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Academic Year 2022 - A leap forward for TUAT- Initiatives to promote the strengthening of the university's functions

  1. Aiming to become one of Japan's largest and world-class veterinary centers -- Establishment of Animal Emergency Medical Center--
  2. Institute of Global Innovation Research
  3. West Tokyo Joint Center for Sustainability Research and Implementation
  4. Innovation Park Initiative Deep Tech Industrial Development Organization
  5. Co-creation Space Formation Support Program (COI-NEXT Co-creation Field (Nurturing Type)) Bioeconomy Innovation Co-creation Center for the Realization of a Carbon Circulation Society
  6. University-Based New Industry Creation Program Support for the formation of a university-based ecosystem-driven startup ecosystem
  7. Joint research with Japan Investment Advisor Co., Ltd. Realizing a carbon-neutral society and forestry revitalization through effective use of fast-growing tree resources
  8. WISE Program in TUAT
  9. Highly innovative human resource development
  10. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology of Agriculture and Technology's performance as seen in rankings [Reiwa 2 (2020) fiscal year]

Aiming to become one of Japan's largest and world-class veterinary centers - Establishment of Animal Emergency Medical Center-

In order to respond to the increasing diversity and sophistication of veterinary medical care, we will renovate existing facilities on the Koganei Campus (Faculty of Engineering) to establish Animal Emergency Medical Center, our university's second Animal Medical Center (scheduled to open in the fall of 2022).
Animal Emergency Medical Center will provide general medical care, medical care on weekends, holidays, and at night, and radiation therapy (scheduled to open around summer 2023*2), while the existing Animal Medical Center will continue to provide specialized medical care as before (scheduled to start afternoon medical care around autumn 2022*3).
By each center playing their own role and working together, it will be possible to provide more advanced veterinary care than ever before.
With the aim of becoming one of Japan's largest and world-class veterinary centers, we will work to further support local veterinary care, develop human resources, and engage in industry-academia collaboration activities based on the fusion of agriculture and industry, including veterinary and engineering collaboration.

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Institute of Global Innovation Research

Medium-term Plan (1) (2) (9) (18)

Institute of Global Innovation Research (GIR) was established in April 2016 as a pillar of our efforts to "strengthen cutting-edge research capabilities that can compete globally."
GIR is a research zone with the aim of promoting cutting-edge research and personnel system reform. It has set the theme of "solving the food and energy issues facing the world" and has established strategic research teams in the three research focus areas of "food," "energy," and "life sciences." In addition, as an international joint research base, Global Research Hub (GRH), it has established research units that have been developed from the strategic research teams and is working to achieve its mission of acquiring external overseas funding, developing international human exchange, and disseminating higher quality research results.
The Strategic Research Team and GRH will work together with renowned foreign Professor from overseas universities who are active at the world's forefront to promote cutting-edge research that is in high demand in society, and to continuously produce research results that will have a high global impact, breaking down the boundaries between existing organizational structures within the university.
We have created an open and competitive research environment that transcends boundaries, and are strengthening collaboration with cutting-edge research institutions both in Japan and abroad.
Furthermore, we are proactively creating opportunities for young researchers to take on cutting-edge research and play an active role in creating an environment that supports excellent researchers, such as by introducing flexible personnel systems including cross-appointment, pre-tenure track, tenure track, and career challenge systems, as well as implementing a program for sending young researchers overseas. Through these efforts, we aim to promote cutting-edge research that is competitive on a global scale and to create innovation that will open up a new future.

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West Tokyo Joint Center for Sustainability Research and Implementation

Medium-term Plan (2) (19)

In April 2022, we established West Tokyo Joint Center for Sustainability Research and Implementation, based on the educational achievements of the joint major at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Technology, the University of Electro-Communications, and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Through the international network built by the three universities, we aim to expand and enhance the collaboration between the three universities, particularly in the Global South (places and people around the world that are negatively affected by the globalization of modern capitalism), by uncovering the latest research and social implementation needs at local universities and regions, and by utilizing these research results in research activities and social implementation activities.
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies will be primarily responsible for exploring solutions to the problems of realizing an inclusive society centered on multilingual and multicultural coexistence, and for researching their effective implementation in society. The University of Electro-Communications will be primarily responsible for approaches based on product development and industrial application of technological innovation. Our university will be responsible for visualizing the concept of sustainability and spreading it to the international community through policy proposals and information dissemination in collaboration with various stakeholders. By collaborating with the three universities, we will develop and implement solutions that solve social problems brought about by a global economy based on economic supremacy.
The expansion and deepening of collaboration between the three universities, whose campuses are located close to each other, transcending the boundaries between the arts and sciences and centering on important issues such as sustainability, multicultural coexistence, and social implementation, represents a model for how future collaborations should be among universities in Japan. The impact of this center, which continuously produces "comprehensive knowledge" by a national university, is expected to become even greater.

