This year marks the fourth year of the R-Gap Project Research, an industry-academia
collaboration consortium between the Shiga Prefecture Federation of Small and Medium
Enterprise Associations and Ryukoku University. We have been participating as a judge for
the poster session since its inception.

R-Gap Project Research fosters students’ initiative and problem-solving skills by having them
identify issues, conduct research, experiments, and analysis, and then present their findings
in a poster session.
This year, 24 presentations were made.

Judging is based on six criteria: 1) the originality and novelty of the theme, 2) the poster’s
structure and expressiveness, 3) whether the poster was explained clearly and thoroughly, 4)
whether the experimental and research methods were appropriate, 5) whether the results were
based on a result, and 6) whether the poster contributes to solving real-world problems.

This year, awards named after the judging companies are available, including our own “Shinko
Seiki Co., Ltd. Award.” The results will be announced at the awards ceremony on November 5th.

Thank you to all the Ryukoku University students who participated in the poster session.