Gifu University carried out a campus-wide "Clean Campus Campaign in Spring 2017" on May 24, 2017.
Gifu University declared itself "Environmental University" in 2009, and has been working hard to create an environmentally-friendly university. As part of this effort, the clean campus campaigns are held twice a year.

A total of 798 people including board members, teaching and administrative staff and students took part in the campaign. After a short speech by Mr. Masaki Yokoyama, Executive Director for General Affairs and Finance, the participants spent about an hour picking up trash and weeding within campus. Staff from Gifu Pharmaceutical University, part of its facilities is within the Gifu University premises, also took part in the campaign.

Some of them walked along Shinbori River near the university picking up cans, bottles and weeded the riverside. Students who are studying "Modern Society and Volunteerism, Regional Activities" participated in cleaning a "Maruike Pond," a place of relaxation and exchange of Gifu University. This activity was planned and organized by the students and was also joined by teaching and administrative staff. After clearing, Associate Professor Takahiko Mukai of the Faculty of Regional Studies delivered a short lecture about creatures they captured at the pond. He also gave the students an advice of not letting fish, animals, etc. they keep, but whose origins are unknown, into the wild in order not to increase non-native species in Japan.