Community collaboration and facility useRegional Collaboration Initiatives
Utilizing the intellectual resources and facilities of the university,
We contribute to the local community through education and research.
About Center for Regional Collaboration
Center for Regional Collaboration was established in 2015. By coordinating the university's seeds* with social needs, we aim to improve the educational environment for students beyond the campus, and to promote the development of both the community and our university.
*Seeds is a marketing term that refers to strengths such as knowledge and technology.
Main Initiatives
Cooperation within Kashiwa City
Cooperation with Kashiwa City
Since its founding in 1935, our university has placed importance on cooperation with surrounding municipalities and has grown alongside the development of the region. The campus is a designated evacuation shelter, and we have a disaster prevention agreement with Kashiwa City. In addition, in the area of education, in response to a request from Kashiwa City, which has become a core city, we have begun to directly cooperate in training elementary and junior high school teachers. In order to comprehensively integrate these projects with Kashiwa City and deepen our activities into more strategic and efficient activities, we concluded a comprehensive cooperation agreement in March 2013.
Collaboration with the Kashiwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Following the comprehensive partnership agreement with Kashiwa City in June 2013, we also concluded a comprehensive partnership agreement with the Kashiwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The purpose of this partnership agreement is to contribute to the sustainable development of local commerce and industry and the local community by mutually utilizing intellectual, human and material resources in a wide range of fields, and it covers four areas: (1) promotion of commerce and industry, (2) human resource development, (3) town development, and (4) internationalization of the region.
Additionally, in October 2019, we will participate in the Tokatsu Industrial Association's industry-academia-government collaboration system, and we hope to expand collaboration with companies throughout the Tokatsu region, not just in Kashiwa City.
Reitaku Community Cooperation Training
This internship is a class aimed at first-year students and is designed as the first step in a PBL (Project Based Learning) style of learning in which students take action and work on solving problems independently over the four years of their university life.
After basic learning such as business etiquette training, students work with Kashiwa City and the Kashiwa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, with whom the program has a partnership agreement, to conduct interviews and discussions about issues facing local governments and companies, devise solutions and improvement measures, make presentations in front of partner parties, and receive evaluations.
Collaboration with Kashiwa Urban Design Center (UDC2)
We are affiliated with the Kashiwa Urban Design Center, a public-private-academic partnership organization. Our faculty members are cooperating with research on urban development around Kashiwa Station.
University Consortium Tokatsu
Our university is working on the development of the university and the local community through the "University Consortium Tokatsu," an organization in cooperation with the government and other universities. The "University Consortium Tokatsu" is a collaboration between universities in the Tokatsu area and nearby areas, including our university, and five local governments (Kashiwa City, Abiko City, Nagareyama City, Matsudo City, and Noda City), deepening cooperation and exchanges between the private, industrial, academic, and government sectors to build a network between universities and the local community, and between universities themselves.
Reitaku Open College (Reitaku Open College in Kashiwa)
Reitaku Open College (Reitaku Open College in Kashiwa) offers attractive lifelong learning courses that combine advanced expertise with the joy of learning, with three basic pillars: language, culture, and lifestyle. More than 50 courses are offered each year, with over 1,000 people taking part, and special lectures are also held by well-known people from both inside and outside the university. For more information, please visit the Reitaku Open College in Kashiwa website.
