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What is SDGs QUEST Mirai Koshien?

"SDGs QUEST Mirai Koshien" is a nationwide inquiry-based action contest in which high school students proactively explore environmental issues such as climate change, ecosystems, and water resources, as well as social issues such as poverty, food, social disparity, and ethical consumption, and work as teams to come up with solutions, and then present and award awards. In order to nurture the "leaders of a Sustainability society" described in the new Course of Study, we aim to create opportunities to encourage action to solve social issues based on the SDGs.
This initiative started in the Hokkaido and Kansai areas in 2019, and the host area and the scale of participants have continued to expand year by year, and in FY2024, a total of 11,041 students and 2,741 teams of high school students from 23 areas (40 prefectures) participated. This year, in addition to the "National Exchange Meeting" to be held in June, the "SDGs QUEST Mirai Koshien Future Session 2025" will be held in October. We will discuss our vision for the future from these three perspectives.

Sponsorship Overview

Purpose of sponsoring this activity

"SDGs QUEST Mirai Koshien" is an initiative that is in line with the Group's "Our Purpose" "To design sustainable environments for a happier future for both people and our planet." and believes that it can contribute to the development of "leaders of a Sustainability society", and we will sponsor the "SDGs QUEST Mirai Koshien Metropolitan Area Convention" in FY2022, and from FY2023 we will be "SDGs QUEST We are co-sponsoring as an official sponsor of "Mirai Koshien".
Last year, as a corporate award, Okinawa Prefectural Chatan High School and Gushigawa High School's "Team Sarabungee!" action plan "MC is a high school student! Showa Retro Shimakutoba Singing Voice Cafe" was presented with the "MIRARTH Award". Our efforts to pass on the endangered language "Shimakutoba" to the next generation and the idea of deepening relationships with local communities as a clue to solving various social problems that occur in a "disconnected society" have a high affinity with our long-term vision "Be the Takara of the community.", and we sympathized with our desire to inherit local culture and our efforts to connect people in the region.
The Group will continue to support the young people who will lead the future, contribute to solving issues in each region, and promote initiatives for the realization of a Sustainability society.

• The 2024 Future Session Award Ceremony

Publication of the 2030 Research Newspaper

We are publishing the "2030 Research Newspaper", a public relations medium to raise awareness of Mirai Koshien's winning actions, for schools in the area where the event will be held in 2025. The "2030 Research Newspaper" introduces the action ideas of the best and best-winning teams from the tournaments held in each area in 2024, with the aim of encouraging high school students to participate in the tournament and serving as a reference for generating ideas.
In addition, teachers can use the action ideas of high school students from the same age as familiar examples for achieving the SDGs when conducting inquiry-based learning at school.

MIRARTH HOLDINGS Group's Initiatives to Achieve the SDGs

The MIRARTH HOLDINGS Group has set "To design sustainable environments for a happier future for both people and our planet." as its "Our Purpose" and hopes to contribute to the resolution of social issues and the achievement of the SDGs by engaging in sustainability activities through our business, such as the supply of housing and the introduction of renewable energy.
Takara Leben, which is mainly responsible for Real Estate Business of its core business, has been selected as a candidate for installation in the "Chuo Ward Sakuragawa Park Public-Private Partnership Project (Park-PFI Project)" publicly solicited by Chuo Ward, Tokyo, and has been promoting regional revitalization initiatives nationwide Japan such as opening a campground "UKIHA RIVERCAMP" in Ukiha City, Fukuoka Prefecture, which uses an abandoned school. In addition, we are actively participating in redevelopment and reconstruction projects, and in Odawara City in Kanagawa Prefecture, Takaoka City in Toyama Prefecture, Fukui City in Fukui Prefecture, etc., we aim to promote the increase in "urban residences" and attract visitors to the central city area, and to develop the city as a starting point for residents and visitors to the city, as well as to lead to the revitalization of the downtown area.
Since entering the mega solar business in 2013, Energy Business has been expanding the scale of power generation year by year, and in 2021 we entered the biomass power generation business and wind power generation business. MIRARTH Energy Solutions, which plays a central role in Energy Business, established a local subsidiary in Cambodia in February 2024 and is promoting initiatives aimed at coexistence with the local community while expanding its business domain, such as starting a processing business of Cambodian cashew nuts in Cambodia and a biomass fuel conversion business using cashew nut shells in Cambodia.
In addition, as a Addressing climate change, we have set medium- to long-term targets of "reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by FY2030 (compared to FY2022) and net-zero by FY2050" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Going forward, we will continue to support and promote initiatives to achieve the SDGs throughout the Group and strive to realize a Sustainability society.

• *Release dated March 29, 2024: "Notice regarding revision of mid- to long-term targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions: Promoting efforts to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050"

Partner company overview

• Company:

  Miraie Education Co., Ltd.

• CEO:

  Representative Director Masahiro Mizuno, CEO

• Location:

  〒062-0053 Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Toyohira Ward, Tsukisamu East 3-jo 11-chome 1-23 Branch Sapporo Tsukisamu C-2030

• Establishment:

  February 1988

• Business:

  Planning and development of sustainability learning materials, video coaching/certification and training of SDGs school facilitators, presentation of inquiry learning and hosting of exchange events, promotion of climate change education, sustainability education support projects, future literacy education support, development and operation of AI and digital learning platforms, production of ESD and SDGs video materials, collaborative learning production.

• Capital:

  22 million yen

• URL:

  https://miraikyoiku.ai/

Company Profile (MIRARTH HOLDINGS)

• Company:

  MIRARTH HOLDINGS, Inc.

• CEO:

  Kazuichi Shimada

• Location:

  16F Tekko Building, 1-8-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005

• Establishment:

  September 1972

• Business:

  Management of group companies, etc.

• Capital:

  9,056 millions of yen

• URL:

  https://en.mirarth.co.jp