Students in Professor Naoya Hasegawa's seminar in the Faculty of Sustainability Studies win awards at the 11th CSR Synthesis Inter Seminar

　At the 11th CSR Synthesis Inter Seminar (supported by the Japan Society for Business Ethics), Ikumi Hasegawa, Ryoka Iwata, Aoi Yanagishita, Yuka Shimizu, and Yosuke Kaneko, third-year students in Professor Naoya Hasegawa's seminar in the Faculty of Sustainability Studies, excelled in their joint research "Next Stream: New Era Created by 'Non-contact'. The theme of this year's competition was "COVID 19".
　The theme of this year's call for proposals was "Transformation into Innovative Businesses and CSR in Response to COVID 19. Approximately 170 students from nine national, public, and private universities across Japan participated in the competition and presented the results of their seminar research. The Hasegawa Seminar won both the Excellent Presentation Award and the Student Grand Prize at the final judging session.
　The award-winning joint research was based on the research results accumulated by the Nikkei Stock League and analyzed "companies that are leading the construction of a contactless society while creating high value in terms of improving productivity and creating new businesses while protecting human safety.
　The following comments were received from the faculty members in charge of the judging and the students who participated in the competition.
The presentations were excellent, with deep insights based on detailed research and analysis, and from a business administration perspective.
The way each of the presenters gave their presentations was excellent, and everything, including the content, was perfect.

Comments on the award winners
Ikumi Hasegawa, 3rd year student, Faculty of Sustainability Studies
I am grateful to have received two awards, the Excellence Award and the Student Grand Prize. Although it was difficult to make oral presentations and conduct Q&A sessions because the competition was held online, the team members put in a lot of effort until the very end and the careful guidance of the professor led to our winning the awards. Thank you very much.

Yuka Shimizu, 3rd year student, Faculty of Sustainability Studies
Listening to the presentations by each university, we learned that there are various ways of thinking about CSR, and it was a good opportunity for us to learn about things that we had never thought of before. I would like to make use of what I learned today in my future research and other activities.

Ryoka Iwata, 3rd year student, Faculty of Sustainability Studies
I am very happy to have won such a wonderful award, as there are many people who think about CSR from various perspectives. I would like to thank Professor Hasegawa for his guidance and all the members who studied with me.

Yosuke Kaneko, 3rd year student, Faculty of Sustainability Studies
There were various approaches to the theme of "Transformation to Innovative Businesses and CSR in Response to COVID-19" from various universities, including theoretical research and generalization from corporate case studies. I was able to come into contact with the diverse ways of thinking of people belonging to different communities from my own, and I believe that this was a very good stimulus for my future research activities.

Aoi Yanagishita, 3rd year student, Faculty of Sustainability Studies
This was my first time to participate in the CSR Initiative Inter Seminar, and I am very happy to have received two awards. It was also a good experience for me to interact with people from other universities who were learning about CSR from different perspectives from the Hasegawa Seminar. I would like to thank Professor Hasegawa for his careful guidance and all the seminar students who were always nearby to support me.

Professor HASEGAWA Naoya