and allows you to feel the four seasons of the Kikuhama area,” the students split into four groups and developed tableware for spring, summer, autumn, and winter. After six months of trial and error, they completed tableware that incorporates the beauty of each season. |
Kyoto Bunkyo University
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others |
This is a voluntary initiative by students who are rooted in the local community, learning from the local community, and aiming to solve local problems . Click here for details. |
In fiscal 2017, three projects (three ongoing) based in Uji were selected, and efforts are being made in collaboration with local governments, shopping districts, NPOs, and others on themes such as revitalizing shopping districts, promoting the appeal of Uji tea, and promoting tourism in Uji through new content. | |
education |
MJ Study Group: Study support for elementary school students in Mukojima New Town, Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City | This program began in April 2014. In cooperation with the Child Welfare Committee, we are working on creating a place for children to hang out after school once a week. University students mainly provide study support to children, helping them to do their homework on their own. After that, we have time to play with the children and encourage interaction. | |
education |
Project subjects to meet the local community, learn from the local community, and solve local issues (local community) →Click here for details |
Approximately 10 classes a year work with local governments and companies and organizations based in the community to solve local issues. Specific examples include a class that collaborates with elementary school students to research local issues, compiles newspaper articles, and proposes solutions to NPOs, etc., and a class that collaborates with local welfare officers to propose what the local community and students can do in the event of a disaster. |
Kyoto Bunkyo Junior College
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Environment, energy, scenery, beautification activities |
Creating and promoting zero waste recipes →Click here for details |
As a joint research project with the Waste Reduction Promotion Division of the Uji City Department of Civil Environment, students from the Department of Food and Nutrition were divided into groups within their specialized subjects as part of a project-based learning class on the theme of reducing waste and eliminating waste, and came up with 30 different recipes. They created a collection of zero-waste recipes, which they posted on the city’s website and in the city government newsletter, and are holding cooking classes for elementary school students in the city. | |
Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Kyoto Bunkyo University and Kyoto Bunkyo Junior College Childcare Support Center “Bunkyo Niko Niko Room” →Click here for details |
It is run in collaboration with the local NPO “Makishima Kizuna no Kai,” which was commissioned by Uji City to run the Regional Childcare Support Center Plaza Project. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays are in charge of “Makishima Kizuna no Kai,” while Wednesdays are in charge of the junior college. It is open to a wide range of citizens, mainly from the local area, as a “place” for parents and children. It is a place where students studying early childhood education can interact and meet based on the results of their daily studies, and where faculty and staff can conduct research and practice. |
Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
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education |
Yamashina Science Experiment Course →Click here for details |
The experiment content is planned by faculty members at the University’s Student Training Support Center, and the local citizens’ organization, the Yamashina Ward “Hagukumi” Network Executive Committee, participates as a volunteer. The subjects are familiar science found in daily life, and by using the advanced equipment of the university’s laboratory, students can experience the atmosphere of being a scientist, and they can take home experimental materials so that they can conduct experiments at home. |
Shuchiin University
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Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Participating in senior citizen and child-rearing salons | Participate in the Senior Citizen Salon and Parenting Salon run by the school district social welfare council. At the Senior Citizen Salon, help with serving food and recreation, and chat over tea. At the Parenting Salon, help with craft activities and hand games, and interact with participants (parents and children). |
Doshisha University
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culture |
Kanbaikan Summer Festival →Click here for details |
At the Kanbaikan Summer Festival, the halls, atrium, and reading space of the Imadegawa Campus Kanbaikan are opened to the public, and a variety of events are held by university students, including a tea ceremony experience for elementary school students, music performances, and model train runs. |
Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
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education |
Department of Contemporary Child Studies Student Project “Kodopa” | First-year to third-year students of the Department of Contemporary Child Studies will spend about a year planning and managing the project, from recruitment to implementation, in cooperation with the Kyotanabe City Board of Education and each elementary school in Kyotanabe City. 2016 results: Building a giant three-dimensional maze, experiencing Cups, etc. |
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Health, Welfare and Wellness |
“Kyotanabe City Childcare Support Book” →Click here for details |
The booklet was compiled in collaboration with the Childrearing Support Division of the Health and Welfare Department of Kyotanabe City, Kyoto Prefecture, after surveying the opinions of various people, including residents raising children and childrearing support NPOs, regarding information on childrearing in Kyotanabe City, Kyoto Prefecture, from the fetal stage to infancy. The booklet is distributed to residents through the websites of Kyotanabe City and universities. | |
Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Department of Social Systems Studies “Wonderful Aging Project” →Click here for details |
In cooperation with Kyoto City and Kyotanabe City, we are carrying out prevention and support by holding awareness-raising activities to promote psychological health in old age and health classes for the elderly and their families. |
Hanazono University
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Industry and Tourism |
The president is creating and selling healthy herbal sweets using produce from Keihoku-cho, Ukyo Ward . Click here for details. |
Using Japanese pepper and Kuromoji from Keihoku as ingredients for the president’s sweets, he created “healthy herb sweets” such as Japanese pepper mitarashi dango, Kuromoji pudding, and Kuromoji cheesecake, which he sold at the campus cafe. He promoted ingredients from Keihoku and made efforts to raise interest in Keihoku town and forestry. | |
Health, Welfare and Wellness |
University student childcare support project “Call at Ukyo” (University students connect parents, children, and children) →Click here for details |
