Message from The President
Kyushu University aims to prosper together with the city where it is based and keep growing so that local citizens
will take pride in us and rely on us as a global center of knowledge, one of the leading university.
In addressing the various challenges faced by modern society, Kyushu University strive for open innovation andﬁnd ways to overcome challenges through industry, government, academia and citizens collaborations.
Kyushu University has taken special note of issues related to energy and climate change, two major challenges
that have faced modern society from the beginning. We founded a hydrogen research and education hub on campus
to promote applications of hydrogen energy, the ultimate clean energy, after a university project was adopted as a
21st Century COE Program by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. In the following
decade, the university participated in national projects aimed at a low-carbon society in cooperation with Fukuoka
Prefecture, the Fukuoka Strategy Conference for Hydrogen Energy, and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial
Science and Technology, accumulating numerous achievements in this ﬁeld. We have engaged in a variety of actions,including facility arrangement, the construction of exclusive facilities, the installation of equipment for advanced
experiments and the enhancement of the research staﬀ on Ito Campus. We now have International Institute for
Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, four research centers (International Research Center for Hydrogen Energy,
Research Center for Hydrogen Industrial Use and Storage, Inamori Frontier Research Center, Next-Generation Fuel
Cell Research Center) and Department of Hydrogen Energy Systems, and are delighted to be making steadyprogress in growing to be the world's only top-level research hub in this ﬁeld.
Societal moves toward increased hydrogen use are accelerating. We have a strong need forthe development of safe hydrogen infrastructure and for the popularization of next-generationfuel cells that are eﬃcient, long-lasting and inexpensive, to realize a clean-energy-oriented
society with fuel cells as a core.
On the new Ito campus, various initiatives are being developed to build a future society
model as a demonstration experiment campus to create new value. Based on this hydrogen
research and education hub, we will create science and technology innovation from theresearch and educational activities on the whole of university, and we will strive to realize
a hydrogen energy society on Ito campus.
Chiharu Kubo, President, Kyushu University

Kyusyu University Fuel Cell & Hydrogen ProjectHydrogen Energy
DevelopmentForum

Fukuoka Hydorgen Town
(Concentration of installations
150 units of stationary Fuel Cells)(International Conference)

Hydrogen Highway(Infrastructure for Hydrogenfuel cell vehicles are available)(World Premier International ResearchCenter Initiative)(COE for next-generationfuel cell research)

Depaertment of Hydrogen
Energy Systems
Center-of-Innovation(COI)

Renewable Energy Advanced
Technology Exhibition(Technology Exhibition)

International Institute for
Next-Generation FuelCarbon-Neutral Energy Reserch Cell Reserch Center(Unique graduate school)

Kyushu University Ito Campus(For technological and social innovations)

ExpansionMore than 300 researchers,ca. 15,000m2 research area ,for fuel cells and hydrogen technologies
International Research Centerfor Hydrogen Energy(Incubator of Hydrogen and FC Technologies)

COE Program:

Integration Technology of
Mechanical Systems forHydrogen Utilization

2004(Research Center for Hydrogen
related materials)

Inamori Frontier
Research Center(Scientific research for future science)

Fukuoka Strategy Conference for Hydrogen Energy

21stCentury

2003

HYDROGENIUS

2005(More than > 600 companies involved, the world’s largest Industryacademia-government project in the hydrogen energy field)

Future Energy
Demonstration Facility(For demonstration projects)

Hydrogen Energy Test andResearch Center, HyTReC(Support center for “Hydrogen industry”)

Excellence in Leadership Award(IPHE)(May2010, Germany, International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel
Cells in Economy(international Ministry-Level Conference))

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