Toyota Foundation - Japan:
Research Grants: The Search for the Richness of Human Life and Activity
- http://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/03entry/e_gd_kjp_kenkyu.html
- Fund Type: Grant. Residential: No. Eligibility: Unrestricted/Multiple Eligibility; Applications are accepted regardless of nationality, gender, educational background, etc. Applicants must, however, have a certain level of project management ability (such as schedule management, cultivation of a common approach to problems within the project team, coordination of team members' roles, and communication with the foundation).
Those who apply to this program this fiscal year as project coordinators cannot at the same time apply to the Asian Neighbors Network Program as project leaders..
- Award: The maximum grant amount is 20 million yen for both one- and two-year projects, and the total budget for research grants is 150 million yen.
- Deadline: 5/10/2008
- Details: n 2008, the Toyota Foundation Research Grant Program will focus on "Revitalizing Local Communities Under Globalization." The foundation solicits proposals for cross-disciplinary survey and basic research projects that are firmly oriented toward problem resolution and have the potential to posit answers to the question of whether, amid the tide of globalization, local communities can harness their latent vitality by flexibly restructuring themselves while actively reevaluating their relationships with the state and the international community.
Rather than short-term prescriptions, the Toyota Foundation hopes to receive proposals that take a broad perspective by addressing key questions for the near future, such as the direction in which communities should seek to move Japan and the international community and, at the same time, how communities can redefine their relationships with the Japanese state and the world at large. This is based on the foundation's belief that it is almost impossible for a closed or isolated community to survive in today's world.
The Toyota Foundation suggests that projects address the following research topics:
1. Human resources development
2. Institutional change
3. Creation and recreation of symbols and culture
4. New capital flows
5. Forming bases for community restructuring
6. New flows of human resourcesThe topics are listed in no particular order, and proposals that address multiple topics are welcome. It is not a problem if a project does not belong to one of the fields listed, provided it has a convincing connection to the aims of the program as described above.
- Keywords: Community Development or Revitalization; Cultural Diversity; Environmental Sciences; Global Change; Globalization; Human Resources
Science - Humanistic Emphasis; Science and Society; Social Change; Social Organization; Social Structures