WIPO GREEN: Tokai National Higher Education and Research System Announces Their Participation

November 17, 2020

Mr. Tomoki Sawai, Director of the WIPO Japan Office, recently visited the Tokai National Higher Education and Research System (THERS), a national university corporation made up of Gifu University and Nagoya University. He attended a meeting there with Seiichi Matsuo (THERS Chancellor and President of Nagoya University) and Hisataka Moriwaki (THERS Vice Chancellor and President of Gifu University). The meeting enabled an exchange of views on the role that innovation can play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It also served as the occasion for Chancellor Matsuo to announce that THERS would become a partner of WIPO GREEN, the WIPO platform to promote the transfer of environmental technologies.

WIPO GREEN was created in 2013, to help expand adoption and use of environmentally friendly technology to aid in the future transfer to a low-carbon world.

The public-private partnership WIPO GREEN works to create connections among innovators of environmental technology, seekers of environmental technology, public and private bodies backing environmentally friendly technology, and other related fields of green innovation. The pillar of WIPO GREEN is its database of more than 3,800 registered environmental technologies and more than 1,500 users.

Up to now, WIPO GREEN’s partners have included over 100 government agencies, industrial associations, universities, and other bodies, but this is the first time that a Japanese national university corporation (a new status for national universities since 2004) has joined.

WIPO will continue to welcome participation by many partners from Japan and to actively support WIPO GREEN’s actions. By striving to solve environmental problems this way, we contribute to achieving the SDGs.