Kawasaki City Launches Public-Private Collaboration Portal 'Kawasaki Future Co-Lab'

Kawasaki City Launches Public-Private Collaboration Portal 'Kawasaki Future Co-Lab'

On Monday, May 25, 2026, Kawasaki City officially launched the 'Kawasaki Future Co-Lab,' a comprehensive portal for public-private collaboration, alongside a dedicated website. The initiative aims to strengthen partnerships between the public and private sectors to address social challenges and create new value.

The portal serves as a platform for effective information dissemination to private businesses and coordinates between government and private entities. By fostering co-creation among diverse stakeholders, the city intends to generate sustainable and highly effective projects and work together until they reach social implementation. Through such efforts, the city seeks to turn these challenges into a chain of innovations that progress society, starting from Kawasaki.

The portal will share the city's 'Priority Co-Creation Fields' and challenges faced by various municipal departments, while accepting proposals (thematic and free-form) via a private proposal system. The city will handle coordination with internal departments and provide project management to drive efforts from project creation to social implementation.

### Initiatives - Aggregating and disseminating information on 'Priority Co-Creation Fields' and departmental challenges. - Serving as a unified contact point for inquiries and proposals from private companies and organizations. - Providing project coordination and ongoing support through collaboration with municipal departments to achieve social implementation. - Strengthening support through coordination with the 'Colors, Future! Actions Promotion Subcommittee.'

### Four Priority Co-Creation Fields 1. **Developing Talent for Future Industries** Aiming to establish a college of technology (Kosen) operated in partnership with companies and universities to nurture advanced talent in manufacturing and digital fields. 2. **Health Promotion Utilizing Data** Utilizing big data related to health checkups and medicine to improve individual health outcomes through public-private collaboration. 3. **Systems for Sustainable Living through Housing Circulation** Building a system to circulate housing and people by utilizing existing housing stock, enabling smooth transitions for young people, families with children, and the elderly according to their life stages. 4. **Forming Transportation Environments for Future Citizens** Promoting the implementation of autonomous buses, community transport services, and mobility hubs as transportation nodes.