Work hours: 8:30 to 17:00
Break time: 12:15 to 13:00
Overtime work: Applicable
(4) Health Insurance, Pension, and Other Insurance:
・Mutual association of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
・Employee pension
・Workers' accident compensation insurance
・Employment insurance
(5) Support for female faculty members:
To support faculty members, there is a system in place to subsidize the employment costs of technical
assistants (see Appendix 5).
12. Name of Hiring Institution:
Hokkaido University
13. Measures to Prevent Second-hand Smoke:
No smoking on campus except for the designated outside smoking areas.
14. Others
Hokkaido University has announced the “Statement on the Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion” and is striving
to promote education and research activities by diverse human resources. We are also striving to create an
environment that empowers all members of the University to demonstrate their abilities to the fullest.
Web page of the Statement on the Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion.
URL: https://diversity.synfoster.hokudai.ac.jp/en/statement_en/
Appendix
2. The Laboratory of Vehicle Robotics constitutes the Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental
Engineering, together with five other laboratories, namely, Land and Water Management, Soil Conservation,
Ecological and Environmental Physics, Agricultural and Food Process Engineering, and Agricultural Bio-System
Engineering.
3. The successful applicant will partly or fully give the lectures listed below, for which the Laboratory of Vehicle
Robotics is responsible. The laboratory participates in “the Global Education Program for AgriScience Frontiers”
and also provides education only in English.
(1) Subjects in the Graduate School of Agriculture: Advanced Smart Agriculture, Study on Agricultural Science
I & II, Seminar on Agricultural Science I & II, and others
(2) Subjects in the School of Agriculture: Field informatics and automation, Automatic control, Seminar in
Bioresource and Environmental Engineering I-IV, Graduation Thesis, and others.
(3) Subjects in general education: Environment and People, and others.
4. The Vehicle Robotics Laboratory is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge in the domain of smart
agriculture through education and research initiatives. The laboratory's research endeavors center on addressing
critical issues pertaining to global food production. These efforts involve the development of intelligent and
robotic off-road vehicles, as well as the collection and analysis of spatial data on farmland, weather, and
crops. Currently, the laboratory has one associate professor, one assistant professor and specially appointed
assistant professor as faculty members.
5. The Diversity and Inclusion Promotion Headquarters of our university is implementing various initiatives in
addition to the project to subsidize the employment costs of technical assistants as shown in the attached document.
URL: https://www.dei.hokudai.ac.jp/en/