News & Events
2025/9/10
Associate Professor Masahide Koda and Vice President Atsufumi Yokoi Present...
2025/8/27
Vice President Yokoi Delivers Keynote Address at UN University Official...
2025/7/22
Okayama University Participates in Earth Charter +25 International Conference at...
2025/6/19
Okayama University Visits UN Tourism Regional Office to Propose Collaboration...
2025/6/17
Okayama University Students Participate in Nagasaki Peace-Preneur Forum with Youth...
2025/6/10
Vice President Yokoi Invited to Attend UK National Day at...
2025/6/10
UN Youth Representative Visits Okayama University UNESCO Chair
2025/5/29
UNESCO Chairholder Vice President Yokoi and Vice-Chair Professor Hiroki Fujii...
2025/5/13
President Nasu and Okayama University Delegation Pay Courtesy Visit to...
Partnerships
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York University
York University in Canada, which promotes the SDGs throughout the university, is one of the top universities in the world in terms of SDG initiatives, and is ranked in the top 100 in THE University Impact Ranking, a well-known global ranking of SDGs.
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US Department of State
The U.S. Department of State administers the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program in 15 languages around the world, and the University offers intensive Japanese language and culture programs to top students selected by the Department.
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UPEACE
Created by UN General Assembly Resolution 35/55, the University for Peace has been training leaders for peace for the past four decades.
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Earth Charter
The Earth Charter International Headquarters is located at the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica, Central America, where the UNESCO Chair on ESD is located.
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University of Hawaii
The University of Hawaii in the U.S. is one of the world's leading universities in the field of oceanography, and is collaborating with the Ushimado coastal laboratory attached to the Faculty of Science at Okayama University.
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Okayama University
The Global Engagement Center (GEC) of Okayama University was established in April 2025 through the institutional development of the Global Engagement Office, which had previously been formed on a pilot basis. Guided by the concept of Internationalization in Higher Education for Society (IHES), the Center functions as an “action tank” that promotes integrated social impact across three communities—campus, global, and local—both within and beyond the university.
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UNU
The General Assembly ordered a feasibility study and appointed a panel of experts to work closely with UNESCO in examining the potential for building such an institution. The panel submitted a report to the UN Economic and Social Council in September
1972, and in December 1972 the General Assembly adopted the decision to establish the United Nations University (UNU), thereby formally establishing the world’s first international university.
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APCEIU
Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) is a UNESCO Category 2 Centre established in 2000 by the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Korea and UNESCO to promote and develop Education for International
Understanding (EIU), currently regarded as Global Citizenship Education (GCED).
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UNESCO Beijing
Director Oliveira said, “The ESD activities and other initiatives toward achieving the SDGs have the highest priority also at UNESCO. We would like to deepen cooperation across the entire East Asian region which is under the jurisdiction of the UNESC
O Beijing Cluster Office”.
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UNESCO Bangkok
Since 1961, UNESCO Bangkok has had a dual role as both the Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education and as a Cluster Office in the Asia-Pacific region.
As a regional bureau for education, UNESCO Bangkok provides technical expertise and assistance, and it serves advisory, knowledge production and sharing, and monitoring and evaluation functions to assist the Asia-Pacific Member States, UNESCO field
offices and the antenna office in the area of education.
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GAFC
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One Young World
One Young World is one of the world's largest annual gatherings of the next generation of young leaders representing over 190 countries.
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Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens
The Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens is a Quasi-International Organization based in Vienna, Austria. The Centre was established in January 2018 and is co-chaired by Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the UN (2007 ? 2016) and by Heinz Fischer
, 11th President of the Republic of Austria (2004 ? 2016). The Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens is an independent nonprofit organization under Austrian law.
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UNCTAD
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is the central institution of the United Nations that comprehensively addresses trade and development, as well as related issues of finance, investment, technology and sustainable development.
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UNESCO
In consequence whereof they do hereby create the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the purpose of advancing, through the educational and scientific and cultural relations of the peoples of the world, the objectives
of international peace and of the common welfare of mankind for which the United Nations Organization was established and which its Charter proclaims.
Okayama University supports the Sustainable Development Goals