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Activities of the Rohm Music Foundation and ROHM

Culture & Community

ROHM engages in a variety of activities to support music culture with the aim of continuously contributing its spread and development together with "Rohm Music Foundation", a public interest incorporated foundation, was established in 1991 by the founder (Kenichiro Sato).
By FY2022, we have supported 525 scholarship students and regularly hold Scholarship Concerts where the scholarship recipients perform.
We also organize the Kyoto International Music Students Festival to promote international exchange and foster young musicians, the ROHM Music Seminar to foster professional musicians who are active in the world, and support performances and research related to music.

Activities of the Rohm Music Foundation and ROHM
Activities of the Rohm Music Foundation and ROHM

Photo: Tatsuo Sasaki

ROHM Theatre Kyoto as the Production Base for the Education Project "Seiji Ozawa Music Academy"

Culture & Community

We support the “Seiji Ozawa Music Academy”, a project by world-renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa to nurture young musicians. This is an unparalleled program in which young Asian musicians selected in auditions perform with top singers under the guidance of Seiji Ozawa and other world-renowned musicians. Since 2015, we have also been presenting "Opera for Children" in the hope that children will experience the wonder of music and develop an interest in it. More than 16,000 elementary school students in Kyoto have been invited to attend performances at the Rohm Theatre Kyoto.

ROHM Theatre Kyoto as the Production Base for the Education Project -Seiji Ozawa Music Academy-
ROHM Theatre Kyoto as the Production Base for the Education Project -Seiji Ozawa Music Academy-

Photo: Michiharu Okubo、Masatoshi Uenaka

An Event Overflowing with Music "ROHM Music Festival"

Culture & Community

In 2016, we started the "ROHM Music Festival", held at ROHM Theatre Kyoto.
In the festival, performances are held by members of the "Rohm Music Friends", who were supported by ROHM and the Rohm Music Foundation as the musician support activities and are currently active as professionals at home and abroad (4,837 persons as of March 2023), and by junior and senior high school students from Kansai area. During the festival, the whole area is filled with music and the festival is enjoyed by many people.

An Event Overflowing with Music -ROHM Music Festival-
At ROHM Square in ROHM Theatre Kyoto
Photo: Yoshikazu Inoue
An Event Overflowing with Music -ROHM Music Festival-
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Trumpet: Kazuaki Kikumoto,
Conductor: Kosuke Tsunoda,
Orchestra: New Japan Philharmonic,
At the Main Hall of ROHM Theatre Kyoto
Photo: Tatsuo Sasaki

Certification for Biodiversity Conservation

EnvironmentCulture & Community

In January 2021, ROHM received the “Certification from Association for Business Innovation in harmony with Nature and Community” from Association for Business Innovation in harmony with Nature and Community(ABINC)*1.
We have received the "Excellent stage 2" certification for the second consecutive year in the "Green Development Ranking Division" category of SEGES *2, a green certification program operated by Urban Greenery Agency *3, in recognition of its environmental conservation efforts in consideration of biodiversity in the area surrounding ROHM’s head office.
ABINC certification is an independent certification system that began in 2014 to evaluate and certify biodiversity-friendly efforts in the creation, management, and use of green spaces based on the Guidelines for Promoting Biodiversity in Business Facilities developed by Japan Business Initiative for Biodiversity (JBIB)*4
ABINC highly commended our activities for creating and maintaining a large green area in spite of city in the Kyoto city, which contributes to the improvement of biodiversity and the cityscape.
SEGES has commended our activities as a good example that the area around our headquarters has become an indispensable green space for the region as a result of our long-standing efforts to create biodiversity-friendly green spaces based on the concept of "factories in forests".
We ROHM Group recognizes that the natural blessings of the earth's biodiversity not only provide the resources and energy needed for our business activities, but also the various benefits. And to maintain the global environment in a better state, we will continue to actively engage activities aimed at harmonizing with the natural cycle.

Certification for Biodiversity Conservation
Certification for Biodiversity Conservation

Japan Super Science Fair

Education

The Japan Super Science Fair (JSSF) is an initiative sponsored by Ritsumeikan High School, where science high school students from every country in the world interact on the subject of science in Kyoto, and ROHM has participated continuously since 2013.

The purpose of this class is to allow students to experience the joy of manufacturing by working together as a team while overcoming language barriers.

ROHM employees visited Ritsumeikan High School to give a "Science Talk" lecture. After explaining the functions of electronic components and circuits to the students, they created an electronic circuit on paper using a conductive ink pen (Circuit Marker) and conducted an experiment to light up a chip LED, one of ROHM's own products. Then, as an advanced part of the program, group work was conducted to design electronic circuits freely, and poster presentations, voting, and awards were held for each group's work.

From here on, through these kinds of activities, ROHM will continue to support those students aiming to become the next generation's engineers.

Japan Super Science Fair
Japan Super Science Fair

JSSF to be held in 2019

Collaboration for "SS Challenge" at Ritsumeikan High School

Education

ROHM has been offering workshop classes to Ritsumeikan High School since FY2020.
Although it is difficult to conduct face-to-face communication and experiments in the current COVID-19, ROHM agrees with the school's main goals of "making students aware of the appeal of science and technology" and "providing opportunities for students to think and learn on their own”, and has participated in the SS Challenge project, in which research institutes, universities, and companies conduct classes as part of their career education.
The theme of the class was "Let's change society with semiconductor technology!". In order for the students to learn more about ROHM's technology, engineers gave a lecture on sensor technology, one of ROHM's technologies, and introduced it through video demonstrations.
In the workshop after that, each group considered ideas to solve problems using various sensors with the theme of Let’s think about solving social issues using sensors!
Through these educational support activities, we will meet the expectations of educational institutions, create the next generation of human resources, and contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.

Collaboration for “SS Challenge” at Ritsumeikan High School
Collaboration for “SS Challenge” at Ritsumeikan High School

Monozukuri (manufacturing) Lessons for Elementary School Students in Kyoto City

Education

At ROHM, we endorse the initiative of the Kyoto City Board of Education, and in order to increase children's interest in Monozukuri and provide them with an opportunity to think about their path to the future and their dreams, from the 2010FY we are holding a display of a booth using our company products and providing Monozukuri lessons at the "Kyoto Manabi-no Machi Ikikata Tankyu Museum".

In the lesson, through the creation of a circuit combining a resistor, which has been a product manufactured by ROHM ever since its establishment, and LEDs that shine in three colors, we were able to make the students think about the three primary colors and the energy saving result of the LEDs, as well as the enjoyment of Monozukuri and their own futures.

The children listened attentively to the teachers who had come from our company, with comment such as "That's how a circuit works", "All the different colors shining are beautiful", and they were absorbed in the LED circuits they themselves had created.

From here on, in order to provide an opportunity for many children to experience the enjoyment of Monozukuri and have them imagine their future jobs, we will continue to carry out Monozukuri lessons.

In order to prevent COVID-19 infection, due to policy of the Kyoto City Board of Education in FY2021, we only provided component kits to the "Kyoto Manabi-no Machi Ikikata Tankyu Museum“ and classes was conducted by the staff.In FY2022,we have been resuming in-person classes with employees.

Manufacuturing Lesson
Manufacturing Lesson(as of FY2022)

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