Interlinkages and Innovation for Future Societies Research Unit

The University of Tokyo Institute for Future Initiatives and the Toyota Foundation are establishing a new partnership programme under the theme of “Interlinkages and Innovation for Future Societies” and wish to recruit researchers who will conduct research to transform social systems.
The flagship projects of the Institute for Future Initiatives;

1. Designing visions of the future in an AI society
2. Designing a regional circular and ecological sphere (Regional CES)
3. Research on security and peacebuilding in future societies

The partnership programme “Interlinkages and Innovation for Future Societies” is a new activity to design better future social systems by considering new developments in these flagship projects with an awareness of the “connections” among people, between people and nature, and between people and goods and technologies. In this partnership programme, we hope to make further progress in each flagship project by conducting research together with researchers within the university who are engaged in each project, and we also aim to nurture outstanding professionals who can lead transdisciplinary research.

The three flagship projects of the Institute for Future Initiatives;

1. Designing visions of the future in an AI society
2. Designing a regional circular and ecological sphere (Regional CES)
3. Research on security and peacebuilding in future societies

• Full-time researchers will be assigned to each of these flagship projects.
• From the perspective of each flagship project, we will publish policy recommendations and recommendations for society on the design of better future social systems with an awareness of the “connections”.
• We will promote collaboration with researchers and stakeholders in a wide range of fields inside and outside the university.