The Research Center for Ars Vivendi of Ritsumeikan University was established by Ritsumeikan Univesity after our Ars Vivendi program had been adopted as a Global Center of Excellence (GCOE) Program by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology (MEXT) in Japan. It was set up at Ritsumeikan University's Kinugasa Campus with the aim of establishing a new world-wide educational and research center. In April 2019, Institute of Ars Vivendi (Formerly, Research Center for Ars Vivendi) was founded.