Follow-up of the G8 University Summit

On July 4, 2008, President Komiyama of the University of Tokyo, President Saeki of Hokkaido University, President Anzai of Keio University, Rector Francesco Profumo of Politecnico di Torino, and President Xavier Michel of Ecole Polytechnique met Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda at the Minister’s office to hand over the Declaration and requested him to take leadership at G8 Summit to take actions based on the Declaration.

The presidents aimed at promoting G8 leaders to recognize the outcome of the G8 University Summit through this meeting, and then reflecting it in the process for reaching a global consensus for achieving global sustainability through the discussions of global warming and other global issues at the G8 Toyako Summit, which was realized in the G8 Summit Document on Environment and Climate Change, in particular, in reference to the knowledge networks in the area of education for sustainable development.

As the follow-up of this summit, the presidents welcomed the proposal by the Conference of Italian University Rectors that the second G8 University Summit should be held in Italy in parallel with the G8 Summit in 2009.