# President’s vision

**Source**: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/about/leadership/vision/
**Parent**: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/about/

## Mission statement

Under the spirit of academic freedom, Nagoya University creates new value through research and education to contribute to human happiness and wellbeing.

## Core vision

- An evolving world-class research university that builds towards the future.
- A university where people take pride and joy in learning and working.

## Strategic objectives

The university pursues six key objectives through 2027:

- Conduct creative research activities to explore truth and produce world-class intellectual achievements
- Foster courageous intellectuals with logical thinking and imagination through education that emphasizes self-motivation
- Contribute to human welfare, cultural development, and global industry through cutting-edge academic research and cultivating leaders
- Leverage regional characteristics to contribute to local development through multifaceted academic research activities
- Advance international academic collaboration and international student education, contributing to exchanges with Asia and the world
- Pursue new forms of the national university as a knowledge and innovation commons with the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System

## Four strategic pillars

### Education and human resource development

Seamless education from high school connection to graduate school and lifelong learning with international standards

### Research and value creation

World-class research outcomes through fundamental research that expands knowledge horizons and applied research that creates value for social implementation

### Social collaboration and industry-academia partnership

Creating new value rooted in one of the world’s leading industrial clusters, contributing to global and local problem-solving

### International expansion

New international development for the new normal era

## Institutional strengths

- Nobel Prize-level cutting-edge research capabilities (International Institute for Advanced Study)
- Industry-academia-government collaboration based in the Tokai manufacturing region (Future Society Creation Organization)
- Independent graduate schools for solving social issues (Graduate School of International Development, Graduate School of Environmental Studies)
- Asia expansion centered on Asian satellite campuses
- Doctoral education represented by leading and excellence graduate programs (Doctoral Program Promotion Organization)
- Women’s advancement initiatives including He For She

## Management approach

- Shared university vision through dialogue between leadership and faculty
- Strategic resource allocation based on total budget and business portfolio
- Organizational revitalization through diversity and inclusion across all university members

[President’s vision: Next Vision 2027 (Japanese)](https://www.nagoya-u.ac.jp/about-nu/upload_images/next2027.pdf)