FY2019

Business overview
Event Outline

Contact Information

Business overview

With the aim of raising awareness of FD among university faculty and staff and contributing to the improvement of university education, the University Consortium Kyoto has been holding an FD forum every year since 1995, with the themes of (1) disseminating FD activities, (2) providing a place for practical and research reports on university education and class improvement and for personal interaction, and (3) disseminating information on FD activities in Kyoto. This is a large-scale FD event attended by many university faculty and staff members and education-related personnel from all over the country.

Event Outline

The 25th FD Forum

February 20, 2020 15:
30Due to the spread of COVID-19,
we have decided to cancel the 25th FD Forum scheduled to be held on Saturday, February 29 and Sunday, March 1, 2020.
We deeply apologize for any inconvenience caused to those who had applied to attend.

Overall theme

Considering how universities should act independently

Date and Time

Saturday, February 29, 2020, Sunday, March 1, 2020

venue

Access to Ryukoku University Fukakusa Campus (Fushimi-ku, Kyoto)　

Sponsored by

The Consortium of Universities, Kyoto

Sponsorship

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto City

The 25th FD Forum leaflet can be downloaded here.

schedule

	time	Content	venue
Saturday, February 29th	12:00	Registration begins	Building No. 3
	13:00~17:00	Symposium	Building No. 3
	17:30~19:00	Information exchange meeting	Building 22, basement cafeteria
March 1 (Sun)	9:00	Registration begins	Japanese Face Museum
	10:00~12:00	Breakout session (morning session)
	12:00~13:30	Break Poster Session Core Time
	13:30~15:30	Breakout sessions (afternoon session)

Symposium

Details of the symposiums can be found here.

*You will only be able to participate in one of the symposiums.

Symposium 1	Now is the time to reconsider “university reform” Capacity: 470 students (250 students with priority for member schools)
The purpose of the FD forum is to provide and share information that is useful for promoting FD at each university. On the other hand, there are probably many FD staff at each university who feel that there are few participants or that they cannot gain understanding within the university when conducting FD training on campus. In some cases, the staff themselves may think that they are performing their duties as they were told to do so from above, or may have doubts about the way the national government and the Central Council for Education are promoting FD and so-called “university reform”. In this symposium, we will take a moment to think about the current situation surrounding universities and the trends and significance of so-called “university reform” including FD. In a place like the FD forum, it may be difficult to discuss doubts or discomfort about FD and university reform, but we believe that facing such thoughts is also an important purpose of the FD forum. Symposium speakers: Hiroaki Ozawa, Vice President and Professor, Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Chiba University ; Takeshi Yamada, Associate Professor, Center for the Promotion of Research and Development in Higher Education, Kyoto University ; Koichi Watanabe, Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Osaka University of Economics and Law; Ryo Ishida, Chairman, Kyoto Seika University Coordinator: Sohei Yamada, Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Kyoto Seika University
Symposium 2	How can we simultaneously solve social issues through SDGs and higher education? Capacity: 250 people (180 people with priority for member schools)
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were set out in the outcome document adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in September 2015. As a result, member countries are required to work towards achieving 17 goals and 169 targets by 2030, including issues such as the environment, poverty, conflict, education, and food. How can higher education contribute to this? Based on a basic understanding of the SDGs, we will explore clues to the challenges that will pave the way for the future by looking at practical examples of achieving the SDGs without calling them SDGs, and the expectations placed on them by society. keynote speaker Masahisa Sato Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Information Studies, Tokyo City University Speakers: Mr. Katsutaka Shiraishi, Vice President (in charge of SDGs) and Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Ryukoku University; Mr. Shohei Kotsuji, Section Manager, Compliance Promotion Division, Saraya Co., Ltd. Commentator : Eisuke Kumano, CEO of Amita Holdings Co., Ltd. Coordinator: Hironori Yamaguchi, Associate Professor, Institute for Promotion of General Education, Ritsumeikan University

