ESGPromoting Youth Development
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]
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| 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]
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| 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]
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| Career Education |
Fuji Electric is engaged in career education activities designed to help students learn the skills necessary to achieve independence as members of the workforce and to teach them the importance of work and how work should be viewed. We also aim to help endow students with the mind-set and attitude necessary to approach work with ambition in order to encourage them to choose the course of their future for themselves. [Activity Examples]
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| 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]
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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.”
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.
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."
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.
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