Award Ceremony Held for "Sustena KIDS AWARD SDGs STATIONS Tokyu/Sotetsu Line" ~Encouraging Corporate and Organizational SDGs Challenges with Children's Ideas~
An award ceremony was held for an award recognizing elementary school students' SDG ideas.
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General Incorporated Association SWiTCH, co-sponsored by Tokyu Corporation and with special sponsorship from Sotetsu Holdings Inc., held the award ceremony for the "Sustena KIDS AWARD SDGs STATIONS Tokyu/Sotetsu Line" — an award that encourages elementary school students to support corporate and organizational SDG actions through their creative works — on Sunday, March 8, 2026, at SHIBUYA QWS Scramble Hall (Shibuya Ward, Tokyo).
A total of 1,238 works were submitted by elementary school students from 185 schools nationwide during the application period from Saturday, November 1, 2025, to Saturday, January 31, 2026. After a rigorous selection process, the winning works were decided, and are now available on the special website.
Special website: https://switch.bio/kidsaward-stations2026/
〈 Award Ceremony 〉
Approximately 200 people, including the award-winning children, their guardians, and representatives from the companies and organizations that provided missions, gathered for the award ceremony on Sunday, March 8, 2026. Awards were presented and an exchange meeting was held. Tokyu Line character “Norurun” and Sotetsu Railway character “Sounyan” also appeared on the day to congratulate the award-winning children. The venue was filled with loud applause and smiles. During the awards, 17 “Mission Awards” provided by companies and organizations and 5 “Overall Awards (Jury Awards)” selected from all submitted works were announced to celebrate the winners.
Professor Emeritus Masamori Emori (Deputy Director, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo), head of the judging committee, sent a message stating, “I felt great potential in how the children thought about and expressed the grand theme of environmental issues from their own perspectives. I expect that the ideas of the generation responsible for the future will have the power to change society positively.”
〈 Award Overview 〉
A total of 17 companies and organizations from various fields such as railway, aviation, housing, food, IT, and government participated in the award. Their initiatives such as “decarbonization,” “biodiversity,” and “resource circulation” were introduced as “missions” for the creation of works. SWiTCH and the mission providers carefully considered how to convey the missions to elementary school students in an easy-to-understand manner, and https://switch...
A total of 1,238 works were submitted by elementary school students from 185 schools nationwide during the application period from Saturday, November 1, 2025, to Saturday, January 31, 2026. After a rigorous selection process, the winning works were decided, and are now available on the special website.
Special website: https://switch.bio/kidsaward-stations2026/
〈 Award Ceremony 〉
Approximately 200 people, including the award-winning children, their guardians, and representatives from the companies and organizations that provided missions, gathered for the award ceremony on Sunday, March 8, 2026. Awards were presented and an exchange meeting was held. Tokyu Line character “Norurun” and Sotetsu Railway character “Sounyan” also appeared on the day to congratulate the award-winning children. The venue was filled with loud applause and smiles. During the awards, 17 “Mission Awards” provided by companies and organizations and 5 “Overall Awards (Jury Awards)” selected from all submitted works were announced to celebrate the winners.
Professor Emeritus Masamori Emori (Deputy Director, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo), head of the judging committee, sent a message stating, “I felt great potential in how the children thought about and expressed the grand theme of environmental issues from their own perspectives. I expect that the ideas of the generation responsible for the future will have the power to change society positively.”
〈 Award Overview 〉
A total of 17 companies and organizations from various fields such as railway, aviation, housing, food, IT, and government participated in the award. Their initiatives such as “decarbonization,” “biodiversity,” and “resource circulation” were introduced as “missions” for the creation of works. SWiTCH and the mission providers carefully considered how to convey the missions to elementary school students in an easy-to-understand manner, and https://switch...