This organization was established in April 2015. Our mission is to enable innovative research achievements and promote interdisciplinary research that may create new research areas. In so doing, we aim to enhance the research fields that Kanazawa University has an advantage, develop interdisciplinary research, and promote the international circulation of talented researchers. As a result so far, research at the institute has played an important role in the establishment of the following institutes such as "Nano-Life Science Institute" adopted by the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) in 2017, the "Nanomaterials Research Institute" in 2018, the "Advanced Manufacturing Technology Institute" in 2019, the "Advanced Mobility Research Institute" in 2021, and the "Institute for the Study of Ancient Civilizations and Cultural Resources" in 2022, and has produced researchers who are active in their respective institutes. Furthermore, this organization has been positioned as the core of the research promotion division in the "Integrated Creative Research Environment" established in 2022 as a university organization to create comprehensive knowledge by integrating the human, social, natural, and life sciences, and is also expected to further promote fusion research in cooperation with the research institutes. Hereafter, we envisage that the innovative areas in our institute, which emerge from fusion of heterogeneity of various disciplines, will make remarkable breakthroughs.
As of fostering young scientists which holds the key for the aim, it is essential to produce research personnel who are interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and international and that can face and challenge various serious problems affecting mankind.
The Graduate School of Frontier Science Initiative, which was established in April 2018, has a number of faculty members from our institute. In particular, the Division of Transdisciplinary Sciences with the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) provides educational programs that aim to integrate various fields of study without limiting academic disciplines beyond the boundaries of universities.
We aim to further strengthen research in which our university has an advantage, and to create new academic fields through interdisciplinary research, having the Institute for Frontier Science Initiative and Technology and the Graduate School of Frontier Science Initiative as the twin pillars of both research and education. We would appreciate your continued understanding and support.

Jiro Sakamoto
Director General
Institute for Frontier Science Initiative
Kanazawa University