“Academic City Collaborative University” Promotion Project [2016~2019]

　Since 2016, the Consortium of Universities Kyoto, a public interest incorporated foundation, has been working with Kyoto City to promote university-wide community collaboration efforts even more than ever before by implementing the “Learning-City Partnership University” promotion project, which supports universities that develop and implement practical educational programs in which students learn through activities in collaboration with local residents’ organizations, civic groups, local companies, shopping districts, etc. The project will be implemented for four years from 2016 to 2019. The
　following six universities have been certified as participating universities in the “Learning-City Partnership University” promotion project.

List of selected universities
Interim evaluation results
Business performance report

List of universities selected for the “Gakumachi Collaborative University” Promotion Project

Otani University

Project name: University-community collaboration project centered on Kita-ku and Kitaoji area

　Based on the achievements of projects such as the “Nakagawa School District Life Discovery Project” and the “Otani University Happy Hour” (on RADIO mix KYOTO), childcare support projects, etc., which have been undertaken by the Community Collaboration Office (Commu-Lab) established in 2015 and the Junior College Early Childhood Education and Care Department, we will implement a “University-Community Collaboration Project Focused on the Kita-ku and Kitaoji Areas.
　” Through this project, we will work with local residents, NPOs, local companies, shops, etc. on themes such as “childcare support,” “community information dissemination,” and “tourism promotion.”

Kyoto University of Education

Project name: Producing small content and self-guidebooks to support “Learning about Kyoto and promoting Kyoto”

　Students in teacher training will be interviewing and editing three-minute videos about the attractions of Kyoto’s geography, history, literature, lifestyle, and art for elementary and junior high school students. They plan to create useful content that can be used in classes for various subjects in elementary and junior high schools, and as preparatory learning for school trip students from all over the country who are visiting Kyoto. They aim to create
　150 small pieces of content over three years, making use of the experience they have gained in teacher training lectures and keeping in mind the content structure and terminology used in the videos that are easy for elementary and junior high school students to understand.

Kyoto Women’s University

Project name: “Establishment of a ‘Community Women’s Training Program’ – Aiming to train women leaders who will support the community”

　Kyoto Women’s University has been closely involved with the local community and has been steadily working on collaborative activities focusing on everyday life issues such as childcare, education, support for the elderly, and support for neighborhood association activities, making the most of the characteristics of a women’s university. We will expand on this track record and position collaborative activities in the curriculum, building a “Community Women’s Training Program” that aims to train female community leaders with the ability to identify local issues, solve problems, and take action.
　As a first step, in 2017, we will offer a “Community/Industry-Academia Collaboration Course Group” for all faculties and grades, which will include an introductory course that theoretically teaches the social significance of collaborative activities, and a collaborative course that promotes students’ active participation in activities. In addition to our existing activities, we will develop a wide range of collaborative activities both inside and outside of the regular curriculum, such as support for safe and secure town development and support for Kyoto’s industries.
　Furthermore, we will form the “Kyoto Women’s Round Table” with the institutions with which we have agreements, aiming to play a role as a hub for generating exchanges between the government, companies, and citizens.

Kyoto Tachibana University

Project name: Regional Collaboration Education Program “Nurturing and Harmonizing with Each Other” in the Yamashina and Daigo Regions

　Based on the achievements of the community cooperation that we have built up in the Yamashina and Daigo regions, we have established three core themes and developed seven educational programs, aiming to help students to “resonate” with the community, be trained in the community, and grow into human resources who can contribute to the community. The fields range from humanities and social sciences to nursing, medicine, health, and welfare. In addition to the long-standing projects of discovering the local culture in Yamashina Ward, promoting the local economy, and developing the town, and the collaborative projects with Kyoto City and the housing complex residents’ association in Daigo-Nakayama Danchi in Fushimi Ward, we will take this project as an opportunity to set up a “satellite” community cooperation center near Yamashina Station, secure a base of activity for students, and create a system where the community and students can “grow together”. In addition, to address important issues in modern society such as elderly care and childcare support, we will launch new programs in the nursing, medicine, and health and welfare fields, and the entire university will work together to solve local issues.

Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts

Project name: “Future Kyoto urban development program centered on Kyo-machiya”

　The “Machiya Lectures” held at Kyoto Machiya townhouses at the university since 2004 will be further developed by integrating with a series of existing educational programs inside and outside the university curriculum, and will be reborn as a multidisciplinary regional collaboration educational program through interactions with local residents and collaboration with museums.
　Kyoto’s historical process and current situation will be understood from the perspective of each “Kyoto Studies” from a wide range of fields across faculties and departments, such as history, geography, education, literature, and tourism, and students will learn independently and interactively with the local community through fieldwork in Kyoto City and workshops with local residents. Through such programs, we aim to disseminate proposals for the future from the perspective of female university students about the creation of a disaster-resistant regional collaboration society based on the experience of reconstruction support education.

Ryukoku University

Project name: Development of a regional collaborative educational program through multigenerational and multicultural collaboration
　　　　- Aiming to realize “community-based learning” where students and the local community learn together –

　Taking advantage of the characteristics of southern Kyoto City, centered on Fushimi Ward, where Ryukoku University’s Fukakusa Campus is located, we aim to build a community-based education called “Community-Based Learning (CBL)” that allows students and the community to learn together through multigenerational and multicultural exchange and build mutual trust.
　In order to implement many CBL projects through curricular and extracurricular activities, we will expand and organize the various community collaboration seeds that have already been accumulated in curricular and extracurricular activities, research, and community contributions, and build a “community collaboration seeds bank” that connects both the needs of educational programs and the needs of the community.
　In addition, we will actively carry out awareness-raising activities regarding CBL, give as many students as possible the opportunity to make their debut in the community, and support students who actively participate in community collaboration activities.

Interim evaluation results of the “School-City Partnership University” Promotion Project

　The “Academic-City Partnership University” Promotion Project, which began in 2016, has a support period of four years until 2019. In 2018, the third year of the project, an interim evaluation was conducted by external experts, and this was carried out on July 28th. The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Name of university and applicant: Otani University President Yasushi Kigoshi

Business name:

University-community collaboration centered on the Kita-ku and Kitaoji areas. Click here for an overview .

Overall evaluation:

Although some initiatives are seen to be equivalent to or even superior to those planned, we hope that further efforts will be made, taking into consideration the comments, in order to achieve the objectives of this project.

Comment:

It is commendable that university-wide courses were offered ahead of schedule and that many students are participating in a variety of projects, but it is necessary to implement the specific improvement measures that have been identified as soon as possible.
It is necessary to examine the degree to which various initiatives, including radio program production, are contributing to the local community and to further disseminate the results.
I hope that in the future efforts will be made to make this a university-wide initiative under the strong leadership of the president, rather than being limited to just one faculty or seminar.
There is a need to further disseminate information about the results, such as student involvement in various initiatives and how they are leading to student learning and growth.

[Reference]: Otani University website ” CommuLab “

Name of university and applicant: Tomohide Hosokawa, President, Kyoto University of Education

Business name:

Producing small content and self-guides to support “learning about Kyoto and promoting Kyoto” Click here for an overview .

Overall evaluation:

Comment:

It is commendable that this initiative is leading to reform of teacher training curricula, but in the future, more ingenuity and maintenance will be needed to ensure that the video content created is utilized.
Since it is difficult to see the degree of student initiative and the contribution that content production makes to the local community, there is a need to further deepen efforts and enrich content that is unique to students and is planned independently by students.
I hope that in the future efforts will be made to make this a university-wide initiative under the strong leadership of the president, rather than being limited to just one faculty or seminar.
There is a need to further disseminate information about the results, such as student involvement in various initiatives and how they are leading to student learning and growth.

