While addressing the various challenges facing the local community, we aim to become a hub for regional academia that will build a mechanism for the creation of new knowledge and coexistence toward solutions through flexible collaboration between university academia and local stakeholders, including local governments, and from there, propose and implement creative regional policies that make use of regional diversity.
Overview of the Regional Creation Research Center
1. About the Hokkaido Bunkyo University Regional Creation Research Center
The Hokkaido Bunkyo University Regional Creation Research Center was established with the aim of conducting policy research aimed at resolving regional issues, contributing to regional revitalization, and proposing pioneering regional policies from local areas.
Through exchanges with a wide range of researchers, government practitioners, and private citizens from both within and outside the university and administrative district, the Center aims to strengthen the university's functions as a "new hub of knowledge," deepen interest and understanding of the local community, and cultivate human resources with more practical problem-solving skills.
2. Background to the establishment of the Regional Creation Research Center
In this complex and diverse era, where changes far exceed people's imagination, such as the threat of new infectious diseases and the military invasion of Ukraine, and where our past experience and common sense no longer apply, Japan continues to experience a severe population decline that is beyond our expectations.
We in rural areas are faced with the difficult policy proposition of "how to build a new local community." To solve this difficult problem, we need to foster the intellectual strength of the region itself, drawing on the diverse and flexible powers that the region possesses, in order to solve the problem itself. To achieve this, it is important for the region itself to build a "system for creating new knowledge" that utilizes the academic resources and power of local universities.
3. Collaboration between Hokkaido Bunkyo University and Eniwa City
Based in Eniwa City, Hokkaido Bunkyo University has been responsible for training human resources with high levels of expertise and skills in the fields of education, food, welfare, medicine, and international affairs, and has been working to collaborate with the local city of Eniwa, taking advantage of its expertise. Meanwhile, Eniwa City is promoting its own urban development policies aimed at forming a garden city, and in 3, to commemorate the 2021th anniversary of its municipal incorporation, a forum was held at Hokkaido Bunkyo University, where it declared "coexistence city development for a new era of rural areas" and is working to solve local issues from the perspective of coexistence.
In light of these circumstances, Hokkaido Bunkyo University and Eniwa city have been exploring the creation of a new platform for coexistence and collaboration that combines the academicism of a local higher education institution with the policymaking power of local government in order to resolve the various issues facing the local community.
In order to enhance its role as a local university that contributes to the local community and strengthen its university functions, Hokkaido Bunkyo University has established the Hokkaido Bunkyo University Regional Creation Research Center, which will be the core of the formation of the platform, in April 5 in close collaboration with the local city of Eniwa.
Contact the Center
email: crc＊do-bunkyodai.ac.jp
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Phone: 0123-21-8836 (direct)