We at the CSK Group believe that the time has come for corporations to actively fulfill their duty to nurture children, who are the future leaders of the 21st century. With a focus on CAMP’s activities of developing, implementing and disseminating workshops that nurture children’s ability to engage in cooperative creativity, we work to further expand the opportunities for children throughout Japan to experience high-quality workshops. These efforts include developing human resources associated with workshops, researching school curricula, providing community platforms, and respecting and distributing intellectual property.

[Robotics Course at Ritsumeikan Primary School: A New Partnership between Business and Education]

Seeking new forms of learning that foster children’s ability to engage in cooperative creativity, CSK Holdings works with Ritsumeikan Primary School on joint research that focuses on developing a workshop-based class curriculum. In this way, we are exploring a new cooperative relationship between the spheres of education and business with the aim of nurturing society’s future generations.

[Collaboration with Yamauchi Laboratory at the University of Tokyo: Joint Research on Methods of Fostering Facilitators]

Facilitators who can elicit children¡s creativity and enliven communication are crucial for successful workshops. The perspectives and skills of facilitators are also highly effective within the context of school education. Focusing on the implementation of CAMP programs, we pursue joint research on methods of fostering facilitators with the Yamauchi Laboratory at the University of Tokyo Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies.

[CAMPACO: Workshop Dissemination Package]

CAMPACO is a workshop dissemination package inspired by our desire to have more children participate in CAMP workshops, backed by the expertise we have acquired through workshop implementation. We believe that corporations have an important contribution to make to a style of broad development aimed at greater versatility.

[Research Group on Workshop Intellectual Property: Disseminating High-Quality Workshops by Respecting and Utilizing Intellectual Property]

To broadly disseminate high-quality workshops and realize a society in which children all over Japan can experience them, CSK Holdings supports the activities of the Research Group on Workshop Intellectual Property. In partnership with participants who bring to the workshop a broad range of perspectives, research focuses on methods for properly respecting and utilizing original ideas and knowhow.

[Chapla Social Networking Service: A Workshop Community and Platform for Children]

We support the social networking service site Chapla as a platform for communication among people nationwide who are connected to workshops in various ways, including those who plan and implement the workshops, as well as parents and guardians who participate in them.

[Kids Design Association: Corporate Efforts to Improve Child Safety and Security, and to Encourage Healthy Growth and Development]

CSK Holdings participates in the Kids Design Association. This Cabinet Office-approved, specified nonprofit corporation is dedicated to promoting design that is safe and secure from a child’s perspective, while seeking to disseminate and increase public awareness concerning design that fosters healthy growth. Through our participation, we engage in CSR activities aimed at nurturing future generations.

[Program for Developing Workshop Designers: Nurturing Workshop Personnel]

Commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) as part of its Program to Promote Continuing Education for Working Adults, the program for developing workshop designers was initiated in fiscal 2009 with the aim of fostering specialists who can plan and run workshops. CSK actively cooperates with this project through its CAMP activities.