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International Grant Program: Cultivating Empathy Through Learning from Our Neighbors: Practitioners’ Exchange on Common Issues in Asia
1 April, 2021 - 5 June, 2021
Program Objectives
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.
Grant Framework
Please read through the Guidelines for details.
| Target
Countries |
East and Southeast Asia *1 |
| Required
elements for Project |
Transnational, Cross Sector, Mutual Learning, Foresight |
| Project Period | Two-Year Grant (Nov 2021 – Oct 2023) One-Year Grant (Nov 2021 – Oct 2022) |
| Expected Output |
Projects are required to; 1) identify issues and conduct a review by surveying and analyzing the situation in target countries; 2) carry out activities aimed at providing solutions to issues; 3) produce and disseminate tangible output |
| Potential Applicants |
Diverse team based in multiple target countries. 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. |
| Grant Amount (maximum per project) | Two-Year Grant: JPY 10,000,000 One-Year Grant: JPY 3,000,000 |
| Total Amount of Grants |
70 million yen |
| Proposal Submission Period | From April 1 to June 5, 2021, 23:59 Japan Standard Time |
| Applications | Web-based application via Foundation website only |
| Selection of Grants |
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 2021, based on the deliberations of responsible Selection Committee consisting of external experts |
*1 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
Please visit our website for more information.
https://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/international/2021/
Frequently asked questions of 2020 are available here.
https://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/faq/international.html
Please note that as the qualification for application, the project representative must have a contact address in Japan.
Source: https://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/international/2021/
