Aspiring to become a campus that will help shape the future for human being and the environment and for Asia and the world, and that will work jointly with the local community in these endeavors, the Chikushi Campus of Kyushu University aims to establish itself as a central hub for transdisciplinary research and education that connects research activities in the fields of materials, environment, and energy, where this advanced science campus has distinguished itself.
Based on the vision and goals of the Chikushi Campus, the Transdisciplinary Research and Education Center for Green Technologies (the GT Center) was founded on April 1, 2018, through a merger of the Research and Education Center of Carbon Resources (Carbon Center, founded in 2008) and the Research and Education Center for Advanced Energy Materials, Devices, and Systems (founded in 2013). Working together with researchers at the Chikushi Campus and other campuses of Kyushu University and researchers from institutions over the world, the GT Center strives to be an international hub for academic research on green technologies and their implementation, with the aim of contributing to the realization of integrative material-energy-environment systems needed for a low-carbon society with balanced and sustainable carbon cycles.
On April 1, 2019, the GT Center merged with the Green Asia Education Center (the GA Center), which had administered the Advanced Graduate Program in Global Strategy for Green Asia (FY 2012-2018), part of the Leading Graduate Schools Program. Since then, the GT Center has developed an enhanced system for providing advanced international education. After the merger, the GT Center has incorporated the vision of the Advanced Graduate Program in Global Strategy for Green Asia, namely, an Asia that achieves both resource conservation and economic growth. The GT Center promotes research and educational activities, aiming to develop, implement, and globally expand material-energy-environment systems that are integrative and innovative, and it produces scientific, industrial, and social results, contributing to a future society with a balanced carbon cycle.