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History

1997

The Hakodate Area Public University Wide Area Union was established, consisting of one city and four towns: Hakodate City, Kamiiso Town, Ono Town, Nanae Town, and Toi Town (currently consisting of two cities and one town: Hakodate City, Hokuto City, and Nanae Town due to a merger).

1998

Construction of school building begins

1999

Future University Hakodate installation approval

2000

Keisuke Ito appointed as the first principal.

Future University Hakodate opens [School of Systems Information Science] Department of Media Architecture, Department of Complex Systems Science

2001

The school building (main office building) won the 26th Hokkaido Architecture Award.

The school building (main office building) won the 14th Hokkaido Red Brick Architecture Award.

2002

The school building (main office building) received the Architectural Institute of Japan Award (Works).

"Project Learning" launched, a pioneering approach to problem-solving learning

Future University Hakodate Graduate School establishment approval

2003

Future University Hakodate Graduate School Opens

2004

Hideyuki Nakajima assumes office as the second president of the university.

Establishment of a joint research center to systematically support regional collaboration and industry-academia-government collaboration

The school building (headquarters building) received the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Award in the 9th Public Architecture Award (living facilities category).

2005

Annex Building construction completed

Tokyo satellite office (Akihabara) opened

2006

Project-based learning educational concept adopted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for its "Support Program for Distinctive University Education"

2007

Approval for the establishment of a public university corporation

Hakodate City Council for the Promotion of Collaboration between Higher Education Institutions ( April, 2008 Participated in the establishment of the Campus Consortium Hakodate (formerly known as Campus Consortium Hakodate).

2008

Public university corporation established

Center for Meta-Learning (CML) established

2009

Hosting the Hakodate International Science Festival (held annually) as a regional network support project

2010

10th anniversary ceremony held

The Department of Complex Systems Science and the Department of Media Architecture have been reorganized into the Department of Media Architecture and the Department of Complex and Intelligent Systems.

We have established an Advanced ICT Course, a six-year program that integrates university and graduate school.

2012

Establishment of the FUN Collaborative Laboratory System

The Joint Research Center was reorganized and developed into the Center for University-Society Relations and Collaboration (CRC).

Meta-Learning Lab Activities Begin

2013

Launch of the "Practical Education Collaboration Network (enPiT)" project in collaboration with 15 universities nationwide

2014

Future University Hakodate Publishing Association launches publishing activities.

Relocated satellite office to Toranomon, Tokyo

2015

Established the Center for Information System Design (CISD)

2016

Yasuhiro Katagiri assumes office as the third president of the university.

Future University spin-off venture "Future Share Co., Ltd." established

2017

Establishment of the Future AI Research Center

2019

We have relocated our satellite office to Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. 2024 ( 2024 ))

2023

Suzuki Keiji appointed as the 4th president of the university.

2024

Future University Launches Startup Support Program

2025

25th Anniversary of the University's Founding