About the Ozo Revitalization Project

Peace and Nature focuses on partnerships and #17 of the SDGs. We promote various projects with companies, universities, foreign organisations, governments and other organisations to solve local and environmental challenges together from a global perspective.

～ Human Resource Development Programme for the Achievement of the SDGs ～
Collaborative project with Kobe Shushinkan, Kobe Design University and Peace & Nature

2022 Report
Ozo Revitalization Project (commonly known as Riva-Pro)

By collaborating with the international NPO Peace & Nature (P&N) and Kobe Design University, Kobe Shushinkan aims to contribute to the realisation of a sustainable society by promoting local revitalisation and urban-rural exchange at its base of operations (47 Hisaihara, OZO-cho, Kita-ku, Kobe City), with a focus on SDGs and solving local issues that also affect the whole region of Japan.

１　Environmental and economic aspects
With the aim of reviving terraced rice fields, they worked with P&N and were able to clear some of the bamboo forest. They also tried their hand at growing rice in terraced rice paddies that had been left fallow. They will start with rice rice and aim to produce sake rice in the future.

2　Social and economic aspects
In the first semester, we visited the Ozo area of Kita-ku, Kobe City with students from the Visual Design Department of Kobe Design University to examine the issues facing the area, and challenged them to design a plan to solve social aspects of the problem by linking it to the achievement of the SDGs goals. By continuing this project, we want to develop SDGs human resources.

2　Social and economic aspects
In the second half of the year, students from the Visual Design Department of Kobe Design University visited Kobe Shushinkan to learn about sake brewing using sake rice grown in the Ozo area of Kobe’s Kita Ward. The challenge was to design a project to solve economic issues linked to achieving the SDGs goals. By continuing the project, we want to develop SDGs human resources.

4　Social Aspects
They wanted to strengthen their relationship with local people, for example by participating in local events such as summer festivals, but their activities were limited by the Corona pandemic. Securing local public transport is also a major issue; we would like to connect students and the local community and promote industry-academia collaboration, targeting the SDGs native generation.