2017 Volume 53 Issue 1 Pages 3-7
When the future directions for regional vitalization and sustainable development are discussed, how to create key persons with special skills for solving regional problems through partnership and collaboration methods with regional stakeholders would become an essential issue. Since the 2015 academic year, the Faculty of Regional Collaboration, Kochi University, Japan has been engaged in a practice-based learning [PBL] program through regional collaboration to create key persons with the skills needed for solving regional problems based on collaborative methods. In this paper, the current situation and future directions of the PBL program by Kochi University were described to give basic information for discussing sustainable management of PBL efforts in Japan.
