2019.02.01

“The 3rd Hiroshima University Symposium on SDGs: Innovation, Collaboration, and Transformation from Hiroshima”

The Symposium will focus on transformative collaboration between universities and corporations for SDGs. It will consist of three parts: In the part one, world-top researchers will review such collaborations in the global arena and discuss how to build and manage transformative cooperation, referring to innovative actions and researches ever taken by Future Earth. The part two will have two interesting cases introduced as advanced examples from Japan’s corporates, and the part three will have four presentations from Hiroshima University’s research groups enjoying active collaborations with corporates. Many corporations including ones belonging to Hiroshima University Phoenix Cooperative Consortium could attend the event. So, one of the most important objectives is that both the University and those companies are to identify prospective seeds and needs for transformative collaboration which can make them more reputed and competitive in the world, as well as general participants are to learn about recent information about the collaboration

The symposium will be held as following details:

[Date & Time] Monday/National Holiday, February 11th, 2019

　　　　　　 13:00 – 17:40 (Venue will open at 12:20)

[Venue] Large Conference Room, Alumni association KOUJIN of Department of Medicine at Hiroshima University

　　　　1-2-3, Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan

[Language] English/Japanese (Simultaneous translation is available)

[Admission] Free

[Registration] Open to everyone, pre-registration is required.

　　　　　　 https://appform.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/20190211/

[Organizer] Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (NERPS)

　　　　　 Hiroshima University TAOYAKA PROGRAM

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