[Regional Collaboration] Participation Report of the 16th Hanshin Tsunagari Exchange Festival 2025

A report session on the "Regional Revitalization Support Project by University Students" sponsored by the Hyogo Prefectural Hanshin Minami Prefectural Center, in which Professor Ebi Ryohei's seminar from the Faculty Faculty of Modern Social Studies has been participating since 2021, was held at Konan University on December 7th.

The Hanshin Tsunagari Exchange Festival, an exchange event for university students, NPOs, civic groups, companies, and others working to revitalize the local community, is now in its 16th year.The event began with greetings from the director of the Hyogo Prefecture Hanshin Minami Prefectural Center, Deputy Director of the Konan University Nishinomiya Campus Office, and the Tsunagari Exchange Festival Student Executive Committee, followed by presentations by student groups on their activities.
Afterwards, participants were free to visit the booths of participating student groups, and there was a booth session where they could interact and exchange information, as well as group work to discuss the attractions of the Hanshin Minami region, and a social gathering.

The Ebi seminar project, "Researching regional tourism resources in the Hanshin area and producing a tabloid newspaper," was a hot topic at the exchange festival, with the representative seminar student giving an enthusiastic presentation about the project and the seminar students providing detailed explanations to visitors to the booth.

(Source: Regional and Social Cooperation Office)