Social Liaison Vision

The survey has five categories: "organizations and systems" for promoting regional contributions; "students and residents" for public lectures and regional events, local employment of students, and programs for relearning for working adults; "companies and government" for joint research with local governments and companies and the number of university-launched ventures; "university as a place of work" to assess the contribution of the company to the community as a place of work, such as measures to address work-life balance for female faculty members; and "SDGs and measures against COVID-19", which reflects current social issues and is newly added to the survey.

Approximately 800 of the regular classes that students take each year (at the Center for General Education and in eight faculties) are open to the public. Approximately 300 students attend these classes in the first and second semesters each year.

Visiting Lectures

In response to requests from community centers, lifelong learning institutions, schools and other public institutions and organizations, our university's faculty members travel to various parts of the prefecture to give approximately 140 lectures a year, with approximately 10,000 students attending.

Public Lectures

These classes are open to the general public, including local residents. We offer a variety of classes for elementary and junior high school students as well as the elderly.

In August 2006, Shinshu University Hospital was designated a Prefectural Cancer Treatment Center by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare. The "Comprehensive Cancer Center" had served as a center for treating patients with malignancies. With a view to achieving further developments in cancer therapy, the conventional "Comprehensive Cancer Center" was dissolved into the "Shinshu Cancer Center" in April 2013. The "Shinshu Cancer Center" provides comprehensive cancer therapy, supportive care and cancer registration. The center was accredited as a designated cancer genomics hospital in October 2019 and since April 2020 has been providing cancer genomics medical care and laying the groundwork for "Bio-Bank Shinshu".

Sharing regional treatment information (with patient approval) with multiple medical institutions using ICT, we work with the relevant medical institutions to ensure a clear understanding of testing, diagnosis, treatment plans, and the overview of treatment plans, and utilize this information in the treatment provided at the University Hospital. The goal is safe and advanced medical treatment, and better quality treatment for the community as a whole.

Center for Disaster Mitigation and Prevention promotes systematically education and research related to regional disaster prevention and mitigation, taking advantage of the results of the research related to the mechanisms of disaster occurred, etc., and strengthening disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities working with local community.