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Value Design Education Center:VDEC

Mission

To cultivate the talent crucial for shaping Japan’s envisioned future, the VDEC offers educational approaches that enable students to acquire the competencies essential for generating social value. Our learning environment transcends traditional specialization and grade levels. Furthermore, we believe that social value creation education should encompass more than just entrepreneurship, spanning a wide range of educational opportunities from personal career development to instilling a mindset for value creation, thereby enhancing opportunities for co-creation and social implementation.

Building on our expertise and track record in entrepreneurship education, the VDEC develops and delivers a diverse array of programs by leveraging partnerships and networks with university-affiliated startup promotion organizations, local governments, and companies.

Additionally, through collaboration with international institutions, the VDEC can provide globally relevant education and co-creation opportunities tailored to evolving global dynamics, while also contributing to the proliferation of social value creation locally.

Activities

(1) Collaboration with on-campus startup promotion organizations; practical education utilizing startup support projects; career development support (in collaboration with the on-campus Career Support Center); practical on-campus programs that utilize the networks of both domestic and international organizations, such as local governments, entrepreneurs, and companies.

(2) Offering introductory lectures on social value creation to all students; developing and providing value creation education for undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students; systematizing, evaluating, improving, and developing competency-based programs using EntreComp; collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information on value creation education; providing education for high school students and working adults through high school-university collaboration.

(3) Handling public relations; establishing partnerships and networks with overseas entrepreneurs, companies, and local governments; developing and administering international programs; gathering and analyzing data regarding overseas entrepreneurial education; cooperating with local higher education institutions; extending educational opportunities to the local community; partnering with elementary, junior high, and high schools.

Academic Staff

Director Professor Hirokazu MORIYA (Graduate School of Engineering)
Vice Director Professor Toshiyuki INOMATA
Concurrent Member Professor Shuichi ISHIDA（Graduate School of Engineering）
Concurrent Member Specially Appointed Professor Yoshiaki IKENOUE（Graduate School of Engineering）
Concurrent Member Specially Appointed Professor Masahiko HAYASAKA（Head Office of Enterprise Partnerships）
Concurrent Member Associate Professor Yasunari TAKAURA（Graduate School of Economics and Management）
Concurrent Member Associate Professor Stephaneyu MATSUSHITA（Graduate School of Engineering）
Concurrent Member Associate Professor Yasunori YAMANOUCHI
Concurrent Member Specially Appointed Associate Professor Takeshi KATO（Graduate School of Engineering）
Concurrent Member Specially Appointed Associate Professor Takeshi KOIKE
Concurrent Member Senior Assistant Professor Yukiko MOMMA

Address

41 Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8576 Japan

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