Online Exchange with Overseas Universities 2024-2025

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In order to further build ”international cooperation in consumer policy,” Tokushima Prefecture has been holding a student-led online exchange (presentations and discussions) between universities in the prefecture and overseas universities since FY2021.

This year, as a continuation of the theme used in FY2022, each university will create a handbook on the theme ”The Ways of Ethical Consumption in Food ~Our Consumer Behavior Declaration~,” which is closely related to the SDGs, in anticipation of the National Convention on Food and Nutrition Education to be held in Tokushima in June 2025.

Faculty members from the participating schools, the coordinator, and advisor, gathered to discuss this year’s exchange theme, etc.

During the discussion, the faculty members shared their opinions on how to create this year’s handbooks based on those created in 2022, such as a handbook focusing on ”food,” which is deeply related to ethical consumption, by utilizing the characteristics of each country and school, and including contents in the handbook that lead to ”practice” with a view to field work, centering on ”what can be done in schools.” 

Each school presented issues related to their field of study, and ethical consumption as considered through their experiences in their respective schools, then exchanged ideas with each other.

The contents of the presentations showed the unique characteristics of each school, such as devising actions and recipes that students can ”put into practice” in their daily lives; using water servers instead of using plastic bottles with the environment and economy in mind; supporting agricultural producers through fieldwork; using AI in ethical consumption; and the sin of greenwashing, etc.

The coordinator and the advisor commented, ”It is important to clarify the target audience and appeal to them,” and ”Suggestions from consumers to society, such as ’things we can do in the neighborhood’ will lead to the realization of an ethical society, which is everyone’s goal. I hope that you can work to complete a more refined handbook through what we have discussed.”

At the next exchange meeting, each university will present an outline of their handbooks based on the exchange of ideas at this meeting.