Kansai Science Juku for Girls in Junior High and High School 2027 (女子中高生のための関西科学塾)

Run by a consortium of Kansai universities with Kobe University as secretariat, the Juku encourages girls to consider science and engineering. Sessions in 2026 included talks by a forensic scientist and women researchers, an idea workshop, a chemical plant and laboratory tour with women employees, hands-on university lab experiments, and a two-day final session with experiments, presentations, awards and talks by international women scientists working in Japan.