Aichi Smart Sustainable City Co-Creation Challenge
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Japan's leading city that has led the world's "manufacturing” wave, e.g. head quarter of Toyota exists, centered on the automobile, aerospace, and robot industries. Biggest contributor to Japan's largest shipment of manufactured goods for 42 consecutive years.
Ecosystem Partner
NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS), plays a pivotal role in advancing innovation and entrepreneurship at NUS and beyond. It actively promotes entrepreneurship and cultivates global mind-sets and talents through the synergies of experiential entrepreneurial education, active industry partnerships, holistic entrepreneurship support and catalytic entrepreneurship outreach.
Concept

Aichi Prefecture will lead the sustainable future for its citizens and the world.
For 42 consecutive years, Aichi Prefecture has been leading Japan in the value of manufactured goods shipped, and continues to lead the world in manufacturing, especially in the automotive, aerospace and robotics industries.
Aichi Prefecture is known for its love of knowledge. We have explored and created new knowledge to share to the world,. Today we continue to produce leaders with new knowledge. As disruptive technologies and startups emerge from around the world, Aichi Prefecture will continue to challenge itself with passion for the future of the next generation. We are calling for partners from around the world to share in the creation of new "knowledge" about the four challenges for Aichi Prefecture to become the Smart Sustainable City.
Attractiveness & Opportunity of Aichi

Rich natural capital such as the sea and mountains
(pictured here on Sakushima)

A major agricultural powerhouse, including No. 1 in Japan in terms of flower shipments

Festival-loving culture
(pictured in the photo is the Toyohama Tai (Red snapper) Festival)

No. 1 in Japan in terms of exported manufactured goods (42 consecutive years)
Toyota Motor Corporation Headquarters

Central region of Tokai where 15 million people lives

Selected as a "Startup Ecosystem Global Hub City" by the Cabinet Office
Co-Creation Opportunity
Companies whose ideas are adopted can conduct experiments in collaboration with Aichi Prefecture, ICMG, and challenge owners.
Selected winners will have opportunities to apply for POC/Project Implementation Support Funding of approximately SG$100,000
Schedule
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Open for entries
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2
First Sharing & Co-Learning Session Online
Sharing details of the program's challenge statement (assignment content)
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3
Second Sharing and Co-Learning Session Online
Sharing details of the program's challenge statement (assignment content)
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Entry Deadline
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5
Announcement of the Results of the Application Review
First Sharing & Co-Learning Session Online -
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Co-creation Session
Explore the possibilities of co-creation with each Challenge Statement owner and co-organizers
(Aichi Prefectural Government and ICMG) -
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Demo Day in Aichi Prefecture
Presentation of the final results of the program and networking
Events

First Sharing and Co-Learning Session
Sharing details of the program's challenge statement (assignment content)

Second Sharing and Co-Learning Session
Sharing details of the program's challenge statement (assignment content)
For more events, please refer to ICMG Innovation Platform.
Challenge Owner

Tetsuya Kimura
Asahi Tekko

Takeshi Kurono
Asahi Tekko

Atsushi Ikuta
Asahi Tekko

Hideyuki Aikyo
Aishin Seiki

Kazuhiko Ishiguro
Minamichita Town

Junpei Takada
Minamichita Town

Kenta Tsutsumida
Minamichita Town

Yutaka Miyashita
Central Japan International Airport

Masahisa Ichino
Central Japan International Airport
Program Co-creator

Yoshiaki Tsujimoto
Aichi Prefectural Government
Startup Division

Akihiro Mori
Aichi Prefectural Government
Startup Division

Makoto Kanemaru
Aichi Prefectural Government
Startup Division

Yusuke Tsuji
ICMG Singapore /
ICMG Japan

Veerappan Swaminathan
ICMG Co-creation Partner

Daisuke Tanaka
ICMG Japan

Hidefumi Takei
ICMG Singapore

Clarence Tan
ICMG Singapore

Tomoya Sato
ICMG Japan

Ryosuke Adachi
ICMG Japan

Iris Koh
ICMG Singapore
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