Kyoto University Research Coordination Alliance,
Research Units for Exploring Future Horizons

In this program, Kyoto University establishes the “Research Units for Exploring Future Horizons” and strengthens the communication and coordination between the research institutes and centers that covers various fields of academic research, and interdisciplinary studies for the establishment of new research field by bottom-up approach with international research partners.
Under the Kyoto University Research Coordination Alliance, 4 projects are ongoing as the organization “research unit”, where IAE is involved in 2 projects.

Unit of Academic Knowledge Integration Studies

Leader：Prof. Seiichiro Hara (Center for Southeast Asian Studies)
Leader in IAE：Prof. Hideaki Ohgaki
Project Period：FY2015 ‒FY2019

In this program, 15 departments collaborate to integrate academic knowledge accumulated in Kyoto University by using an advanced information technology, especially on database. The unit studies an interdisciplinary field of the digital-humanism targeting on the human security problems in south-east Asian countries as a practical field. The goal of the program is to offer an academic “big data” system to integrate the social science and natural science.

Unit for Development of Global Sustainability

Leader：Prof. Sumio Matsuura (Research Unit for Development of Global Sustainability)
Leader in IAE：Prof. Masato Katahira
Project Period：FY2015 ‒FY2019

The Institute of Sustainability Science, which pursued sustainability study in the past 10 years by the collaboration of 7 departments, has reformed itself into “Unit for Development of Global Sustainability”. This research unit aims at exploring and developing the idea and method of such plans focusing on the lifetime, on the basis of interdisciplinary collaborative researches.