The Advanced Comprehensive Research Organization (ACRO) aims to increase the value of the research seeds and needs of the university, and to contribute to the development of society based on that knowledge and enhance the research capabilities of Teikyo.
Philosophy of Advanced Comprehensive Research Organization
The world today is filled with a mountain of social problems and challenges. Various efforts are being made to solve these problems, but there is by no means just one possible approach or means. We are called upon to solve problems that do not have a single correct answer, so to speak, confronting such challenges requires collaboration and cooperation that transcends academic fields, that is, active cooperation between people with various specialties. When it comes to social challenges, it is particularly vital to build a research system that combines the humanities and sciences.
Teikyo University is a comprehensive university with 10 faculties and 11 graduate schools across five campuses, covering a wide range of fields from humanities and social sciences to natural sciences. We are able to create such collaborative structures within the university alone, and we can also build collaborative structures with other universities and companies to work together to solve problems. With this in mind, the university has held research exchange symposiums to support the creation of collaborative relationships across campuses and faculties within the university. Now, the seeds of various new collaborative research projects are beginning to sprout. Collaborative research within the university is freely carried out with each campus as its base. In order to further accelerate this, we are currently constructing a new research building in the Itabashi area to serve as a place for various collaborative research practices, as well as a place for joint research with industry and open innovation. The interior of the research building has been designed based on Open Laboratory specifications so that we can take on challenges in various new academic fields.
We regard the research style of aiming to solve social issues through research that integrates humanities and sciences as the "advanced", and will challenge various issues at the Advanced Research Institute, which was established in April 2021.
This department focuses on themes such as "Development from Medical Science," "Sports and Health," and "Food and Nutrition," and works to maintain and promote health (a healthy and energetic state of both body and mind) and to restore health, which is what is most desired in a long-lived society.
Risk Management Research Sector
This department focuses on themes such as "medical crisis management" and "social life and safety/security," and works to prevent various crises and create safe social systems with the goal of creating a safe and secure society and living environment.
Complex Recognition Research Sector
This department focuses on themes such as "biological information and functions," "intermolecular interactions," and "fluids and fluctuations," and is involved in the study of complex systems science, which examines the complexities created by the interactions of things, as well as the elucidation of human cognitive functions, which can be considered a prime example of complex systems.
Open Innovation Category
This division aims to build an innovation ecosystem involving the university through themes such as "Addressing energy issues," "Applications of photonics," and "Applications of information technology," aiming to put the university's research seeds into practice in society through active collaboration with external parties and by broadly exploring possibilities for creating new innovations within the university.
Next Generation Education Research Sector
This department explores various forms of practical education with themes such as "fostering general-purpose thinking skills" and "lifelong learning center," aiming to develop human resources with the qualities that future society will require (such as the ability to identify and solve problems).
Social Cooperation Sector
This department provides various support services, such as identifying industry-academia collaboration projects and utilizing intellectual property, from the perspective of "nurturing ventures" and "promoting collaboration," in order to connect the "knowledge" of our university to society.
Humanities Research Sector
A department that aims to provide universal values such as values, ethics, and ideas that are indispensable for the sound development of individual research across departments. It provides a new perspective to other departments that tend to be promoted solely on the basis of natural science values.
AI Application Sector
A department that aims to anticipate the future of society and provide cross-sectoral creativity and ideas that coexist with AI as a given matter. AI Application Sector provides a new perspective of AI utilization in individual research.
Director Makoto Asashima (Professor, Complex Recognition Research Sector)
Vice Director Kazuo Okanoya (Professor, Complex Recognition Research Sector) Hodaka Nakanishi (Professor, Social Cooperation Sector)
Department Head Shunichi Amari (Professor, AI Application Sector) Atsushi Iriki (Professor, AI Application Sector) Reiko Goto (Professor, Humanities Research Sector) Sawako Hanyu (Professor, Humanities Research Sector) Masamitsu Iino (Professor, Health Science Research Sector) Koji Okamoto (Professor, Health Science Research Sector) Shigeru Shibata (Professor, Health Science Research Sector) Sachiko Tsukita (Professor, Health Science Research Sector) Masahiro Morikawa (Associate Professor, Health Science Research Sector) Yasuhiko Anshinin (Professor, Risk Management Research Sector) Chieko Kai (Risk Management Research Sector) Makoto Asashima (Professor, Complex Recognition Research Sector) Kazuo Okanoya (Professor, Complex Recognition Research Sector) Masanobu Kano (Professor, Complex Recognition Research Sector) Junko Atsumi (Professor, Open Innovation Division) Shinichi Takagi (Professor, Open Innovation Division) Yoshihiko Horio (Professor, Open Innovation Division) Mamoru Mitsuishi (Professor, Open Innovation Division) Toshimitsu Yokobori (Professor, Open Innovation Division) Hiromasa Yamashita (Associate Professor, Open Innovation Division) Shinichi Ichikawa (Professor, Next Generation Education Research Sector) Hodaka Nakanishi (Professor, Social Cooperation Sector)
Activities
Research Exchange Symposium
Once a year, we hold a symposium for faculty, staff, and students to share information about the latest research activities. It is a university-wide event that creates interdisciplinary research across campuses and faculties/departments through panel discussions, poster presentations, networking sessions, and more.
RIAT Research Grant Research Results Presentation
Once a year, a research results presentation and review meeting is held for projects in the final year that have been selected for a research grant from Advanced Comprehensive Research Organization.
Advanced Research Institute Seminar
About once a month, we hold regular research seminars and lectures by experts in various fields that combine the humanities and sciences, aimed at faculty, staff, and students of our university, as a forum for intellectual exchange and free discussion among people with different specialties.
Academic conference
Once a month, we provide a space for researchers to discuss freely and in a relaxed atmosphere, with the aim of promoting further intellectual exchange and interaction between researchers from different fields. We aim to educate each other, generate ideas, contribute to society, and develop young talent.
ACRO Times
We publish an in-house magazine that provides information related to our organization.
Research Grants for Advanced Comprehensive Research Organization
The organization has established a grant system for researchers affiliated with Teikyo University.
Incubation Grants
The purpose of this collaborative research is to bring together the strengths of our university as a comprehensive university, increase the value of our valuable research seeds, and utilize that knowledge to solve various social issues, thereby promoting the utilization of our university's superiority.
Team Research Grants
As various social issues rapidly become more diverse, complex, and large-scale, the importance of interdisciplinary research has increased even when analyzing and studying a single theme. This grant aims to promote collaborative research across faculties and campuses that requires a multidisciplinary approach.
Special Research Projects
The aim is to further develop Teikyo University's research capabilities, make it a symbolic research project for the university, and connect the results of the research with society to contribute to a co-creation society.
Inquiries
Advanced Comprehensive Research Organization Teikyo University 〒173-0003 2-21-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo
