STIN Education and Research

Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation (STIN) was established in April 2016 as the first graduate school of transdisciplinary science and humanities in Japan realized through the cooperation of faculty members from both the natural and social science departments of Kobe University.
STIN aims to cultivate human resources with a natural science background who have learned the skills to promote R&D in interdisciplinary fields of advanced science and technology, combined with entrepreneurship to design processes for business creation based on research findings.

  • Bioproduction
    Bioproduction
    By conducting cutting-edge biotechnology R&D, we aim to advance innovation in the biomanufacturing field, including biochemicals, biologics, and biofinechemicals.
  • Advanced Membrane Science and Technology
    Advanced Membrane Science and Technology
    The goal is to realize a resource-circulating society based on energy-saving and energy-generating processes with water purification and gas separation utilizing the membrane.
  • Advanced Information and Communication Technology
    Advanced Information
    and Communication Technology
    Researchers at the frontlines of Internet of Things (IoT) wide area network, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and quantum computers are driving cutting-edge research and development in the field of IT application through technological development and collaboration.
    We contribute to the realization of Society 5.0 through the creation of innovation.
  • Advanced Medical Science
    Advanced Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
    Promotion of the development of new methodologies leading to the novel clinical diagnosis and therapy, by utilizing innovative strategies such as computational simulation, and vaccine platform technologies, further using special medical industry zone in Kobe.
  • Strategic Entrepreneurship
    Strategic Entrepreneurship
    The goal is to nurture and produce entrepreneurs with a natural science background who will create innovations (creation of social and economic values) that are competitive on a global level, based on promising research findings (seeds) in advanced science and technology.
  • Please visit the following page for information on curriculum structure and process for completing the program.
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