Next Generation
- Major Initiatives
- Innovations Inspired by Nature Research Support Program
- Past grant research themes
SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group will provide quality education as outlined in SDGs Goal 4 through programs that leverage its manufacturing, products, and other characteristics, and promote lifelong educational opportunities.
Aiming for a society in which children who will form the next generation can develop and healthily grow into adulthood, we are implementing career educational programs for elementary, middle, and high school as well as tertiary students that leverage the characteristics of our business activities.
Helping to Build Local Communities in Which Children Can Develop and Healthily Grow into Adulthood
Aiming for a society in which children who will form the next generation can develop and healthily grow into adulthood, we are implementing career educational programs for elementary, middle, and high school as well as tertiary students that leverage the characteristics of our business activities. This initiative is being conducted for children to acquire the knowledge, skills, and approaches that will lead to them living independent lives as members of society. SEKISUI CHEMICAL Group is advancing a wide range of activities such as field trip lessons that include science classes given by Company employees as well as online classes to learn about the SDGs through the Company’s products and manufacturing.
List of Next-generation Education Initiatives
| Activity | Aim | Target | Cooperation | Division of roles | Continuity | Result 1 (Single-year fiscal 2022) (Number of people, etc.) | Result 2 (Total number of people, etc., including results from fiscal 2022) | Developability | |
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| 1 | New TOKUYAMA SEKISUI Children's Chemistry Classroom (TOKUYAMA SEKISUI CO., LTD.) |
Convey the allure of chemistry to future generations of children | Preschool to elementary school students | Local social welfare council | Organizer | 2022～ | 83 | 83 | Implementation on a continuous basis Establishment of targets and staging methods |
| 2 | New Summer Vacation Carpentry Classroom (Kyushu Sekisui Heim Industry Co., Ltd.) |
Raise environmental awareness among future generations of children and pass on cultural skills through the practice of craftsman techniques | Elementary school students | Local governments | Coorganizer | 2022～ | 15 | 15 | Implementation on a continuous basis |
| 3 | Support for exhibiting at "Work Festival in Yamatokoriyama" (Nara Sekisui Co, Ltd.) | Enable children to experience work in order to acquire new knowledge and make discoveries while learning about the various occupations and companies that exist today | Elementary school students | Local industrial park and governments | Coorganizer | 2019～ | 272 | 375 | Implementation on a continuous basis |
| 4 | New Onsite classes at elementary schools (Sekisui Chemical Hokkaido Co., Ltd.) |
Enable children to experience plant work in order to acquire new knowledge and make discoveries while learning about the various occupations and companies that exist today | Elementary school students | Local elementary school | Organizer | 2022～ | 42 | 42 | Expansion of target schools for implementation |
| 5 | SDGs education utilizing Edu Town SDGs electronic teaching materials | Next-generation children will learn about SDGs through manufacturing and develop the ability to think and act for themselves in solving social issues. | Elementary school upper grade years to junior high school students | Producer of teaching materials | ・ Platform construction ・ Provision of teaching materials ・ Alliance participation |
2018～ | 17,238 page views (SEKISUI CHEMICAL-related pages only) | 58,386 page views (SEKISUI CHEMICAL-related pages only) | ・ Collaboration with multiple companies through corporate alliances. We will continue to increase the number of companies ・ Part of Web content made into a booklet and continues to be distributed free of charge to elementary and junior high schools nationwide. ・ Planning to further expand web content |
| 6 | New Work experience (Ibaraki Sekisui Heim) |
Build an understanding of the importance of work among future generations of youths, and provide the knowledge and skills required for employment | Junior high school students | Local junior high schools | Organizer | 2022～ | 12 | 12 | Implementation on a continuous basis |
| 7 | Online lessons to learn about SDGs | Under the theme of the SDGs, for which there is an increasing need in schools, we will utilize our unique expertise to bring about improvements in the next generation of young people's knowledge and ability to take action needed to solve problems toward the creation of a sustainable society. | Junior high school students | Education support company | Organizer (Teaching material provision and lecturers) | 2021～ | 121 | 351 | ・ Online lessons can be conducted even during the COVID-19 pandemic ・ Establishment of an operating system ・ Fiscal 2022 Awards for Companies Promoting Experience Activities for Youths, Judging Committee Honorable Mention |
| 8 | Chemistry Classroom Project (High Performance Plastics Company Minase Site) | Raise the next generation of children's interest in and passion for chemistry. | Junior high school students | Local junior high schools and junior high schools from which requests were received | Organizer | 2008～ | 1,687 | 33,722 | ・ Collaboration with teachers ・ Minase researcher support |
| 9 | Science classes (Shikoku Sekisui Co., Ltd.) | Raise the next generation of children's interest in and passion for science. | Junior high school students | Local junior high schools | Organizer | 2009～ | 73 | 875 (2010～) |
Implementation on a continuous basis |
| 10 | New Acceptance of internships (Sekisui Chemical Hokkaido Co., Ltd.) |
Deepen the understanding of work, companies, industries, and society through employment experience | High school students | Local High schools | Organizer | 2022～ | 7 | 7 | Implementation on a continuous basis |
| 11 | SB Student Ambassador Block Meeting | Under the theme of the SDGs, we will utilize our unique knowledge to bring about improvements in the next generation of young people's knowledge and ability to take action needed to solve problems toward the creation of a sustainable society. | High school students | Initiatives Other companies | Teaching material provision and lecturers | 2020～ | 111 (Participants at Company lectures) | 269 ( Participants at Company lectures) | Expand implementation area to rural areas (Company participates in east and west Japan meetings only) |
| 12 | Contribution to English teaching materials | Develop students' English proficiency by introducing corporate manufacturing through the products around them in English. This will lead to student job hunting and career education. | University students | Publishing companies | Contribution to teaching materials | 2020～ | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | ・ Use these teaching materials in university English classes ・ Expansion of schools that use teaching materials |
Kyushu Sekisui Heim Industry Co., Ltd. Initiatives
Summer Holiday Children's Carpentry Workshop
Kyushu Sekisui Heim Industry Co., Ltd. held the Summer Holiday Children's Carpentry Workshop in cooperation with the Tosu City Community Development Promotion Center in order to raise environmental awareness among the next generation of children through craftmanship. This activity involves factory employees and local children working together to make a bench for an outdoor bus stop to replace the one that deteriorated due to the elements.
Firstly, local elementary students made a bench from wood scraps produced from the factory after they received an explanation about the 17 SDGs goals and how they relate to their daily lives using educational materials. The children and the staff cut the wood together, and the children drew pictures and wrote letters on the assembled bench.
The completed bench was then installed at the community bus stop of a resident center used by men and women of all ages.
Through this activity, the children learned that making a bench from wood scraps (craftmanship using waste wood) is linked to SDGs Goals 12 "sustainable production and consumption” and 13 “combat climate change.”
This was our first attempt to hold an SDGs class for local children in cooperation with local public institution Tosu City Community Development Promotion Center, and it was a good experience for us as factory employees to contribute to the community and our own environmental activities. We hope to use this experience to improve our activities in the future.
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Assembling the bench using wood scraps
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Varnishing a bench made from wood scraps
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Commemorative photo of people sitting on the completed bench
Next-generation Training Activities at Overseas Group Companies
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SEKISUI KYDEX, LLC. (USA)
“Manufacturing Day 2022” was held and over 70 local students were invited to learn about such as manufacturing processes, safety measures, design, and recycling-oriented design while touring the facility.