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Innovation Park Initiative Deep Tech Industrial Development Organization

Medium-term Plan (16)

Our university has established a new Deep Tech Industrial Development Organization Industry Development Organization (hereinafter referred to as the Organization) by combining Frontier Research Initiative Forming Research Circle, an open innovation hub directly managed by President that combines and connects existing research centers, and the Innovaton Garage, a pilot project to create university-based ventures.
The organization aims to realize the "innovation ecosystem that serves as the foundation for the creation of new value co-creation industries" as set out in the "Basic Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation" (Cabinet decision on March 26, 2021).
Specifically, we will work to expand our open innovation bases through co-creation and collaboration with companies and public research institutions, promote industry-academia collaboration centered on large-scale joint research between organizations, create startups by discovering and nurturing promising entrepreneurs, and develop and promote backcasting business plans that predict future markets.
Furthermore, by organically linking these efforts, we will further accelerate the social implementation of seeds originating from our university and the creation of new industries, and contribute from the university's perspective to building a new industrial foundation in which diverse organizations co-create value.

Co-creation Space Formation Support Program (COI-NEXT Co-creation Field (Nurturing Type)) Bioeconomy Innovation Co-creation Center for the Realization of a Carbon Circulation Society

Medium-term Plan (1) (19)

In 2021, our university, as the representative institution, submitted a joint proposal with participating institutions (universities, companies, etc.) to the Japan Science and Technology Agency's "Co-Creation Space Creation Support Program (COI-NEXT) Co-Creation Field/Nurturing Type," and our proposal was accepted.
Humans depend on carbon fixed by plants through photosynthesis for most of the food, energy, and materials they need to live. Furthermore, with the invention of agriculture, they succeeded in transforming from a hunting society to an agricultural society, and succeeded in obtaining large amounts of food. However, for energy and materials, we are still a hunting carbon society that relies on fixed carbon (fossil resources) from the past, and this is the cause of environmental problems such as global warming. The aim of this base is to realize a carbon-recycling society through carbon farming, including energy and materials.
In order to realize a carbon-recycling society based on carbon farming, we need comprehensive bioeconomy research and development that covers biomass production through agriculture, efficient technologies for converting biomass into energy and materials, and waste utilization.
The center has set five targets, including cultivating rice, wood, and marine algae, which are areas in which Japan excels, and developing technologies for efficiently converting them into hydrogen, liquid fuel, and materials. It will also develop technologies to fully utilize biomass by producing biogas from waste and recovering phosphorus and other elements, and will work with local governments and companies to realize social implementation.

target
1. Establishment of sustainable biomass cultivation techniques
2. Establishment of material development technology through carbon cultivation
3. Establishment of a zero-emission biomass fuel supply system
4. Establishment of recycling technologies for a sustainable waste-free bioeconomy
5. Realizing a society that accepts carbon farming

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University-Based New Industry Creation Program Support for the formation of a university-based ecosystem-driven startup ecosystem

Medium-term Plan (4) (5)

With support from the Japan Science and Technology Agency's "Startup Ecosystem Formation Project," our university is participating as a joint institute in the "Greater Tokyo Innovation Ecosystem (GTIE)," which fosters university-originated ventures that will change the world. GTIE is led by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and other local governments, with the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Waseda University as the core institutes, 13 joint institutes, and over 50 other universities and local governments. It is a platform that provides an educational foundation for forming communities between industry, academia, and government, sharing activity bases and spaces, and cultivating entrepreneurial talent. GTIE will provide the following services on this platform: Four Initiatives Through this initiative, we aim to create and nurture internationally competitive startups, achieve sustainable economic development in Greater Tokyo, and promote the social implementation of university research results through to 2025.

① Entrepreneurship support program operation
We operate the GAP fund to foster academic startups, as well as our own search fund, matching with VCs, private companies, etc. and supporting the formation of founding teams.

