RCE Chubu-2010

1. Leadership, Vision and Objectives
1. Vision of your RCE: 
The objective of RCE Chubu is to bring all related problems and challenges together, and to solve them through the communication and mutual learning among stakeholders. Therefore, each project of the above-mentioned three major activities consists of research, publishing, and educational activities and programs.
2. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
4
b. Transactional : 
4
c. Transformational : 
2
2. Social Network
3. Core partners: 
Chubu University
Chubu ESD-RCE Promotion Network
Nagoya Open university of Environment
Nagoya University
Gifu University
Environmental Partnership Office Chubu
Mie University


Aichi Gakuin University
Aichi Prefectural University
National Institute for Fusion science
Nagoya Institute of Technology
Nagoya City University
Nagoya Zokei University
Nihon Fukushi University
Meijo University


Chubu University Daiichi High School
Haruhigaoka High School
Haruhigaoka Junior High School


San-En-Nanshin Center for Regional Collaboration, Aichi University
Kinsyozan Fossil Association
Association of Ise Mikawa bay basins studies Chubu University
Association of Multi-cultural and Gender equality studies Chubu University


Aichi Prefectural Government
Gifu Prefectural Government
Mie Prefecture
Kasugai City
Nagoya City Hall
Chubu Regional Environment Office
Chubu Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry METI
Chubu District Transport Bureau ,Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport And Tourism
Chubu Regional Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport And Tourism
Tokai Regional Agricultural Administration Office, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries


Children's Club for Love The Earth
EXPO 2005 Volunteer Center
Ai-Chikyu Platform
ASK-NET
IseMikawa.net
Eco-Design Forum for Civic Society
Eco Platform TOKAI
NPO Kankyo Shimin Yokkaichi
Kachigawa-Ekimae Shopping Street Promotion Association
Citizens Environmental Foundation
Gifu NPO Center
Gifu Industrial Hemp Association
International Green Citizen Association (IGCA)
Alaska, its spirits and Michio Hoshino
Sanrakuro
Support Center for Sustainable Regional Design
DEE21(Digital Economy & Enterprise for the 21st. Century)
Nagoya International Center
Nagoya UNESCO
Nissin Nature Observation Association
Japan Oldest Stone Museum
Nature Club Tokai
Fujimae Ramsar Society
Fuyumizu-Tanbo Chita Promotion Network
Homies
Yamazakigawa River Green Map
World History Foundation


Environmental Partnership Organizing Club
4. Cooperation and communication : 
RCE Chubu takes all the institutions and individuals who have the will to create a sustainable region and to learn from each other as our partners. Therefore, we do not have any strict regulations or standards to accept or reject members, apart from the will, to be a member of the RCE Chubu and conduct ESD in the region.
5. Facilitating development
Connections / Partnership with
UN institutions
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
We could get information about international conferences.
Other international organizations
yes/no: 
No
Other RCEs
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
Preparation for biodiversity
COP10 with domestic RCEs
International experts
yes/no: 
No
Expert organizations at national, regional and global levels
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
The institutions, especially the institutions of higher education, are composed by experts in various fields.
who develop joint activities within their-own institutions and across them through the CESDPN.
6. Social network
a. Information network (exchanging information, e.g. building up a database for SD projects): 
2
b. Knowledge network (creating knowledge by collaboration, e.g. finding synergies between partners by experience exchange): 
4
c. Innovation network (creating innovation by co-creation and shared vision,e.g. investigating new solutions for challenges by f: 
4
3. Participation
7. Participation of actors : 
20~30 people
8. Participation opportunities
a.Informational participation (people get informed about decisions and actions): 
6
b.Consultation participation (people are asked about their needs and opinions): 
2
c.Decision influencing participation (people are involved in decision making processes): 
2
4. Education & Learning
Connections / Partnership with
a. Access to quality basic education
yes/no: 
No
b. Training for different sectors of the society
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
Information sharing
c. Public awareness
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
Symposiums and forums
d. Reorientation of existing education
yes/no: 
No
12. Educational activities
a. Theory (communicating of ESD principles, strategies, examples): 
2
b. Discussion (knowledge exchange and mutual learning on ESD): 
6
c. Interactive & Multidimensional (Action oriented learning, e.g. workshops, intergenerational, interdisciplinary,…) : 
2
5. Research Integration
13. Research & Development (R&D): 
Since RCE Chubu has many Universities as members of RCE, each university has its own projects of R&D.
14. Research partners : 
Chubu University, Nagoya University, Mie University, Gifu University
15. Description of research
a. Disciplinary (focusing on one discipline of research, e.g. social aspects) : 
3
b. Interdisciplinary (taking interrelations between disciplines into account, e.g. economic effects on the environment and peopl: 
4
c. Transdisciplinary (involving affected people into your research activities, e.g. interviews with affected people): 
3
Tagging
Continent: 
Asia-Pacific
Country: 
Japan
Region: 
Asia-Pacific
Type: 
Project Reports