On our 100th anniversary in 2011, Kyushu University raised the slogan "Breakthrough Top 100 University" to leap into the top hundred universities in the world in all fields. Our underlying philosophy is to "continue autonomous reform as well as to ensure an international quality of education and become a center of research and education of the highest standards, full of vitality, and constantly addressing future challenges."
Kyushu University's strength as a key university is that researchers conduct creative, necessary academic studies in a wide range of fields based on their intellectual curiosity. A broad foundation for academic research enriches cultural and social life, becomes the motivational force for innovation, and has allowed us to boldly face up to once unimaginable global environmental issues, to our current resource and energy problems, and to the pathology and treatment of incurable diseases, which has led to many great achievements. Focusing on these fundamental values of academic research, we will strengthen the support system to develop it further.
In academic research, we will become the driving force for contact between different fields to develop new frontiers. We aim to promote highly specialized academic fields and integrate and fuse these academic fields into a greater whole.
For areas that are expected to lead to outstanding world-class research achievements, we will aim for further heights and emphasize supporting these fields to form a world-class research center, actively promoting cutting-edge research that leads to solving the problems that humanity faces and by proposing and demonstrating new social systems.
Science and technology, including the humanities and social sciences, all support social and economic development. Also, modern times require people who can play an active role in a globalizing society and economy. Such persons need to develop basic knowledge across the humanities and sciences and interdisciplinary thinking skills for problem-solving and the ability and attitude to autonomously continue learning to identify problems and find solutions. Communication skills are also essential to cooperate and build good relationships with people holding different values, and this includes foreign language proficiency. Kyushu University aims to develop such skills in its students. By actively promoting study abroad in its core education departments and the new departments that are being prepared, we will train active learners with high international awareness.
Since ancient times, Kyushu has been the gateway to Japan for receiving continental civilization and has fostered a local culture with tolerance for different cultures. The campus is located in the very area that first took up continental culture, and it is surrounded by the precious nature of the sea and mountains. Students develop in this productive cultural and natural environment, with excellent teachers in education and research, an international student body, and a wide-ranging interaction with people in the local community. In the local industry, they will become independent and develop into future leaders of society.
With the low birthrate and aging population, it is critical to developing industry and employment opportunities to develop and pass on a rich culture underpinned by vibrant economic activity. Kyushu University will contribute powerfully to the creation and development of the local industry by leading innovation in science and technology. In recent years, science and technology innovation has been applied rapidly and implemented in society through wide-ranging interactions between universities, industry, the public sector, and the private sector. As seen in our research on hydrogen energy and social information infrastructure, Kyushu University contributes to regional vitalization by becoming a core of open innovation and promoting strong cooperation between industry, academia, the public sector, and the private sector.
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