“iUniversity” will be created

　An ICT school “iUniversity” will be created.

　Talented personnel, who will initiate ICT based innovation, will be trained in a business-academic collaboration.

   The year 2020, in Tokyo.

　I will serve as its president.

　　Talented personnel will initiate ICT-based innovation. Using the warp thread that is ICT, and the weft thread that is creativity, and settle them on the pillar of education. It will use a project-based training method in collaborations with the business world.

　The warp thread that is ICT.

　Programing, information processing, etc., the basis for the information society for a 3^rd industrial revolution, and then the IoT, AI, security, big data, block chain, etc., the foundation for a 4^th industrial revolution will be shared.

　Their active participation will not only be limited to the ICT industry−Content. Media, finance, manufacturing, retail, tourism, education, medicine, agriculture - ICT is the heart of all industries. It supports the blood flow of all.

　The weft thread is a liberal arts-professional education.

　In other words, creative, design-conscious innovators will be trained while using ICT tech as a basis. Management, policy and more will be instilled, and the integration of arts and sciences will create immediately effective members of a productive society.

　Using the skill to weave the above threads will nurture a project base with all students interning through collaborations with the business world. iUniversity is a pre-enterprises college by preparing numerous places where are willing to host interns and projects, as well as by providing learning on the job at OJT college. With the aim of founding a college, we will take up the challenge of having all students have internships and find employment while enrolled, or by implementing an “on-the-job business learning” mechanism.

　As it is an IT college, the majority of its courses can be taken online. You can learn from anywhere. It is on the cutting edge of flip teaching and adaptive learning. Virtual courses by world famous professors, researchers, specialists will also be provided. It is a virtual and real learning environment.

　The courses will be fulfilled in English, and having students who are able to conduct business in English. Our style will not be having English taught to students, but to have students learning in English. I also anticipate there will be many exchange students.

　iUniversity will also make use of National Strategic Special Zones. The Campus will be founded in Sumida, the Eastern part of Tokyo, and a satellite campus will be built in the special Ward of pop & tech, Takeshiba CiP in Tokyo Bay area.

  Communities created by digital enterprises, international organizations, Keio University and Stanford University etc. will be opened in 2020. As a hub that works to ease restrictions related to research, business, new businesses, etc., this school will also take a central role in of taking up the challenge of innovation.

　 “Enjoy change, think for yourself, create innovation” is our education philosophy. Half of all the jobs will be lost to AI and robots in the future, while jobs that did not exist until now will be created. From now on, what the next generation must possess is based on the recognition that unforeseen changes will happen and an attitude and skills to delight in them, face the challenge and overcome it.

　The “i” in “iUniversity” is: the “i” in information; the i in “innovation”; the i in “intelligence”; the “i” in “I”.

“I” will create a school.

Overview:

● iUniversity (iU)

● School Corporation Electronics Academy

   (founded in the year 1951, with 110,000 highly skilled graduates)

● 26 full time professors, 800 students

● Main campus is approximately 5,000㎡ in Sumida, Tokyo

　 Satellite campus in Takeshiba National Strategic Special Zones  (CiP)

●    Opening: Spring 2020