International Grant Program 2024

Description

1) Objective

The grant program focuses on deepening mutual understanding and knowledge-sharing among people on the ground in East and Southeast 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.

2) Eligibility

Diverse team based in multiple target countries are preferred. Team members could include those with practical experience and knowledge on addressing issues in the target countries, such as practitioners, researchers, creators, policy makers, and journalists and other media representatives.

3) Location

Actions must take place in East Asia: Japan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, South Korea, Mongolia; Southeast Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam.

4) Budget

The total funding amount is 70 million yen. Funding may range from Two-Year Grant: JPY 10,000,000 to One-Year Grant: JPY 5,000,000.

5) Application

The application deadline is 1 June 2024. All application templates and guidelines can be downloaded from the given website.