2018.07.27
Keio University's Faculty of Policy Management, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, and Graduate School of Media and Governance, and Kwansei Gakuin University's Faculty of Policy Management, Graduate School of Policy Studies, Faculty of Science and Technology, and Graduate School of Science and Technology have signed a collaborative partnership agreement to contribute to the further development of both universities by leveraging the characteristics of their interdisciplinary campuses and through mutual cooperation.
On July 23, a signing ceremony for the collaborative partnership agreement between the two universities was held at Keio University's Mita Campus. The dignitaries present were, from Kwansei Gakuin University, Kazushi Hosomi, Dean of the Faculty of Policy Management, and Junichiro Mizuki, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology. From Keio University, Ken Kawazoe, Dean of the Faculty of Policy Management, Yoko Hamada, Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, and Jun Murai, Dean of the Graduate School of Media and Governance, were in attendance. A press conference was held following the signing of the agreement.
In 1990, Keio University opened the Faculty of Policy Management and the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at its Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC). The establishment of this new interdisciplinary campus and its faculties, aimed at creating a new form of jitsugaku (science) for the 21st century, attracted great public attention. In 1995, Kwansei Gakuin University established the Faculty of Policy Management as an interdisciplinary faculty at its Kobe-Sanda Campus (KSC). Later, in 2001, the Faculty of Science was relocated from the Nishinomiya-Uegahara Campus to KSC, and in the following year, 2002, it was expanded to become the Faculty of Science and Technology. Thus, both campuses share the commonality of being interdisciplinary and having practiced interdisciplinary education and research since their inception.
Through various exchanges between the two campuses, which will be considered on an ongoing basis, it is expected that increased opportunities for individual faculty and students to engage with a wider variety of research fields will lead to the generation of original ideas and cultivate a strong ambition to create new academic disciplines. Furthermore, in disseminating and contributing intellectual techniques for problem discovery and resolution to society, complementary cooperation that leverages the respective regional characteristics of each campus will become possible between their industry-academia-government collaboration organizations.
Source: General Affairs (Public Relations), Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office