The COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) Project is about working with university students in a different country to formulate and present a proposal for improving 'liveability' for university students. This project will allow you to apply the skills and knowledge you have already acquired at university in a practical context, as well as giving you experience in collaborating in multicultural teams and producing outputs beyond traditional academic writing, which are activities which most (if not all) of you will be required to perform in your working life after graduation.

This year, the COIL Project is being operated in partnership between Hitotsubashi University (Japan) and Monash University (Australia).

At Monash University the project comprises one module within the unit, ATS3089 Social Institutions and Power in Asia (coordinator: Jeremy Breaden). This is a 3rd year level capstone unit in the Global Asia Major, as well as an elective unit in the Majors in Chinese Studies, Indonesian Studies, Japanese Studies, and Korean Studies.

At Hitotsubashi University, the project is incorporated into a course named Global Leadership Program Seminar (Australia) / International Seminar (Australia), under the theme: Global, Regional, and Local Perspectives in Asian Society. The course is offered under the Department of Law/International Public Policy school (coordinator: Yukako Tanaka-Sakabe). The course aims for students to capture various perspectives (global, regional, and local) of understanding the dynamics of Asia. The first half of the course digs into Bosai (disaster risk reduction)  initiative to start-up thinking about liveability in Japan.