The University of Oxford and the Inamori Foundation on Monday announced that future winners of the Kyoto Prize will be invited to address audiences of decision-makers in the United Kingdom. The program will be called the "Kyoto Prize at Oxford."

"Partnership with Oxford would greatly amplify public appreciation and understanding of the Kyoto Prize in the United Kingdom and the West," said Louise Richardson, vice chancellor of the University of Oxford. She was speaking Monday at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo.

The Inamori Foundation said the program will improve awareness of the prize in Europe.