Global COE Program Ars Vivendi
The Global COE Program Ars Vivendi ends as of academic year 2011 (March 2012) and its activities are taken over by the Research Center for Ars Vivendi of Ritsumeikan University.
The Global COE Program Ars Vivendi of Ritsumeikan University was recognized by Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as one of the programs to be supported form excellent educational and research base worldwide on June 15, 2007.
- What is the Global COE Program?
- Program Members
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- A List of Institutions We Exchange Memorandum of Understanding with
- Research Achievements
- Research Achievements through Publication or Events
- Our Multilanguage Research Achievement Publication
- Research Supports
- Self-evaluation

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We live with diseases, aging and disabilities. Through these experiences, we create the wisdom and techniques for living. The Ars Vivendi program collects experiences and stories of people with diseases, aging and disabilities and analyzes their relationships with society. It envisions the way they may live in the future and presents projects for an ideal society and world. We have been compiling a database of information that until now only existed dispersed and buried in various fields of the natural and social sciences, as well as the arts. We analyzed the collected information and made it accessible to society at large.