In September 2023, the University’s Inclusive Smart Society Program (ISS Program) was selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) for its “Project for Strengthening Universities’ Global Development Capabilities” – Support for Formation of Inter-University Exchange with the United States and other countries. The ISS program is an educational program that fosters international start-up talents to create a society (=Inclusive Smart Society) where people with diverse backgrounds such as age, gender, region, language, and disabilities can play a leading role equally based on innovative technology, in cooperation with Ohio State University (OSU) in the United States. The program is an educational program to nurture international start-up talents to create a society where people of diverse backgrounds such as age, gender, region, language, and disability can play a leading role equally (=Inclusive Smart Society) based on innovative technology.
Since last year, we have been making detailed preparations with OSU, and in March, our faculty and students visited OSU to discuss specific management methods, etc. The educational program was launched in April 2024.
As early as this past May, we hosted OSU students from the Institute of Health and Sport Science engineering departments as a short program and actively interacted with our students in adapted sports and other activities.