② Entrepreneurship Education Program
We provide practical entrepreneurial education and promote the development of entrepreneurial talent in order to create academic entrepreneurs who can compete on the global stage.

③ Improving the business environment
We will create an entrepreneurial environment for researchers and students.

④ Formation and development of ecosystems in hub cities
We will form a community for entrepreneurship through various events and strengthen our network with overseas VCs, etc.

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Source: Excerpt from the GTIE website (https://gtie.jp)

Joint research with Japan Investment Advisor Co., Ltd. Realizing a carbon-neutral society and forestry revitalization through effective use of fast-growing tree resources

Medium-term Plan (1) (16)

Aiming to realize a carbon-neutral society and forestry regeneration, our university began joint research with Japan Investment Advisor Co., Ltd. (JIA) in November 2021. With the ambitious goal of "realizing a carbon-neutral society and forestry regeneration," more than 20 Faculty Member from our university with various fields of expertise, including agriculture and engineering, are participating in the project, and will not only conduct laboratory-level research, but also conduct empirical research based in the experimental forest at FM Karasawayama (Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture), one of the eight fields owned by our university.
In recent years, the artificial forests of Japanese cedar and cypress trees that were planted after the war have reached the harvesting age, and reforestation after felling has become a social issue. We aim to establish a new forestry industry that contributes to a decarbonized society and can achieve a stable supply of domestic wood biomass energy by building a forestry and forest industry system that enables domestic wood biomass fuel production without relying on imports. In this study, we use fast-growing trees, which are trees that grow very quickly. The use of fast-growing trees has great advantages in terms of 1) high timber productivity, 2) reducing the burden of forest management by reducing the labor required for underbrushing, and 3) highly effective use for biomass energy through ultra-short rotation cultivation, and can significantly shorten the conventional forestry and forest industry cycle period (the period required for the series of cycles of planting, felling, and reforestation) and reduce the labor required.
Furthermore, this research will develop technology for advanced utilization of the high-added-value useful components obtained from fast-growing trees, aiming to establish a highly economical forest resource recycling process that combines energy production and high-added-value material production.

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WISE Program in TUAT

Medium-term Plan (4) (5) (6)

Our university's WISE Program in Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology is characterized by "creating new industries" and "diversity." In cooperation with private companies and overseas research and educational institutions, we train outstanding doctoral candidates who will lead the "super smart society" by co-creating agriculture and engineering. This is a Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology project adopted in 2018 to train highly skilled doctoral candidates who will be responsible for creating innovation over a five-year period while ensuring seamless integration of agriculture and engineering and a global standard diversity environment. The three pillars of education and research in this program are: 1) the challenge of "creating new industries through collaboration between agriculture and engineering," 2) strengthening research and business development capabilities based on an understanding of diversity, and 3) acquiring a broad perspective, originality, international competitiveness, and high level of expertise. Students from all fields of agriculture and engineering can participate in this program, and we aim to mutually understand a wide range of fields, such as food production through ICT and automation, energy, robots, artificial intelligence, new material development, autonomous driving and mobility, biotechnology, smart agriculture and forestry, livestock and veterinary medicine, infectious disease control, and the environment, hone our research skills through the exchange of knowledge and technology, and realize new ideas and new developments. To achieve this, we provide effective overseas training and study abroad, social surveys, joint projects with companies, competency assessments that serve as indicators of human capabilities, a portfolio system that visualizes growth, and exit support after graduation. This human resource development is supported by a strong network with 10 domestic partner companies and institutions, as well as collaboration with eight world-class overseas research and education institutions, and is carried out with an eye to the future through industry-government-academia collaboration.

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Highly innovative human resource development

Medium-term Plan (3) (9) (17)

The Institute for Fostering Leadership to Create Future Value through Outstanding Research, Innovation and Sustainable Higher Education (FLOuRISH) is aimed at students enrolled in doctoral programs at our university's graduate school, and aims to support the development of science and engineering innovation leaders through two systems: providing necessary funding as fellowships, creating an environment in which students can concentrate on their research, and offering educational programs of their choice.

1. Institute for Fostering Leadership to Create Future Value through Outstanding Research, Innovation and Sustainable Higher Education Zone JIRITSU (Independent) Fellowship Scheme: A system that provides a period of time for researchers to independently tackle research topics with free ideas and provides the necessary funds as a fellowship. Researchers are required to clearly define their research mission, such as collaborative research, and to forge ahead with their research.

