Santen, the NPO Japan Blind Football Association (JBFA) and the International Blind Football Foundation (IBF Foundation) have a long-term partnership is named "VISI-ONE" with the aim of helping solve social issues related to visually impairments around the world. In "VISI-ONE", Santen, JBFA, and IBF Foundation organizing the "VISI-ONE Accelerator Program" for creating innovations in "seeing"
This accelerator program solicits proposals for commercialization ideas from companies and organizations that are trying to create new businesses, regardless of the size of the organization, in the six areas for bringing down the walls between those who can see and those who can't. We accept a wide range of new ideas and technological applications from different fields that are not bound by existing businesses. We support the creation of products and services that can bring down the walls and pursue business feasibility while collaborating with mentors and advisors who are visually impaired but active at the forefront of business.