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Liaison Masayuki Fujisawa
Submission Date Dec. 19, 2013
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Kyoto University
PAE-20: Inter-Campus Collaboration on Sustainability

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete Reporter Kazuyuki Tahara
Director
Office for a Sustainable Campus
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Does the institution collaborate with other colleges and universities to support and help build the campus sustainability community?:
Yes

A brief summary of papers, guides, presentations, and other resources the institution has developed to share their sustainability experience with other institutions:

To accelerate campus sustainability in Japanese universities and contribute to create more environmentally sustainable society in Japan, we plan to establish sustainable network, CAS-Net JAPAN(Campus Sustainability Network in Japan). We have already four meetings for establish with other universities.
The purposes of CAS-Net JAPAN are as follows;
-To promote environmental activities of the “hard aspects” such as energy saving, CO2 reduction, traffic plan, waste management, etc.
- To carry out the “soft aspects” such as environmental education, regional cooperation, food issue, effective administration, etc.
- To establish cooperative relationship with the advanced network of foreign universities in line with above-mentioned efforts.


The names of local, state, regional, national, and other campus sustainability organizations or consortia in which the institution participates and/or is a member:

CAS-Net JAPAN(Campus Sustainability Network in Japan) will be launched in March 2014.


A brief summary of additional ways the institution collaborates with other campuses to advance sustainability :

We visited the universities in USA, UK, Canada and France, to investigate progressive cases of campus sustainability with other Japanese universities.


The website URL where information about cross-campus collaboration is available:
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