A research of significance and potential of the local currency for making a welfare community

长野县上田市下野区。非营利组织“学成kurashizukuri kouou”三年前发行了日本货币IKUTAL。发行这种当地货币的目的是在学生和老年人之间进行交流，并在这两个社会阶层之间建立一个相互帮助的新社区。在三年的时间里，我们进行了三次与“学成仓国口”相关的社会实验。我们对当地货币流通的变化、居民对当地货币的认知程度、交换行为的内容、不同社会阶层之间的关系程度进行了为期三年的调查。学习成kurashizukuri合唱团用当地货币表演了“交流社”、“痴呆症预防讲座”、“烤土豆社”等娱乐活动。表演了Goyoukiki Houmon，学生们去老人家里寻求帮助。因此，我们扮演了一个重要的角色，让当地的货币在不同的社会阶层之间建立社区。此外，我们能够考虑当地货币的形式，方便老年人在经常的关系中消费。

At Shimonogo area, Ueda-city Nagano.pref., The non-profit Organization Gakusei kurashizukuri koubou commit published the local currency IKUTAL three years ago. The purpose of the publish of this local currency is interchange between a student, as entering inhabitants and the senior citizen, old inhabitants, and to make the new community for mutual help between those two social layers.We performed three times of social experiments in connection with Gakusei kurashizukuri koubou for three years. And we conducted an investigation into a change of the traffic of the local currency, a cognitive degree of the local currency among the inhabitants, the contents of the action of interchange, the degree of relations between the different society layers for three years. Gakusei kurashizukuri koubou performed interchange society, a dementia prevention lecture, baked potato society, as recreation with a local currency. And Performed Goyoukiki Houmon which students visited the senior citizen's houses for help.As a result, it developed that we took an important role so that a local currency for making community between the different society layers. In addition, we were able to consider the form of the local currency that was easy to spend for a senior citizen in constant relations.