Enhance evidence-based, strategic decision-making

Gather and analyze data pertaining to various research, education, and outreach activities at the university and use this evidence for guiding university management decisions, planning, evaluation, and resource allocation to achieve self-sustainability.

Strengthen stakeholder engagement

Expand opportunities for diverse stakeholders to provide new perspectives and advice for use improving university management and strengthen industry-academia-government-citizen collaboration to contribute further to development of the local region.

Promote diversity, equity, and inclusion

Build an environment that encourages the recruitment of talented people from diverse backgrounds and lifestyles, regardless of nationality, gender, race, and age, in all positions throughout the university and introduce corporate, international, and equity points of view into university management.

Develop and promote new models for society

Fuse knowledge from multiple disciplines to devise new models for realizing a people-centered society utilizing digital transformation (DX) and disseminate and share the outcomes of this research with society.

Train data-literate professionals

Establish a research and learning environment that is flush with opportunities to acquire math, data science, and AI skills such as by utilizing open data and train students and researchers to be able to incorporate these skills in their own research fields.

Promote DX-led projects with high potential for social impact and implementation

Create new value that enables social and economic system reform through data-driven education, research, and medicine and share and utilize the output of these efforts in various regions through collaboration with local governments and the private sector.

Incorporate problem-solving and value-creation education in all curricula

Introduce perspectives and thinking for identifying and solving problems and creating value into all undergraduate and graduate curricula and train professionals who can design a new society and create new value with integrative knowledge.

Introduce integrative, cross-disciplinary doctoral degree programs

Train highly skilled knowledge professionals with multifaceted skills and perspectives by introducing integrative, cross-disciplinary doctoral degree programs

Strengthen industry connections and entrepreneurship training

Boost collaboration on education with the private sector to further diversify career path options upon graduation and introduce system-wide entrepreneurship education to train human resources who will take the challenge to create new value.

Enhance student support for diverse needs

Enrich the campus and research environment to accommodate the diverse needs of all students to help them succeed and enhance not only financial support, such as with fellowships, but also comprehensive student support.

Boost research strategizing and support toward creating integrative knowledge

Bolster the university’s functions for strategizing and coordinating research efforts and focus research support through effective resource allocation to reinforce our platform for creating integrative knowledge that advances technology and solves social issues.

Strengthen cutting-edge research and discovery of new fields

Strategically allocate funds and personnel to accelerate our leading research in key areas for society such as decarbonization, medicine and health, and environment and food and unlock and grow new research areas to continue contributing to society.

Recruit excellent early-career researchers and enrich the research environment

Introduce a comprehensive support system to recruit, train, and retain excellent early-career, female, and international researchers and make the research environment even more conducive to exploring new ideas through systems such as for a Free Quarter for Research (FQR)* and research equipment sharing.

*The Free Quarter for Research (FQR) system aims to reduce the burden of teaching and administrative tasks and allow researchers to secure at least one quarter dedicated solely to research by taking advantage of the quarter system for educational courses; streamlining and integrating class subjects through the use of digital technology; setting a three-month period during which administrative meetings of the university as well as departments will, in principle, not be held; and reducing the number of participants in and the frequency of such meetings.

Identify issues and make visions by collaborating across sectors

Encourage collaborative projects with industry, academia, government, and citizens by forming a platform for collaborations that cross organizational boundaries and identifying and creating mid- to long-term goals and visions through backcasting.

Implement research output in society

Quickly capture outstanding research findings that can generate innovation and bring these new technologies to society starting in Fukuoka and Kyushu and extending out to Asia and the world by growing collaborations with society and boosting the creation of intellectual property and startups.

Promote community outreach and citizen science

Expand community outreach activities to promote research and innovation that are socially responsible and involve the local community in research and educational activities related to social experiments.

Expand and deepen strategic international partnerships

Lead international consortia of higher education institutions to showcase Kyushu University’s strengths and unique features and select and refocus existing and new strategic partnerships to expand and deepen international collaboration.

Establish a robust collaboration network for early-career researchers

Become a hub for international talent circulation that attracts early-career researchers from home and abroad across disciplines and generations and build a robust research and education network.

Build a global environment

Improve financial support and the living and work environment for international students and researchers through collaboration with the private sector and encourage exchange and collaboration among Japanese and international students and researchers.

Provide treatment and train specialists for infectious diseases

Provide clinical care for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and train medical specialists for supporting these efforts to contribute to ensuring safety and protection of local communities against infectious diseases.

Become a hub for genomic cancer medicine and for clinical research

Provide cutting-edge medical care in the local community such as through cancer treatment guided by genome analysis and act as a hub for clinical research that contributes to the development of pharmaceutical products and medical equipment.

Develop personalized healthcare

Develop cutting-edge personalized medicine by collecting clinical data and samples from regional and disease cohorts, analyzing them with newly developing technologies, and revealing the molecular origins of diseases for each individual patient.

Increase external funding through institutional agreements

Increase institutional collaboration agreements with the private sector to accelerate research that leads to social impact and application and secure external funding such as through large-scale research collaborations and commissioned research to further advance the university’s research and education resources.

Boost intellectual property income by accelerating startup creation

Develop multi-layered startup support funds and establish a systematic program to foster entrepreneurs to accelerate the creation of university startups and increase income from intellectual properties.

Expand donation income by strengthening ties

Increase income from donations by strengthening ties with a wide range of stakeholders, such as alumni and international students, and by enhancing fundraising functions.