About Ehime University
Home to around 10,000 students and 2,300 faculty and staffmembers, Ehime University (founded 1949) is a Japanesenational university in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, and thelargest university in the Shikoku region. Ehime University
seeks to lead the region and contribute to society from a
global perspective.
Location

Faculty ofCollaborative
RegionalInnovation

Regional collaboration for regional futures

About the Faculty ofCollaborative Regional Innovation
Established in 2016, CRI supports regional communities withdiverse stakeholders in co-creating sustainable regional futures
through excellent research and teaching. Across fourdepartments, over 50 faculty members welcome almost 200
students per year on their journey: to master the skill of servant
leadership through developing their own unique combination ofknowledge, abilities and experiences to face diverse regional
challenges. A council of regional stakeholders including
administration, NPOs, businesses and residents oversees andsupports CRI’s management.

Transdisciplinarity for
Regional Challenges
Urgent and diverse regional challenges (from climate change todepopulation) require a new approach to higher education.
Transdisciplinary education empowers students at CRI todiscover pathways to solving the issues regional communities
face. From truly understanding challenges to developing
solutions adequate for the local context, students, faculty andstakeholders collaborate in a new form of cooperation between
science and society that transcends the traditional model ofproviding information to policy makers. Four years of study,
including a strong emphasis on fieldwork and internships, allow
students to acquire problem solving skills, perceive multiple
perspectives, apply specialized knowledge, cooperate with andbuild relationships of trust between diverse stakeholders andallies through servant leadership.

Scenic spots in Ehime Prefecture

Dogo Hot Spring Spa Shimanami Kaido

Mt. Ishizuchi

Faculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation,
3 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture 790-8577, Japan
Phone:089-927-8927 Fax:089-927-9287
https://www.cri .ehi me-u.ac.j p

1Integrating
humanities and sciences

Solving complex regional challenges requires a holistic
understanding of the interactions between nature, society andeconomy. For CRI’s broad array of courses, our interdisciplinary
faculty draw upon and combine the most relevant knowledge andtheory across academic disciplines (including humanities,environmental science, agriculture, medicine, engineering,economics, physical education and many others).

2Practicebased education

From fieldwork to internships and project-based team learning, ourcourses expand the learning environment beyond the campus. As
part of CRI’s transdisciplinary approach, students collaborate
across departments and study years and work with diverse
stakeholders from local and regional communities on solving
real-world issues.

3 Co-creating

Departments & Courses

Reforming the region through the power of
economy and management

Opening up future industries
through regional collaboration

Department of

Department ofIndustrial Management

Industrial Innovation

Industrial Management Course
Business Creation Course

Marine Products Science Course / Paper Industry Course
Manufacturing Course

regional futures

CRI supports regional communities to envision and create
sustainable futures with their diverse stakeholders. As “residentresearchers,” CRI faculty and students are deeply rooted in theircommunities and in the best position to understand and meetthese diverse needs.

Sports&healthPaper industry

Integrated
knowledge

Culture&tourism

Problem solving skills
Faculty

StakeServant
holders
leadership

Ruraldistricts

Manufacturing

Environmental
sustainability
Disasterprevention

Regional Leadership

Department ofDepartment ofEnvironmental DesignResearchFisheries

Students

Cultivating regional futuresfrom diverse resources

Regional Resource Management

Environmental Sustainability Course
Regional Design & Disaster Prevention Course

Awareness of Challenges

Economics &management

Co-creating sustainable communities
for people and nature

Agricultural, Mountain and Fishing Villages Management Course
Cultural Resource Management Course
Sports and Health Management Course

Associated Ehime University Offices & Centers

OpticalCommunication
Systems
AccountingInformation Theory
Applied Microbiology

Below are some of the topics
our faculty members work
on. To find out more, please
visit our website (see backpage).

EnvironmentalPolicy

IndustrialLocation
Management Engineering
TheoryFunctional Paper Science Landscape
Material Strength
Science Informatics Marketing Theory
Biological Science Sports Medicine Regional Disaster
Prevention Planning
Tourism andSports Sociology
CultureDistributed SocietyStudies
Information Industry
City Planning Wood Science
Paper Manufacturing Engineering
Agricultural Manufacturin
Distribution Geology
Analytical Chemistry
Biosensing Political Economy Machine Learning
Basic Ecology

Matsuyama

Sustainability

Archaeology

AccountingInfrastructure
Career Design

Planning

Mathematical Economics

AgriculturalEconomics

SDGs Promotion OfficeSouth Ehime Fisheries
Research Center

Center for Disaster
Management Informatics
ResearchPaper Industry
Innovation Center

Research Center for
Regional Collaboration

Research Center for Asian
Archaeology of Industry
and Culture

Regional Cooperation
Center in Saijo

Regional Cooperation
Center in Nanyo

Regional Cooperation
Center in Chuyo

Civil Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Biochemical Engineering Exercise
Environmental Economics Physiology
Health and Sports Science

Composite Materials

Materials
Science
Regional Innovation
Sociology of Fisheries
Integrated Humanities
and Social Sciences
Aquaculture Environmental ScienceJapanese Economy
Control Engineering
Southeast Asian Area Studies Measurement Engineering
Management
Production Management Regional DevelopmentOrganization
Orthopaedic Surgery Consensus Building
Cultural Resource Utilization

Human Geography

Geography
Robotics
Information Management
Landscape Engineering
Fishery Biology and Environment
Rural and Fishing Village Development

Urban andRegional
Planning

Business Strategy
Urban-Rural Interactions
Fish Physiology
Dance Pedagogy
Inorganic Materials
Aquatic Ecolog
Microeconomics
Food Storage Science
Global Environmental
Studies
Logistics

Scenic spots in Ehime Prefecture

Dogo Hot Spring Spa

Matsuyama Castle

Regional collaboration
for regional futures

About the Faculty ofCollaborative Regional InnovationEstablished in 2016, CRI supports regional communities withdiverse stakeholders in co-creating sustainable regional futures
through excellent research and teaching. Across four
departments, over 50 faculty members welcome almost 200
students per year on their journey: to master the skill of servant
leadership through developing their own unique combination ofknowledge, abilities and experiences to face diverse regionalchallenges. A council of regional stakeholders including
administration, NPOs, businesses and residents oversees andsupports CRI’s management.