University students produce child-rearing workshops. Specifically, after parents and children come to the event, they are first asked to leave the parents and children and then a workshop called “scrapbooking” is held to encourage interaction between parents and children, and a workshop called “mixed-age play” is held to encourage interaction between children. The parent-child workshop then aims to encourage interest in the area through sweets from Ukyo Ward and to deepen the bond between parents and children. |
Bukkyo University
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Safety and security (disaster prevention, fire prevention, disaster countermeasures, road safety) |
Student club activities to consider regional disaster prevention →Click here for details |
In order to prevent disasters in the area around the campus, we work with the local Rakushi Fire Brigade to patrol the area twice a month on Kyoto City Fire Prevention Days, calling for people to be “safe from fires.” We also hold monthly club meetings to discuss and exchange ideas on activity plans with not only students and university officials, but also with administrative staff and local residents. | |
Health, Welfare and Wellness |
Let’s go to Murasakino ~ Liven up the community together with elderly people living alone! | Students and Purple Friends write songs and music together, release CDs, and perform at the Murasakino Festival and in other areas. They also run a cafe called “Cafe Murasakino” where anyone can gather, creating a place where people can gather casually. They won the Grand Prize in the “Gakumachi Collaboration Project (2014)”. | |
education |
Picture Book Plaza – Enjoy picture books with your children | “Picture Book Square – Let’s enjoy picture books together as parents and children” is an event held on the first Wednesday of every month at our university’s Nijo campus, where former nursery school teachers and students read picture books to infants and young children and their parents living around Nijo Station. |
Heian Jogakuin University/Heian Jogakuin University Junior College
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Industry and Tourism |
Regional collaboration activities with the Kyoto City Transportation Bureau – Focusing on the creation of “Kyun Kyun KYOTO”, a FP introducing the areas around subway stations | In March 2015, the school signed an agreement with the Kyoto City Transportation Bureau to work together on activities related to promoting subway use and revitalizing the local area. The school creates a free paper called “Kyun Kyun KYOTO” that introduces the sights and shops around each subway station from the students’ perspective. First and second year students conducted interviews and wrote articles in the Generic Skills class, and the 16th issue was published in November 2017. | |
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Comprehensive partnership agreement with Kyoto Central Market | As part of the “Kyoto Japanese Cuisine and Sweets” class, activities include a field trip to Kyoto Central Market to see parsley, and planning an event to promote healthy eating habits called “Let’s Play! Let’s Learn! Let’s Taste! Kyoto’s Food Education Wonderland.” |
Ritsumeikan University
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Service Learning Center regular course “Citizenship Studies I” | (1) Project to Plan “Satoyama Experience Program” We will plan a program to encourage young people living in the town to think about their way of life by taking the charms and challenges felt through the nature around Kitayama, which is a characteristic of Kita Ward, and the lifestyle of the people living there from a young person’s perspective and conveying them to young people of the same age (mainly in their 20s). (2) Jidai Matsuri Support Project In cooperation with Heian Kosha No. 8, one of the civic organizations that carry the Jidai Matsuri, we will help with costume preparation and practice management for musical instrument performances and marching in formation, and we will also promote the Jidai Matsuri from a student perspective at various universities in the city, spreading the appeal of the festival to students. (3) Youth Town Development Staff “Team Machista” Project Kyoto City Youth Service Association, a Public Interest Incorporated Foundation In cooperation with the Kyoto City Shimogyo Youth Activity Center, we will participate in town development activities such as conducting surveys of shopping streets in the Shimogyo area and holding local events. |
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Industry and Tourism |
Faculty of Industrial and Social Sciences Keihoku Project | (1) Food Home Owner P: Holding the “Keihoku Marche @ Kinugasa”, promoting “local production for local consumption and food education” in collaboration with Ritsumeikan University and the Ritsumeikan University Co-op, and supporting agricultural production. (2) Japanese Sake P: Producing and selling sake 100% produced in Keihoku in collaboration with Haneda Sake Brewery, building a partnership between agriculture, commerce, and industry. (3) Make Keihoku the Home of Natto P: Planning and commercializing “Ritsumame Natto” (2011) and “Natto Mochi” (2015), building a partnership between agriculture, commerce, and industry. |
Ryukoku University and Ryukoku University Junior College
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“Kyoto Machiya Study Group” is a learning support project for children in the Fukakusa area. Click here for details. | Students majoring in education regularly (every Tuesday) provide study support to third-year junior high school students aiming to go on to high school at the Fukakusa Machiya Campus. They do not only provide study support, but also support personal growth through social events such as cooking together. | |
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Regional debut program “Machiya de Udon” →Click here for details | Local residents (from children to the elderly) and our students (including international students) interact through making udon noodles at our university’s community exchange hub, the Fukakusa Machiya Campus. For students, it is a motivating factor for community cooperation activities, and for local residents, it is a place for multigenerational and international exchange. | |
Industry and Tourism |
Regional revitalization through sports and traditional industries →Click here for details | In cooperation with the Kyoto Rosary Manufacturing and Sales Business Cooperative, we make Kyoto Rosary bracelets with local children. We sell them at the Kyoto Marathon venue and have runners wear them while running, promoting Kyoto’s traditional industries. We also use the sales to fund the Great East Japan Earthquake reconstruction support activities carried out by seminar students. |
Kyoto University of Graduate Studies
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Aquarium and Museum “Draw and take a picture! Drawing workshop” →For more information, click here | Children who visited the Kyoto City Aquarium drew pictures of fish, which were then projected onto a wall in original frames made by students, and commemorative photographs were taken. In addition, a large-scale art piece was created using cultural assets on display at the Kyoto National Museum, using pictures submitted in advance by children from all over Japan. |
