Community Impact in Action

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Collaboration with five local authorities in the Shonan region to realize “Future Cities for Well-being in Shonan area”

Keio University’s Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) has, over the around 30 years since its opening in April 1990, conducted various research, education, and development alongside diverse local actors to lead the way into the future while respecting the communities and culture of Shonan. In 2020, which marked the 30th anniversary of SFC, the Keio Research Institute at SFC and five local authorities in the Shonan region, pledging to continue to collaborate in various initiatives founded in their accumulated experience and achievements, concluded a partnership agreement for the realization of “Future Cities for Well-being in Shonan area”. To coincide with this, the “SHONAN FUTURE CITY” research project was launched based on the research consortium system at the Keio Research Institute at SFC. This calls on various actors in industry, government, academia, and the financial and private sector, to strengthen mutual cooperation and endeavor to build frameworks to promote research development which co-creates the future.
In AY 2024, while continuing its existing collaborations in various regions, Keio also launched new activities in others. In Endo Ward in Kanagawa Prefecture’s Fujisawa City, Keio University students volunteered weekly in an afterschool program to help junior high school students with their studies. In Kamakura City, university students served as “youth supporters” (volunteers) at COCORU Kamakura, which is a space established by the city as a “place for junior high and high school students.” In the Shonan Ward of Chigasaki City, a series of film screenings were held as part of the effort to create a place where local residents could gather in a relaxed atmosphere. These were followed by an outdoor film screening. These screenings were made possible thanks to the efforts of many people in the community. At the venue, people were able to freely interact and chat with each other even if they were meeting for the first time, expressing sentiments such as, “I’m glad I had the opportunity to watch a movie with the community.”

Applicable regions

Fujisawa city, Kamakura City, Zushi City, Chigasaki City, Samukawa Town, Kanagawa Prefecture

Implementation period

December 4, 2020 - present

Community and Regional Affairs category

• Social collaboration through advanced research
• Education of students/human resource development for the next generation
• Two-way recycling-oriented collaboration with local communities and societies

Related agreements, etc.

Research and Development of Shonan Future Cities for Well-being Partnership Agreement

Campus

SFC

Person in charge

Eiko Uchiyama, Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies

Inquiries

shonan@sfc.keio.ac.jp

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