Diagnose our society with risk, forecast our future with resilience.
Because of instability of social situations recently, contingencies we can’t handle with conventional way of thinking and methods of risk management occur often, new concept beyond the risk management is aspired. In these situation, as backgrounds, resilience which respond flexibly to the contingency and changing situations and is an ability to maintain, provide, and resilient social functions desired from people is paid attention as a new concept for alternative risk.
To respond these trends, Resilience Research and Education Promotion Consortium was established in cooperation with companies and research institutions and university on December 26th, 2017. Consortium would hold seminars, lectures, workshops, and symposiums and so on in fields of Risk and Resilience, with exploring new research areas, would be a base of operation of new degree program which is plan to be established in the University of Tsukuba in cooperation with knowledge of associated institutions, and would be the foundation of fostering academic and global human resources.
Diagram of Concept
List of associated institutions
- SECOM Co., LTD.
- Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP)
- NEC Corporation
- 3M Japan Limited
- DRI Japan
- Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI)
- Japan Automobile Research Institute (JARI)
- Electronic Navigation Research Institute (ENRI)
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
- National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED)
- National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan (JNIOSH)
- National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (Taiwan)
- University of Tsukuba
History
| March 9th, 2018 | Joint Press Release |
| December 26th, 2017 | Resilience Research and Education Promotion Consortium has established 11 associated institutions are: SECOM, DNP, NEC, DRI Japan, CRIEPI, JARI, ENRI, AIST, NIED, JNIOSH, University of Tsukuba |
Activity History
| November 27th, 2018 | Steering Committee and tours at DNP |
| September 18th, 2018 | Steering Committee and tours at AIST 3M Japan Limited participated in this consortium, and the number of associated institutions became 13. |
| July 19th, 2018 | Steering Committee and tours at SECOM |
| May 25th, 2018 | Steering Committee and tours at NIED National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (Taiwan) participated in this consortium, and the number of associated institutions became 12. |
| March 9th, 2018 | Steering Committee |