◆Opening Ceremony for MEDi, the Open Innovation Hub Facility at Kochi Medical School

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 As a hub for open innovation involving Kochi University and external private-sector organizations, we leased office space in Kochi City and established the Medical School Innovation Hub (MEDi) in June 2021.

 We are pleased to announce that the opening ceremony for MEDi will be held online as follows.

 Going forward, we will utilize this facility as a shared office and multipurpose space for the university and external organizations, including private-sector entities, and actively leverage it as a hub for disseminating knowledge and information.

 Date and Time: Friday, August 27, 2021, starting at 3:00 p.m. (scheduled to last approximately one hour)

 Headquarters: 3rd Floor, Chikami Building, 1-6-3 Otesuji, Kochi City

 Format: Online

 Program (Tentative):

  Part 1: Presentation by the Dean of Medical School

  Part 2: Presentations by Stakeholders

  Part 3: Discussion on the MEDi Policy

 Expected attendees:

   Hiroyuki Inoue, Vice Governor of Kochi Prefecture

  (Seiya Okazaki, Acting Mayor of Kochi)

   Soichiro Ueda, Mayor of Muroto

   Tomihiro Nakahira, Mayor of Sukumo

   Muneo Oishi, Member of the Kochi Prefectural Assembly

  (Katsuhiko Kaiji, Acting President and CEO, Kochi Bank)

   -Attendees from our university-

   Koichi Honke, Director (Research, Evaluation, and Medical Affairs)

   Shigefumi Suganuma, Medical School

Manabe, General Affairs and Planning Section, Medical School Administration Department

Phone: 088-880-2218

Email: is02@kochi-u.ac.jp

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