Deadline:
June 01, 2024
Location(s)
Japan Worldwide
Overview
Program Title: Cultivating Empathy Through Learning from Our Neighbors: Practitioners' Exchange on Common Issues in Asia
Details
The Toyota Foundation is a grant-making foundation whose goal is to contribute toward the realization of a more people-oriented society and a resulting increase in human happiness. We provide grants in support of research and projects in order to identify a diverse array of social issues, with a focus on the areas of human and natural environment, social welfare, education and culture. From its outset, the Toyota Foundation has provided grants with an approach to supporting projects based on “foresight,” “a participatory orientation,” and “an international perspective.”
Based on this fundamental philosophy, the Toyota Foundation will target proposals that fulfill the following points for grants from this year
- Great significance for society
- Anticipating internal and external issues
- Future-oriented
- Sustainable and developable
- Expected to have a ripple effect
Program Objectives
The grant program focuses on deepening mutual understanding and knowledge-sharing among people on the ground in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia who are finding solutions to shared issues. Through promoting direct interaction among key players, the grant program aims to survey and analyze situations in target countries, obtain new perspectives, and expand the potential of future generations.
With multinational teams comprised of participants from diverse backgrounds, projects can avoid conventional linear relationships, such as “supporter and supported” or “instructor and trainee,” and instead form cooperative and creative alliances that consider, act on, and construct solutions to shared issues. The grant program anticipates that these partnerships, which extend beyond such factors as nationality, age, and organizational affiliation, will produce significant social change through fostering a process of mutual learning.
Grant Selection
Formal decisions on the awarding of grants will be made by the Toyota Foundation Board of Directors at a meeting to be held in late September 2024, based on the deliberations of responsible Selection Committee consisting of external experts.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Requirements
- Project representatives must be 45 years old or under on the day of the beginning of the grant.
- Project representatives must have a contact address in Japan.
- Project teams of two persons or more are eligible for the grant.
- No limitations are placed on proposals with regard to the nationality of the project representative or participants; nor is there any restriction with regard to the their affiliation (or lack thereof) with a university, research institute, NPO/NGO, or other organization.
Dates
Deadline: June 01, 2024
Cost/funding for participants
- Grant Amount (maximum per project):
- One-year project: JPY 5,000,000
- Two-year project: JPY 10,000,000
- Project Periods: One year (Nov 2024 - Oct 2025) or Two years (Nov 2024 - Oct 2026)
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
