2017 Volume 69 Issue 1 Pages 19-33
The aim of this paper is to raise the issues of seminar activities concerned in community collaboration projects to revitalize farming and mountain villages. Iwate Prefectural University is a public university that actively promotes community collaboration projects. Their Research and Community Collaboration Headquarters is essential for community collaboration activities as it makes necessary arrangements between the university and its seminars. Our seminar has published a series of local community survey reports over a long period of time in order to make use of commissioned and subsidized projects for farming and mountain villages;these reports have helped the laboratory find many local participants in the early stages of collaboration projects. Our small seminar has conducted flexible activities in phases. These activities cover many communities, which have prompted them to take the first step toward revitalization. This had various spillover effects on the autonomy of local residents and the education of the university’s students. This shows that the university’s seminars are suitable key players in community collaboration activities. Their efforts, ingenuity and cooperation with the Research and Community Collaboration Headquarters will make it possible to propose projects for revitalizing farming and mountain villages in a short period of time, and even help local communities carry out these projects. Supporting the sustainable efforts of local communities requires the efforts of the university and the faculty to support the seminars and the university’s continuous collaboration with the local communities.
