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We are committed to conveying the wonders of science and technology and the importance of craftsmanship to elementary and junior high school students in Japan. For this reason, we hold science classes in which our employees act as instructors, and we also offer corporate training to teachers. In addition to work experience and factory tours, we actively engage in career and educational support activities to help students become self-reliant when they enter the workforce, such as independence support and corporate lectures.
Overseas, as well, we provide technical support in the rapidly developing Southeast Asia region such as donating laboratory equipment (Fuji Electric products) to science and engineering universities. We also invite instructors from vocational training schools to Japan, where they learn how to operate and maintain the equipment and how to provide effective guidance in the field.

Next-generation development support

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Science classes

Fuji Electric is actively endeavoring to convey the wonders of science to children, in response to a recent decline in children's interest in the subject.

[Activity Examples]

  • Lesson for learning about power generation mechanisms through wind power experiments in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture
  • Science classes in collaboration with “children’s university” event in Konosu City, Saitama Prefecture (Konosu Board of Education and local elementary schools)
  • Building motors by hand in Sapporo, Hokkaido (Sapporo Chuo Elementary School) and Sendai, Miyagi
  • Outreach Vending Machine Classes in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture
  • Making Tops with a 3D Printer Classes, No. 2 Kameido Elementary School (Koto-ku, Tokyo)
  • ⇒[Interview of our contribution activities to SDGs, 'Bring the Fun of Science to Children'
  • Learning about power generation mechanisms through making handmade "button spinner" for elementary school students (Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefectrure) facebooklinkedin

Building motors by hand
Building motors by hand
Learn how to use energy efficiently
Learn how to use energy efficiently
Training for Teachers

Fuji Electric accepts teachers for corporate training as part of its efforts to promote communication between companies and academia. While conveying to teachers the wonders of science and importance of manufacturing, we pass on information about such matters as the latest technology trends so that it will be useful for practical application in classes.

[Activity Examples]

  • Private-Sector Corporate Training for Teachers, The Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs
  • Science Teaching Skills Training in Hino, Tokyo (Board of Education of Hino City)

Private-sector corporate training for teachers
Private-sector corporate training for teachers
Hino city science teaching skills training for teachers
Hino city science teaching skills training for teachers
Workplace Experience and Factory Tours

Fuji Electric offers workplace experience to stimulate interest in manufacturing among children as well as factory tours to convey to local communities the Company's technologies, products and activities.

[Activity Examples]

  • Family factory tours, workplace experience programs at overseas subsidiaries, and accommodation of social studies field trips for elementary school students, nursing university practicums, workplace experience programs for junior high school students, etc.

Workplace Experience for junior high school students
Workplace Experience for junior high school students
Factory tour
Factory tour
Educational Support Overseas

Fuji Electric is helping improve the quality of engineering education in target countries by donating its products and providing training at the Company.

[Activity Examples]

  • Providing courses at local schools in Thailand
  • Donations of educational materials to university in Vietnam (Hanoi University of Science and Technology)
  • Donations of research supplies to university in Indonesia (Darma Persada University)
  • Technical Training for Vocational School Leaders in Cambodia (in collaboration with JICA)
  • Awarding scholarships in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education)

Training for vocational school instructors
Training for vocational school instructors

Activity Examples

Science Class

Science classes held at elementary schools in Kawasaki City

On January and February, 2023, the Kawasaki Factory held science classes for 157 sixth graders at Higashi-Ikuta Elementary School and Oshima Elementary School, which are in Kawasaki City. The Kawasaki Factory has been offering these science classes since 2017 as a way to spark children’s interest in manufacturing through learning about science. This year’s classes were on wind power, which the Kawasaki Factory is closely related to. New employees, who are younger and closer to the children in age, hosted the class, conducting experiments using turbines made from milk cartons and motors. The turbines were used for experiments to demonstrate things such as how electricity is generated using wind, and how the amount of electricity generated varies depending on certain conditions. Afterward, the students shared their thoughts on the lesson, commenting “Now I became good at experimenting and considering,” and “It made me more interested in science, which I was not good at.”

Students in the science class
Students in the science class

Training for Teachers

Private Company Training for Teachers

For two days from August 7, 2023, we held training for 26 teachers from elementary and junior high schools in Hino City, Tokyo, at the Human Resources Development Center (Tokyo Factory Area). This training was sponsored by the Japan Institute for Social and Economic Affairs, and its intent was to give teachers a deeper understanding of the concept of corporate activities and human resource development initiatives. In addition to introducing our business and products and leading a factory tour, we also gave the participants a lesson on programming suitable for elementary school science classes.

Students on the factory tour
Students on the factory tour

Factory Tour

Holding a factory tour for local elementary school students

As part of our CSR activities, on November 8, 2021, the Matsumoto Factory, sufficiently taking measures to prevent COVID-19 infection, invited 49 third-year elementary school students from Tsukama Elementary School in Matsumoto City to a factory tour. Power semiconductors, the core product of Matsumoto Factory, are almost never seen in everyday life. The students on the tour listened intently to the explanations provided by our employees and learned the important role played by these semiconductors that are used in familiar products, such as Shinkansen trains, cars, computers and consumer electronics. The students seemed very impressed. We also showed them the power semiconductor production process and cogeneration (combined heat and power) equipment. This was a valuable opportunity for the students to gain a greater understanding of the Matsumoto Factory.

Students on the factory tour
Students on the factory tour

Educational Support Overseas

Developing the Next Generation through Courses at Local Schools

As part of the social contribution activities commemorating Fuji Electric’s 100th anniversary in 2023, we Fuji Electric Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd. are supporting the development of the next generation by providing courses on the Japanese language, quality and manufacturing, and electrical equipment at two local technical colleges. In some of the courses, our employees serve as instructors, sharing their work knowledge and information about our products. First, we held a two-day course on quality (ISO) from September 20, 2022, which was very popular with the students. "We hope that these courses will help them to gain knowledge and skills they can use in their future jobs."

Developing the Next Generation through Courses at Local Schools

Supporting the Cambodia National Skill Competition

Approximately 100 pieces of electrical equipment including Fuji Electric programmable logic controllers (PLC) and circuit breakers were donated to the National Skill Competition held by the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training of Cambodia for five days from October 24 to 28, 2022. During the Competition, 61 students from vocational training schools in Cambodia competed in categories that included electric circuits, manufacturing, and programming with the aim of representing their country at the ASEAN competition. The Competition, now on its 8th occasion, aims to contribute to improving Cambodia’s vocational abilities and the value of its young workers. Since 2017, Fuji Electric has collaborated with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on such projects and will remain involved in activities to support the development of human resources in Cambodia. We will continue our contribution to improving the quality of engineering education for students in Southeast Asia to enhance their technical skills.

State of competition

Participated in STEM Fair 2023

As part of our CSR activities, we, Fuji Electric (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., participated in STEM Fair 2023, organized by Kedah State. The event lasted for three days from January 8, 2023, and it brought together other companies from the business park where we are located as well as government agencies and industry players, all for the purpose of communicating the importance of STEM* to local students. By producing spider robots, we showcased our power semiconductors and our other products, how they are manufactured, and how fun it can be to learn about STEM.
*Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Participated in STEM Fair 2023

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