2. FLOuRISH Next Generation Researcher Challenging Research Program Fellowship Program: A program to develop science and technology innovation leaders who can contribute to society by acquiring cutting-edge research capabilities from new perspectives that differ from the conventional, through a comprehensive perspective provided by entrepreneurship. Students are required to take various educational programs such as those for social implementation.
Note: Since there are some fees to be paid Faculty Member, it is necessary to discuss the matter thoroughly with the host Faculty Member before applying.
Our educational programs include 1) innovation mindset development education, 2) career development programs, and 3) practical entrepreneurial education.
In addition, the university holds the Entrepreneur Challenge, an idea and business contest aimed at encouraging the social implementation of research, and is open to the entire university, including undergraduate students and faculty and staff. The top award winners are provided with funding to conduct hypothesis testing, and additional prizes are also awarded by co-hosting and supporting organizations.

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2021 Entrepreneur Challenge Pitch Contest

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology of Agriculture and Technology's performance as seen in rankings [Reiwa 2 (2020) fiscal year]

Ranking [Number of joint research projects with private companies]
Total number (number of cases)		 [Number of joint research projects with private companies]
Number of cases per Faculty Member		 [Amount of joint research funding received from private companies]
Total (million yen)		 [Amount of joint research funding received from private companies]
Amount accepted per Faculty Member member		 [Number of patents implemented]
Number of cases per Faculty Member		 External funding ratio
1 University of Tokyo 1,977 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology University of Tokyo 13,249 University of Tokyo University of Tokyo University of Tokyo 25.3%
2 Osaka University 1,382 Tokyo Institute of Technology Osaka University 9,014 Osaka University Tokyo Institute of Technology Tokyo Institute of Technology 24.7%
3 Tohoku University 1,306 University of Tokyo Kyoto University 5,935 Tokyo Institute of Technology Hokkaido University Kyoto University 22.7%
4 Kyoto University 1,300 Osaka University Tohoku University 5,172 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Osaka University Osaka University 20.8%
5 Kyushu University 716 Tohoku University Nagoya University 3,984 Kyoto University Kyoto University Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology 17.3%
6 Tokyo Institute of Technology 695 Kyoto University Tokyo Institute of Technology 2,702 Nagoya University Nagoya University Tohoku University 16.8%
7 Hokkaido University 636 Kobe University Kyushu University 2,119 Tohoku University Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Hokkaido University 12.3%
8 Nagoya University 619 Kanazawa University Hokkaido University 2,005 Kyushu University Kyushu University Kyushu University 12.1%
9 Kobe University 586 Kyushu University University of Tsukuba 1,497 Hokkaido University Hiroshima University Kobe University 9.9%
10 University of Tsukuba 446 Chiba University Hiroshima University 1,277 Kobe University Kanazawa University University of Tsukuba 9.2%
11 Hiroshima University 444 Hokkaido University Kobe University 1,245 University of Tsukuba Chiba University Hiroshima University 8.1%
12 Chiba University 362 Nagoya University Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology 729 Hiroshima University University of Tsukuba Hitotsubashi University 7.2%
13 Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology 329 Hiroshima University Chiba University 713 Kanazawa University Tohoku University Okayama University 7%
14 Okayama University 316 University of Tsukuba Kanazawa University 611 Chiba University Kobe University Kanazawa University 6.6%
15 Kanazawa University 311 Okayama University Okayama University 414 Okayama University Okayama University Chiba University 6.5%
16 Hitotsubashi University 10 Hitotsubashi University Hitotsubashi University 36 Hitotsubashi University Hitotsubashi University Nagoya University (Note) ー

*Rankings are based on the 16 universities that are in the priority support category (3) of the National University Corporation Management Expenses Subsidy.
Source: Based on the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's "Status of Industry-Academia Collaboration at Universities, etc. in FY2020," the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's "Financial Results for FY2020 of National University Corporations, etc." and the National National Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Education "Basic Information on Universities"

*External funding ratio is the ratio of funds acquired from external sources such as joint research, commissioned research, and donations to ordinary revenue.
(Note) With the launch of the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System (Nagoya University and Gifu University) in April 2020, the external funding ratio for individual institutions is not recorded.

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