Mt. Ishizuchi

Shimanami Kaido

About Ehime University

Home to around 10,000 students and 2,300 faculty and staff
members, Ehime University (founded 1949) is a Japanese national
university in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, and the largest
university in the Shikoku region. Ehime University seeks to lead theregion and contribute to society from a global perspective.

Transdisciplinarity forRegional Challenges

Urgent and diverse regional challenges (from climate change todepopulation) require a new approach to higher education.
Transdisciplinary education empowers students at CRI to
discover pathways to solving the issues regional communities
face. From truly understanding challenges to developing
solutions adequate for the local context, students, faculty andstakeholders collaborate in a new form of cooperation between
science and society that transcends the traditional model ofproviding information to policy makers. Four years of study,
including a strong emphasis on fieldwork and internships, allow
students to acquire problem solving skills, perceive multiple
perspectives, apply specialized knowledge, cooperate with andbuild relationships of trust between diverse stakeholders andallies through servant leadership.

CollaborativeegionalRnnovationI
Faculty ofFaculty of Collaborative Regional Innovation,
3 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture 790-8577, Japan
Phone:089-927-8927 Fax:089-927-9287
https://w w w .cri .ehi me-u.ac.j p

1Integrating
humanities and sciences2

Practice
based education

3

Co
creating
regional futures

Solving complex regional challenges requires a holistic
understanding of the interactions between nature, society andeconomy. For CRI’s broad array of courses, our interdisciplinary
faculty draw upon and combine the most relevant knowledge andtheory across academic disciplines (including humanities,
environmental science, agriculture, medicine, engineering,
economics, physical education and many others).

From fieldwork to internships and project-based team learning, ourcourses expand the learning environment beyond the campus. As
part of CRI’s transdisciplinary approach, students collaborate
across departments and study years and work with diverse
stakeholders from local and regional communities on solving
real-world issues.

CRI supports regional communities to envision and create
sustainable futures with their diverse stakeholders. As “residentresearchers,” CRI faculty and students are deeply rooted in theircommunities and in the best position to understand and meet thesediverse needs.
,Sports&healthFisheries

Paper industry

Students

Integratedknowledge

Culture&tourism

Problem solving skills
Faculty

StakeServant
holders
leadership

Reforming the region through the power ofeconomy and management

Opening up future industries
through regional collaboration

Department ofDepartment ofIndustrial Management Course
Business Creation Course

Marine Products Science Course / Paper Industry Course
Manufacturing Course

Industrial Management

Industrial Innovation

Co-creating sustainable communities
for people and natureCultivating regional futuresfrom diverse resources

Department ofDepartment ofEnvironmental Sustainability Course
Regional Design & Disaster Prevention Course

Agricultural, Mountain and Fishing Villages Management Course
Cultural Resource Management Course
Sports and Health Management Course

Environmental Design

Awareness of Challenges

Economics &management

epartments & Courses

Manufacturing

esearchRegional Resource Management
ssociated Ehime University Offices &Centers

OpticalCommunication
Systems
Accounting
Information Theory
Applied Microbiology

Below are some of the topics
our faculty members work on.
To find out more, please visit
our website (see back page).

Environmental
PolicyIndustrialLocation
Management Engineering
TheoryFunctional Paper Science Landscape
Material Strength
Science Informatics Marketing Theory
Biological Science Sports Medicine Regional Disaster
Prevention Planning
Tourism andSports Sociology
CultureDistributed SocietyStudies
Information Industry
City Planning Wood Science
Paper Manufacturing Engineering
Agricultural Manufacturin
Distribution Geology
Analytical Chemistry
Biosensing Political Economy Machine Learning
Basic Ecology

Matsuyama

Sustainability

Archaeology

Accounting
Infrastructure
Career Design

Planning

Mathematical Economics

Agricultural
Economics

SDGs Promotion OfficeSouth Ehime Fisheries
Research Center

Center for Disaster
Management Informatics
ResearchPaper Industry
Innovation CenterResearch Center for
Regional Collaboration

Research Center for Asian
Archaeology of Industryand Culture

Regional Cooperation
Center in Saijo

Regional Cooperation
Center in Nanyo

Regional Cooperation
Center in Chuyo

Civil Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Biochemical Engineering Exercise
Environmental Economics Physiology
Health and Sports Science

Composite Materials

Rural
districts

Environmental
sustainability
Disasterprevention

Materials
Science
Regional Innovation
Sociology of Fisheries
Integrated Humanities
and Social Sciences
Aquaculture Environmental ScienceJapanese Economy
Control Engineering
Southeast Asian Area Studies Measurement Engineering
ManagementProduction Management Regional Development
Organization
Orthopaedic Surgery Consensus Building
Cultural Resource Utilization

Human Geography

Geography
Robotics
Information Management
Landscape Engineering
Fishery Biology and Environment
Rural and Fishing Village Development

Urban andRegionalPlanning

Regional Leadership

Business Strategy
Urban-Rural Interactions
Fish Physiology
Dance Pedagogy
Inorganic Materials
Aquatic Ecolog
Microeconomics
Food Storage Science
Global EnvironmentalStudies
Logistics