[Reference]: Kyoto University of Education special website “GAKUMACHI.KYOTO”
Kyoto University of Education YouTube channel

Name of university and applicant: Tadayuki Hayashi, President, Kyoto Women’s University

Business name:

Establishment of the “Community Women’s Training Program (Minor)” – Aiming to train women leaders who will support the local community -　
<Click here for an overview >

Overall evaluation:

The initiative is proceeding as planned, and by continuing current efforts, the objectives of this project will be achieved.

Comment:

We appreciate the university’s accurate understanding of the needs of local female leaders and women in business, and its steady deepening of ties with local and external organizations. We hope to see the university further enhance its industry-academia collaboration and expand its initiatives, which are unique to a women’s university.
I hope that in the future efforts will be made to make this a university-wide initiative under the strong leadership of the president, rather than being limited to just one faculty or seminar.
It is necessary to further disseminate information about the results, such as student involvement in various initiatives, how they are leading to student learning and growth, and the degree to which the projects are contributing to the local community.

[Reference]: Kyoto Women’s University ” Regional Collaboration Research Center Website “

Name of university and applicant: Ryoichi Hosokawa, President, Kyoto Tachibana University

Business name:

A regional collaborative educational program for “growing together and resonating together” in the Yamashina and Daigo regions. Click here
for an overview.

Overall evaluation:

The initiative is proceeding as planned, and by continuing current efforts, the objectives of this project will be achieved.

Comment:

The fields in which the regional collaboration is being carried out are wide-ranging, making use of the characteristics of the university. In addition, students have been involved in the initiatives, with some initiatives having far exceeded their target number of participating students. It is also commendable that the initiatives are widely disseminated through social media etc.
With regard to child-rearing support initiatives, it is necessary to steadily advance these efforts in cooperation with local organizations within the city.
I hope that in the future efforts will be made to make this a university-wide initiative under the strong leadership of the president, rather than being limited to just one faculty or seminar.
It is necessary to further disseminate information about the results, such as student involvement in various initiatives, how they are leading to student learning and growth, and the degree to which the projects are contributing to the local community.

[Reference]: Kyoto Tachibana University ” Regional Collaboration Education Program Achievements 2016 PDF “

Name of university and applicant: Hiroo Kaga, President of Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts

Business name:

A future Kyoto urban development program centered around Kyo-machiya townhouses < Click here for an overview >

Overall evaluation:

Comment:

The content of the townhouse course was excellent and highly evaluated, but as the involvement of the students was not clearly visible, more communication is needed about the parts of the course that were planned and run by students.
We hope to deepen these efforts so that the lessons learned from fieldwork outside the city can be better utilized in urban development in Kyoto.
I hope that in the future efforts will be made to make this a university-wide initiative under the strong leadership of the president, rather than being limited to just one faculty or seminar.
There is a need to further disseminate information about the results, such as how they are contributing to student learning and growth, and the extent to which the project is contributing to the local community.

[Reference]: Doshisha Women’s College　 of Liberal Arts , Department of Social Systems, School of Contemporary Business website

Name of university and applicant: Ryukoku University President Takashi Irizawa

Business name:

Developing a regional collaborative educational program through multigenerational and multicultural collaboration
– Aiming to realize “community-based learning” where students and the local community learn together – <Click here for an overview >

Overall evaluation:

Comment:

The ideas behind CBL (Community-Based Learning) and the regional collaboration seeds data bank are commendable. Collecting seeds and connecting them with the region is a very important perspective, and in the future, it is expected that a coordinating role will be established.
Considering the size of the university, there is a need to further increase the number of students involved in the initiative.
I hope that in the future efforts will be made to make this a university-wide initiative under the strong leadership of the president, rather than being limited to just one faculty or seminar.
It is necessary to further disseminate information about the results, such as student involvement in various initiatives, how they are leading to student learning and growth, and the degree to which the projects are contributing to the local community.

[Reference]: Ryukoku University Regional Collaboration Seeds Bank ” with DRAGON “

Report on the results of the “School-City Partnership University” Promotion Project

The “School-City Partnership University” Promotion Project, which began in 2016, has completed its four-year support period up to 2019. We would like to report the project results of each selected school as follows.