Symposium 1

Now is the time to reconsider “university reform” Capacity:
470 students (250 students with priority for member schools)

The purpose of the FD forum is to provide and share information that is useful for promoting FD at each university. On the other hand, there are probably many FD staff at each university who feel that there are few participants or that they cannot gain understanding within the university when conducting FD training on campus. In some cases, the staff themselves may think that they are performing their duties as they were told to do so from above, or may have doubts about the way the national government and the Central Council for Education are promoting FD and so-called “university reform”. In this symposium, we will take a moment to think about the current situation surrounding universities and the trends and significance of so-called “university reform” including FD. In a place like the FD forum, it may be difficult to discuss doubts or discomfort about FD and university reform, but we believe that facing such thoughts is also an important purpose of the FD forum.

Symposium speakers:

Hiroaki Ozawa, Vice President and Professor, Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Chiba University
; Takeshi Yamada, Associate Professor, Center for the Promotion of Research and Development in Higher Education, Kyoto University
; Koichi Watanabe, Associate Professor, Faculty of
Liberal Arts, Osaka University of Economics and Law; Ryo Ishida, Chairman, Kyoto Seika University

Coordinator:

Sohei Yamada, Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Kyoto Seika University

Symposium 2

How can we simultaneously solve social issues through SDGs and higher education?
Capacity: 250 people (180 people with priority for member schools)

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were set out in the outcome document adopted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in September 2015. As a result, member countries are required to work towards achieving 17 goals and 169 targets by 2030, including issues such as the environment, poverty, conflict, education, and food. How can higher education contribute to this? Based on a basic understanding of the SDGs, we will explore clues to the challenges that will pave the way for the future by looking at practical examples of achieving the SDGs without calling them SDGs, and the expectations placed on them by society.

keynote speaker
Masahisa Sato Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Information Studies, Tokyo City University

Speakers:

Mr. Katsutaka Shiraishi, Vice President (in charge of SDGs) and Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Ryukoku University;
Mr. Shohei Kotsuji, Section Manager, Compliance Promotion Division, Saraya Co., Ltd.

Commentator

: Eisuke Kumano, CEO of Amita Holdings Co., Ltd.

Coordinator:

Hironori Yamaguchi, Associate Professor, Institute for Promotion of General Education, Ritsumeikan University

Subcommittee

Details of the subcommittees (complete version) can be viewed here. You

can also view details for each subcommittee in the table below.
*You will only be able to participate in one of the subcommittees.

Session Themes
Subcommittee 1	Thinking about first-year education
2nd subcommittee	Examples of robot and ICT use in universities
Subcommittee 3	Is active learning necessary in universities?
4th Subcommittee	SDGs and University Education: Practical Guide
5th Subcommittee	University’s “multicultural coexistence” education applied to the local community
6th Subcommittee	University education to create a 21st century society from the perspective of women’s empowerment
7th Subcommittee	The first flipped classroom design workshop
Subcommittee 8	Workshop to improve lessons by starting with a problem awareness
9th Subcommittee	“University Reform” from the Perspective of Young Researchers
Subcommittee 10	Dealing with a motivation crisis
Subcommittee 11	Training child and family support professionals to deal with modern social issues
Subcommittee 12	STEAM education in the VUCA era : logic and ethics in designing learning environments that co-create value

Poster Session

This is a presentation by member schools of the University Consortium Kyoto.
Poster display time: 11:00-14:30
Poster session core time: 12:00-13:30
* During core time, presenters will answer questions from participants in front of their posters.

Contact Information

Consortium of Universities Kyoto, Public Interest Foundation FD Project Contact
TEL: 075-353-9163 FAX: 075-353-9101 Address:
Campus Plaza Kyoto, Nishinotoin-dori Shiokoji-sagaru, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8216
*Reception hours: Tuesday to Saturday 9:00-17:00 (excluding New Year holidays)