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• Kyoto City Campus Cultural Partners Program
• What you can do with KYO-DENT
• Development (student project members)

Kyoto students themselves have developed an app for students to live a fulfilling student life in Kyoto!
I want to change myself and find something new during my student life in Kyoto. I want to know a world that I don’t know …….
KYO-DENT is an app for students in Kyoto.

▶ Click here for the “KYO-DENT” flyer

Download it here!

You can use the Kyoto City Campus Cultural Partners System!

◆Kyoto City has established the “Kyoto City Campus Cultural Partners System” since the 22nd academic year in order to deepen students’ understanding of culture and the arts and enrich their student life by providing them with an environment where they can become familiar with culture and art, and by providing opportunities to build points of contact with the local community through participation in cultural and artistic activities.

◆ By presenting your in-app membership card and student ID, you can enter Nijo Castle, Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, and Kyoto City Zoo for 100 yen.

◆Click here for details on the Kyoto City Campus Cultural Partners System and target facilities.

What you can do with KYO-DENT

◆ News
Kyoto City, University Consortium Kyoto, local companies, etc., deliver news for students that will lead to the enrichment of learning!

◆ Event Calendar
Distributing event information for students unique to Kyoto in calendar format!

◆ Deals
Information on stores and facilities that offer student discounts and other services for students is distributed on the map and by category!

◆ Map function
Introducing spots that are a good place for students. Transfer information is also available.

◆ Points
You can earn KYO-GAKU points by using the app, such as reading articles.
Accumulated KYO-GAKU points can be exchanged for points (G points) that can be exchanged for electronic money of your choice!
* KYO-GAKU points: 100 points equivalent to 1 yen can be used and exchanged.

Redeem G Points to: https://www.gpoint.co.jp/pen/

◆ Kyo Mebae
As you log in to the app and use the app, the “sprouts” of Kyoto vegetables will grow, and you will earn points in the app by harvesting Kyoto vegetables!

Development

With the technical cooperation of Jordan Co., Ltd., the “University Town Kyoto / Student Town Kyoto App” aims to steadily deliver various initiatives and various information for students to realize a student life that can only be experienced in Kyoto. The council (consisting of Kyoto City and the University Consortium Kyoto) started joint development in 2019.

(1) Recruitment of student project members

In order to have more students use the developed app, we were looking for members to propose app functions from the student’s perspective.
The members who come up with the app for university students will be divided into two teams and will create an app proposal unique to students studying and living in Kyoto.

* We are not currently recruiting.

(2) Student Project Members Kick-off Meeting

On July 10, 2019, a kick-off meeting was held by the members of the app’s student development project.
In order to incorporate the perspectives and ideas unique to students in the development, we recruited student project members. In the future, the 12 students will be divided into two teams to discuss the app’s features, design, and PR methods.
On this day, we had a kick-off meeting for the first time. There are various motivations for participating, such as “I want to create something using my ideas” or “I thought it would be fun to do something with students from other universities,” but members from various faculties and grades will work together to advance the project.

(3) Meeting with student project members Jordan Corporation

On August 6, based on the responses to a questionnaire collected from 340 students, we held a brainstorming session with staff from Jordan Co., Ltd., a technical cooperation company.

Jordan explained the recent trends in the app (what features, design, and operability are mainstream, etc.), and how to improve the calendar function of the new app, how to improve the usability of My Page, and how much information can be enriched. How do you create a design that is unique to Kyoto? What is the name and icon of the app? Use a character?? There was a lively exchange of opinions.

During the summer vacation period, in August ~ September, a full-day meeting will be held every week to solidify the proposals of the student members. Even after today’s meeting, the discussion among members will continue by gathering with students individually and using apps such as Slack.

(4) Student project members paid a courtesy call on the Mayor of Kyoto

On the occasion of the release of the KYO-DENT app for students, the student project members paid a courtesy visit to the Mayor of Kyoto.

The student app “KYO-DENT”, which has been developed with 11 student project members, will finally be officially released on March 26, 2020.

On Tuesday, March 24, at Kyoto City Hall, the student project team members gave a presentation to the mayor of Kyoto about the features and functions of the app. The students explained to the mayor that they had developed the app with their own desires, such as “I want you to like Kyoto,” “I want you to broaden your horizons from a lot of information,” and “I want you to create a university life with friends from various universities.”

The Mayor of Kyoto commented, “I am pleased that an app has been created that disseminates information to individual students, and Kyoto is a good place where students from various universities can work and learn together,” and expressed his hope that the spread of the app will lead to active exchange and diverse learning.

For more information on the courtesy visit to the Mayor of Kyoto, please see here! ⇒ Article published on the website of the Kyoto Student Public Relations Department “Kotokare”

(5) Release

On March 26, 2020, the app was finally completed and started streaming!

◆ Illustration of the application
This is the work of Moeka Yamaguchi, a member of the Kyoto Student Public Relations Department and a member of the Life Creation Course of the Department of Product Design, Faculty of Design, Kyoto Seika University. (As of March 2023)

◆ Flyers and posters
This is the work of Haruka Yoshimoto, a fourth-year student at Kyoto City University of Arts, majoring in visual design. (As of March 2024)

Inquiries

“Improving the Attractiveness of Learning and Attractiveness Unique to Kyoto” Council Secretariat
Kyoto City Planning Bureau, Policy Office, University Policy / Research and Public Relations Department, University Consortium Kyoto
TEL：075-222-3103／075-353-9130
FAX：075-222-2902／075-353-9101
MAIL: app-admin-ml ■ consortium.or.jp (Please change ■ to @ and send)