6. Plenary Session: July 1, 2008, 9:00 – 11:30

Following the preceding day’s presentations, comments and discussions during the Parallel Sessions, the Plenary Session was held under the guidance of the chair of the Organizing Committee (President Hiroshi Komiyama of the University of Tokyo).

The chair (President Hiroshi Saeki of Hokkaido University) and vice-chair (President and Vice-Chancellor Indira V. Samarasekera of University of Albrerta) of Session A and their Session B counterparts (President Yuichiro Anzai of Keio University and Rector Francesco Profumo of Politecnico di Torino, respectively) presented summaries of their sessions.

Next, Rector Konrad Osterwalder of United Nations University made comments on the sessions as a whole.

The Sapporo Sustainability Declaration was adopted, and it was agreed that the second G8 University Summit would be held in Italy, the host country of the G8 Summit in 2009.

The Chair of the Organizing Committee (President Hiroshi Komiyama of University of Tokyo) and the Executive Director of the Secretariat (President Hiroshi Saeki of Hokkaido University) expressed their gratitude to the participating presidents and rectors.
At the end of the event, President Komiyama explained that members of the Secretariat of the Organizing Committee would visit the office of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in the near future to deliver the ‘Sapporo Sustainability Declaration’ and make a report on the G8 University Summit.