Research Center for “Co-JUNKAN” Platform towards beyond “Zero-Carbon”

1.1 Data Processing Infrastructure (Cloud, Large-Scale Data Processing Systems, Machine Learning Frameworks, Databases, Data Structure)
1.4 Visualization, Visual Analytics
1.5 Data Sharing, Data Co-Creation (Search, Data Linkage, Data Authoring. Meta-data Creating)
2.3 Enviroment and Energy (Energy System, Renewable Energy, Ecosystem, Material Cycle, Life Cycle)
2.13 Public Policy, Economy (Policy Evaluation, Finance, Real Estate, Insurance)
2.14 Education (E-Learning, Educational Contents, Remote Education, Learning Management)

Yasunori Kikuchi

Institute for Future Initiatives

Associate Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives

For the sustainable development of the region, it is necessary to aim for “Beyond ‘Zero Carbon’”, where the activities for net zero carbon lead to regional wealth in terms of the environment and ecosystems, food production, employment, and the development of traditions and culture. In order to realize this, it is critically important to design the optimum system for the specific conditions of the region using the latest scientific and technological approaches, and to collaborate among local people with local knowledge, researchers with cutting-edge knowledge, engineers and companies with technology and implementation capabilities, in other words, industry-academia-government collaboration. This center develops and implements the Co-JUNKAN platform, which enables technology, knowledge and people to circulate organically and sophisticatedly among industry-academia-government. As an approach to problem-solving through the use of data, we are developing the RE-CODE information platform, which links technologies and regions and accelerates social implementation. RE-CODE will be implemented at the co-learning fields, where diverse people of different generations and positions can learn from each other, enabling a preemptive vision of future society and its realization. In particular, the development and regional demonstration of the technical systems essential for Beyond ‘Zero Carbon’, such as Co-learning practices, transport and energy, agriculture and forestry GX, energy supply and demand structures, and financial ecosystem to support the implementation of these technologies will be carried out. The project will be implemented at regional satellites in Iwate, Wakayama, Sado Island, Tanegashima, Queensland and other regions.

This project is one of the centers of the “JST open innovation platform for industry-academia co-creation (COI-NEXT)” (JPMJPF2003).

The overview of Research Center for “Co-JUNKAN” Platform towards beyond “Zero-Carbon”
https://coinext.ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/index.html

The concept of RE-CODE, a data platform that links regions and technology and accelerates social implementation
https://coinext.ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/index.html

Research collaborators

Tohoku University
Chiba University
Shinshu University
Wakayama University
Iwate Prefectural University
Shibaura Institute of Technology
Waseda University
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences
Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
Shinko Sugar Mill Co., Ltd.
Solariant Capital LLC
Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
SequencEnergy, Inc.
DG Network
TAKUMA Co., Ltd.
JGC Corporation
Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd.
TSUNEISHI Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Ltd.
SANKI Engineering Co., Ltd.
Sumitomo Corporation
Engineering Advancement Association of Japan
Digital Grid Consortium
Iwate Pref.
Wakayama Pref.
Sado City
Nishinoomote City
Nakatane Town
Minamitane Town
Queensland (Australia)

Related publications

Yasunori Kikuchi, Miwa Nakai, Yuichiro Kanematsu, Kazutake Oosawa, Tatsuya Okubo, Yuko Oshita, Yasuhiro Fukushima, Application of technology assessments into co-learning for regional transformation: A case study of biomass energy systems in Tanegashima, Sustainability Science, DOI: 10.1007/s11625-020-00801-1
兼松祐一郎，大久保達也，菊池康紀，農林業地域における産業共生の計画プロセスのアクティビティモデルとデータモデル，化学工学論文集，43(5), (2017), 347-357. DOI: 10.1252/kakoronbunshu.43.347. (In Japanese)