Our society is faced with many problems today, including a declining birth rate and aging population, food and health issues, child poverty, and environmental problems. To deal with these problems will require effective, sustainable, innovative mechanisms (social innovation) that work not only through public institutions but also through corporate activities, etc.

Since the basic planning stage, the University of Nagano has been focused on solving social problems through such means as cultivation of an entrepreneurial mindset to tackle new problems and academic activities.

We bring together diverse individuals and intellectual resources from within and without the university to develop and support human resources that will pursue social innovation. Through those activities, we are creating an ecosystem in which ambitious individuals can take up the challenge of solving social problems, increasing the number of companies and jobs that are appealing to young people one at a time and contributing to the development of a sustainable world.

Community coordinators are tasked with looking after business operators and founders, living in communities throughout the prefecture to connect them to CSI.