The new Institute for Catalysis is opened today.The Institute for Catalysis was originally founded in 1943 by Juro Horiuchi and it was remodeled to the Catalysis Research Center in 1989. The new Institute for Catalysis will function as a unique Joint Usage/ Research Center for the catalysis fi eld, succeeding the mission of the Catalysis Research Center. We have 23faculty members under eight Fundamental Research "Catalysts are materials that accelerate chemical reactions. The development of catalyst materials is expected to contribute to solving some of the global problems we are facing now, such as climate change,the exhaustion of energy and natural resources,the population explosion, and deterioration of the environment. Our missions are not only to perform frontier research on catalysis, but to help and activate communities and to promote their catalytic research. We have started the new Institute for Catalysis now and are going to attempt further missions to expand catalysis research collaboration with other fi elds such as physics, biology,and environmental sciences, and create new academic fields based on catalysis science."