Solving problems in education
through co-creation with society.
Companies’ technology and work, universities’ research, the places and human ties of a community: all brought into children’s learning. Together with companies, universities, local governments and organisations, NIJIN creates learning that is hard to produce in schools alone.
WHY CO-CREATION
The more we co-create, the more choices children have.
Developing with engineers. Doing research at a university. Seeing real work in the community. Connecting with other countries. The more worlds children can encounter, the more choices they have.
REAL STORIES
Co-creation with society
changes children’s lives.
What changed for the children, and why NIJIN keeps co-creating with society. We show it through three real examples.
PANASONIC × CHILD
Even when a voice is hard to hear,
an idea can reach society.
Tacchan, who has a speech articulation disorder, used an AI voice to propose a new product to Panasonic employees, turning a painful experience at school into an idea for a service that helps teachers.
HOSPITAL × FOUNDATION
Even from a hospital room,
you can connect with society.
Ryoppi kept learning with classmates from the metaverse campus even during treatment. After putting that experience into words, Ryoppi took on a new challenge: supporting children in the same situation as a Kids Ambassador for The Nippon Foundation.
YOUTH LEADER AWARD
“Children are this country’s treasure.”
Making the whole of society a place to learn.
Tatsuro Hoshino received the Youth Leader Support Prize at the 17th Youth Power Award. In his acceptance speech, he spoke about co-creation with society: turning communities and companies into places of learning and giving children more choices.
COLLABORATION CASES
Large companies and universities × an education startup:
examples of working together.
Joint development, community building, support for children not attending school, joint research. We connect each organisation’s strengths to children’s learning.
Turning stations and communities into places where children learn.
Using stations and local networks, we co-create learning that takes the community itself as the teaching material.
Read about community co-creation (in Japanese) →
Bringing a company’s technology to local support for children not attending school.
We combine TOPPAN’s digital technology, a local government’s support structure and NIJIN’s teachers’ skill.
Read about the three-way project (in Japanese) →
Learning on a university campus and researching a new kind of education.
We opened a lab school inside a university to test a new education model through both practice and research.
Read about the joint research (in Japanese) →
From a child’s formative experience to product development.
A school uniform project by children and a company, which began with the wishes of a student who had experienced school non-attendance.
Read about the co-creation with ZOZO (in Japanese) →CO-CREATION PARTNERS
Across industries,
building education together.
WHY NIJIN
Why do we keep adding so much co-creation with society?
Some children develop things with engineers; others do research at a university. Some do not fit Japanese schools and yet thrive abroad. We are building an education in which school alone does not decide a child’s potential, and each child can choose, from the whole of society, the learning that suits them.
NEXT STEP
Co-creation with society: let’s think it through together.
Start by reading the overview. Meet us at an event. Talk to us directly. Begin wherever is easiest for you.
Overview: working with companies and co-creation with society
It sets out our thinking on education and co-creation, and the ways companies can get involved.
Open the overview (in Japanese) → EVENTNIJIN Education Expo 2026
An event where companies and children meet face to face and build education together.
See the official page (in Japanese) → CONTACTEnquiries about co-creation with society
Together, we work out where your organisation’s strengths meet problems in education.
Contact us →