4 Challenges to realize our Future Vision

1. Cultivating the intellectual frontier with fusion of science technology and culture　Promotion of cultural and scientific research

To intensify the role of our city pioneering intellectual frontier, through interactive cooperation between universities and research institutes
To promote pleiotropic research on "world future" with cross-cutting cooperation among natural science, humanities and social science
To enhance the frontier research on eco / energy, population / food / water problems, medical care / brain science for the academic research of sustainable society
To enrich human resource within coordination among universities, research institutes and companies
To flourish original Keihanna culture, we cherish to blend culture / academic research / science into the daily life, and to bloom education / study program enjoying intellectual learning

The 3rd Tokyo Forum held by International Institute for Advanced Studies. On the theme" Constructing sustainable society and science" (February 2015)

Based on the open-innovation hub, we newly build up the integrated support system to produce and to direct projects for setting up academic research and innovation strategy, intellectual property, harmonizing the interests among stakeholders, and supporting field demonstrations for the industrialization activating scientific technology
To tighten cooperation among Keihanna Open Innovation Center @ Kyoto (KICK) and incubation facilities, universities, and research institutes
To strengthen the relations with local industries, we generate the network among local associations supporting innovative projects in Kansai for motorizing Kansai
To enhance the international networking, we diligently invite proper international conferences and seminars interchanging and networking with foreign science parks
To set up the circumstance accepting residences, education, job opportunity, employment on promotion inviting foreign schools, research institutes, and companies

Kyoto Smart-City Expo 2019 at the Keihanna open-innovation center @ Kyoto

To nurture new life style; smart life motorizing eco-system, energy, transportation and innovation with ICT advancing rapidly
To raise our city's charm by utilizing historical cultural heritages and natural resources.
To enhance our city's diversity, furthermore, we enforce to invite research institute leading the frontier business / academic field, and manufacturers playing the role to work research institute, and to enrich the function of the conventions supporting interchanging and networking.
To enforce the extension of the major routes such as Route163, Route Yamate and Central-Yamato-Route, to improve access and network to the nation-wide infrastructure such as Shinkansen lines and major highways, Kansai international Airport(KIX), Kyoto, Osaka and Nara.
To promote the Double Track Project of JR Katamachi line; Science City line and Nara line and to discuss about extending Kintetsu Keihanna line To develop the new transportation system improving mobility such as the ICT future system of the chain bus and car-sharing

To obtain smart life with ICT activated in various field

We produce the new cooperation with every facility joining equally, and with building up networking management system generating multiplier effect,

Conference for creating new city playing the role of network hub in our city
New cooperating system among the above three fields, promoting culture and science, city development and promoting innovation
Establishing the system consolidating and transmitting information as the city management center