In the Hokkaido University Sustainability Declaration, the University will create every opportunity for every member of the university community, including students, faculty, staff, and administration to improve their capabilities through educational programs on sustainability including on-campus training and systems to support self-development. The University encourages members of our community to realize that their activities are connected to sustainability and strive to create an environment in which they can maximize their potential by acting with pride and dignity. Through this the University will promote on-campus unity through sustainability as our common language, to improve the University’s overall capabilities, and achieve our ambition of becoming “Hokkaido University that contributes to solving global challenges.” We strive to foster ethics of integrity and fairness as critical values to achieving sustainability. Through these efforts, we aim to deepen our contribution to solving global challenges, to become a core institution within our community, and to cultivate engagement and empathy with the world outside of our university gates, thereby further increasing the University’s social impact.
In addition, Hokkaido University has published “Hokkaido University’s Aspiration through the Realization of the Sustainability Declaration,” which presents four key aspirations the University aims to achieve.