A Study on University Cooperation Projects for the 2020 Paralympic Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo

Abstract

In June 2014 an agreement of cooperation was signed among the Paralympic Organizing Committee and 552 universities in regard to the promotion and planning of the Olympics movement for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The object of this study was to clarify the challenges for the organizing committee and university cooperation projects in preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics tournament, based on business examples from the Nagano Olympics. As a result of this study, it has been possible to create an environment for sharing information and planning the development of the tournaments of the Paralympics Games based on cooperation and sharing of information from the Nagano Olympics, the Games Organizing Committee, and local universities at the time of the Paralympic Games. Furthermore, to enable information exchange with the organizing committee, training and participation of tournament volunteers has been carried out. In light of this it is considered that, for the 2020 tournaments, it is important to carry out information exchange in cooperation with the business plan of the organization and the Games Organizing Committee and with the cooperation of each university.