21O■ce of Sophia Sustainability Promotion(Hereafter OSSP) was established in July 2021 by Sophia School Corporation operating Sophia University to further promote initiatives to ful■ll its social responsibility. Sophia University has engaged actively in research, education and social contribution activities and initiatives that contribute to sustainability promotion represented by SDGs. OSSP plays a role in overall control, grasps a complete view of the various activities, disseminates information in and outside the University, enhances collaboration with external organizations for the existing activities, and aims at promoting new activities. OSSP is hiring student sta■ members to create new values from interdisciplinary exchange of ideas among faculty, sta■ and students. At present, OSSP has three major teams, namely Campus Improvement team, Planning and Implementation team, Information Dissemination team, actively participating in tasks of public relations, information collection, institutional design as well as supporting relevant o■ces, with young, ■exible, and inventive mind.MIRAI 2.0 is a collaboration between 9 Japanese universities and 11 Swedish universities. The primary purpose of this collaboration is to advance long-term research collaborations and promote Sweden and Japan as leading nations of global large-scale research infrastructure. Scholars, professionals, students, and administrators exchange innovative ideas and create international leading knowledge together through scienti■c workshops and seminars in the ■elds of Ageing, Arti■cial Intelligence, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Materials Science, and Sustainability. The Research & Innovation weeks is one of the main engaged collaborative researchactivities of MIRAI 2.0.The Strategic Alliance of Catholic Research Universities (SACRU) is a global network of Catholic universities dedicated to research and teaching excellence, engagement and global collaboration informed by Catholic social teaching. Advancing world leading knowledge and higher education for the common good through SACRU collaborations will be the mission of SACRU. The vision of SACRU will be to reinforce the link between faith and reason in the digital age, enhance research for the common good, promote global education, develop digital transformation, accelerate interdisciplinarity in education and research, and contribute to knowledge and technological transfer through various global academic engagement activities and initiatives.Nanotechnology Research CenterChallenging the Possibility of Three Primary Color Light-Emitting Devices Based on Nanocolumns and NanocrystalsThe Nanotechnology Research Center was established in April 2008 as Sophia University’s core organization for nanotechnology research. Its present activity centers on collaborative projects with companies. This center operates to study various subjects based on GaN nanocolumns and related nanocrystals, which were pioneered by the project team member, that is, aiming at overcoming the challenging issues of nitride semiconductor emission devices, developing the fundamental technology of three primary colors emitting devices, exploring novel solid state physics based on nanocrystals, and ■nally clarifying the physics of nanocrystal e■ect of nanocolumns. Recently, blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) attracted attention because they led bright and energy-saving white light sources. This research project aims the development of base technology of three primary colors integrated laser/ LEDs with the highly functional and ultra■ne structures, in which red, green, and blue laser / LEDs are monolithically prepared on the same crystal, was achieved. This new generation light emitting devices, which provide a micro size full color light spot, exerts a great impact on the full-color application ■eld by innovating display systems of laser / LED projection displays, retina scanning personal displays, and so on.Photonics Research CenterCreating new optical devices with extreme nanofabrication technology and the latest theorySophia Photonics Research Center has been established in 2019 as an activity base of research project regarding to “Creating Topological States and Innovative Functionality Based on Arti■cial Graphenes” (2018-2023) which is a CREST program of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). The main subject of this project is experimentally demonstrate the “topological phonic phenomena” at room temperature in visible light region and develop new optical device technology based on world top-level semiconductor nanostructure fabrication technology of Sophia University. As an example of topological photonic phenomena called “topological edge transport”, light can propagate an interface between two di■erent type insulators which cannot transfer the light. In this state, the light became very robust for structural disordering and shows one directional propagation. At the Photonics Research Center, we are conducting research activities to develop innovative technologies for realizing new optical devices utilizing such novel physical phenomena.Initiatives Related to SDGs & SustainabilityInternational Cooperation Activities in the Field of ResearchResearch and Development Center forCAE technologies applied fornext-generation transport aircraft designAiming to realize virtual testing in aircraft designThis center is engaged in activities aimed at the research and development of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) technologies which can contribute to the design of commercial aircraft. Our main objective is to smoothly carry out outsourced work from Tohoku University related to the Development of Aircraft Design Technologies for Ideal Composite Structures, a New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) research project. More speci■cally, the following two types of research topics are to be conducted.Development of Design Simulator for Aircraft Structures using thermoplastic CFRPDevelopment of Virtual Testing Technologies for thermoplastic CFR StructuresBased on computational mechanics and composite material engineering, our research and development includes various engineering analyses using numerical simulation methods such as the Finite Element Method (FEM), as well as validation experiments and software development. The results of this research promise to contribute to the development of Japan’s aerospace industry. Furthermore, by establishing subjects of study in relation to the content of work and by giving research guidance to our students, it is expected that in the future we will be able to produce excellent engineers who can play an active part in both the aerospace and manufacturing industriesPICK UPPICK UPProject Research Division(As of September 2023)
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