Water-Scarce Society Research CenterInitiatives Related to Diversity & SustainabilityInternational Cooperation Activities in the Field of ResearchPICK UPPICK UPIn the year 2023, the Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) project titled "Securing the Sustainability of Oasis Societies Associated with Water and Land Use in the Western Desert" (Egypt) was approved for funding by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). This research brings together the arts and sciences in a humanities-led approach to consider how "oasis knowledge" can be developed for sustainable groundwater use through collaboration between Japanese universities and research institutions and the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) and New Valley University in Egypt. The Water-Scarce Society Research Center was established to serve as the project's focal point in Japan.21The Office of Sophia Sustainability Promotion (OSSP) was established in July 2021 by Sophia School Corporation which operated Sophia University aiming to further promote initiatives that fulfill its social responsibility. In July 2024, to further promote its activities, OSSP and the Office for the Promotion of Diversity were reorganized into the Office for the Promotion of Diversity and Sustainability(OPDS). Sophia University has engaged actively in research, education and social contribution activities and initiatives that related to sustainability promotion as represented by SDGs. OPDS plays a role in overall control, grasps a complete view of the various activities, disseminates information both within and outside the University, enhances collaboration with external organizations for the existing activities, and fosters new activities. OPDS is hiring student staff members with flexible and inventive minds to create new values from interdisciplinary exchange of ideas among faculty, staff, and students. At present, OPDS has three major scopes of activities, namely Campus Improvement, Planning and Implementation, Information Dissemination. Student staffs actively participate in tasks of public relations, information collection, institutional design as well as supporting relevant offices.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.MIRAI is a collaboration between 7 Japanese universities and 10 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. The third phase of MIRAI (2024-2026) embarks on a bold mission to focus on global challenges, to be tackled collaboratively. By this, MIRAI aspires to contribute not only to the Sweden-Japan collaborations but also to global issues that should be discussed and handled across nations on the international scale.Project Research Division(As of April 2025)
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