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Message from the President

九州大学総長 石橋達朗

Tatsuro Ishibashi, President of Kyushu University

We have published the “Kyushu University Faculty Handbook 2024”. This handbook provides newly hired faculty members and research fellows with concise and easy-to-understand information on a wide range of topics. The information includes the University's philosophy and policies, administrative organization, education and research systems, service and ethics regulations, use of facilities and equipment, and various administrative procedures. The purpose is to share the University's administrative policies and to enforce strict compliance with the laws.

Kyushu University was designated as a "Designated National University Corporation" on November 22, 2021. Based on that, we have made plans which show our direction and policy for the next ten years as “Kyushu University Vision 2023”. Our vision is to be a “university that leads social innovation with comprehensive knowledge”.
To fulfill this vision, in addition to finding solutions to social issues in three areas such as decarbonization, medical/health and environment/food, and to promote digital transformation, education and research, we are expanding activities to contribute to social innovation.

In line with this, in April 2022, we established the “Integrated Initiative for Designing Future Society”, the “Promotion Office for Data-Driven Innovation” and the “Open Innovation Platform (hereinafter called OIP)” as infrastructure to promote social innovation.

Starting in AY 2023, the Integrated Initiative for Designing Future Society – “Think Tank Unit”- has been in full operation. It serves as the central organization for solving social issues by backcasting based on the ideal future society. It has begun to collaborate with the existing three units. The Promotion Office for Data-Driven Innovation performed data transformation in education research and prepared an organization that promotes data transformation in health and the medical field, and it has begun data transformation in tasks.

Moreover, in March 2023, we created a common platform “Kyushu / Okinawa Open University (KOOU)” to cooperate with 11 national university corporations in the Kyushu and Okinawa area. This platform is centered on cooperative efforts in the improvement of research abilities. We are implementing drastic measures to improve research environments; something difficult to work on as an individual university.

We also formed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) aiming to solve social issues by producing excellent research results from integrating research using both universities strengths and characteristics.

We hope that all new faculty members and academic researchers at Kyushu University will have our vision and initiatives in mind while engaging in educational and research activities that contribute to them and that this guidebook will be helpful for you in all your future activities.