Food, environment, and energy issues by grobal warming and population explosion are urgent concerns in the world. In order to solve these problems, there is an urgent need to focus on the "Green Economy", which is not an economic activity based on fossil fuel, but a recycling-oriented society that does not burden the environment.

Recent innovations have made possible the acquisition of big data related to human behavior patterns and intracellular information in living organisms, as well as material properties and high-resolution imaging using high-sensitivity, high-precision sensors and devices. The combination of these advances, coupled with dramatic improvements in computer performance and information technology for analyzing these big data, is creating a "digital green technology" that is rapidly fusing biotechnology and digital technology. However, in order to utilize this "digital green technology" and widely implement its results in society, it is necessary to link basic research and applied research for social implementation in a cross-disciplinary manner, and to promote a new type of industry-academia-government collaboration that drives innovation through research from the basic to the implementation stage and to develop human resorces which realize these innovation.

This consortium aims to be a new community where researchers and students study information science, bioscience and material creation science at NAIST, which is at the forefront of science in Japan, and participating companies, organizations and municipalities can co-create by taking advantage of each other's strengths to solve various social issues, and further deepen digital green technology to realize a green economy and to foster the next generation of human resources.