Dialogue and exploration by industry, academia and government

　Private companies, universities, and governments play a central role in dialogue on various regional and social issues, and discover new ideas and solutions.
　We have established a place for open innovation through dialogue.

　In March 2019, Yokohama City signed a "Research Agreement on Solving Issues through Open Innovation in Nursing Care" with four private companies.
　I have concluded it. We hold Care Tech Open Lab Yokohama throughout the year as a place for dialogue and demonstration experiments.

◆Year: 2023
　Contents　　：Consider support that does not depend on family members, such as elderly people who have no relatives.

At the Local Symbiosis Hackathon, students from universities and vocational schools form a mixed team, and each team sets a theme from the major theme of "Local Symbiosis", share opinions and ideas, and utilizes various technologies. We are working on solving problems. Through activities with students from other schools, we aim to create innovations that will help students develop their own careers and solve social issues.

Year: 2023
Contents　　：Holding the 5th Digital Hackathon
　　　　　　Vocational school students and university students form a mixed team (four teams) to create new innovations to solve problems in the nursing care field.
　　　　　　I tried it.

To solve specific social issues as a mechanism and method for promoting co-creation and open innovation provided by Yokohama City (Co-creation Promotion Section).
Through public-private dialogue in which various actors participate, we will establish a place for experimental activities to create concrete public-private partnership projects, and implement a series of initiatives up to business creation.
We provide support for accompaniment.

◆Year: 2022-2023
　Theme　：A city that opens tomorrow OPEN x PIONEER 2040 YOKOHAMA
　　　　　　In 2022-2025, we aim to become a "city that opens tomorrow" based on the newly formulated Yokohama Mid-Term Plan 2022-2025.
　　　　　　Held co-creation workshops to examine the ideal way of “Yokohama-like well-being” for citizens.
　Scheduling:
　　　1st: R5.2.17 Beyond Corona - Create “Life” that opens tomorrow through dialogue and exploration
　　　2nd: R5.3.20 Co-creation Workshop to consider the connection between the regional circulation economy and wellbeing in Yokohama
　　　No. 3: R5.3.29 Yokohama Version Regional Recycling-type Economic Promotion Project Report Meeting
◆before 2021
　Please refer to the following for past events (pdf file)