International Grant Program 2017 

Cultivating Empathy Through Learning from Our Neighbors: Practitioners’ Exchange on Common Issues in Asia

http://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/program/asian_neighbors.html

COUNTRIES

East Asia: China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, South Korea, Mongolia, Japan

Southeast Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam

Application language: English & Japanese

DEADLINE: 20 June 2017

GRANT SIZE:

One year (Nov 2017 to Oct 2018): 44,500 USD 

Two years (Nov 2017 to Oct 2019): 89,000 USD

DESCRIPTION

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.

Thematic areas:

A. Multigenerational and Multicultural Inclusion in Communities

B. Creating New Culture: Toward a Common Platform for Asia

C. Open Field

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; and 

4) submit the “Record of Change.”

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants, including the project representative and members must be:

- Individuals in multiple target countries with practical experience in such areas as conducting research, carrying out activities, producing creative works and making policy proposals.

- A team or broad network to multiple target countries that is composed of members such as practitioners, project participants, researchers, creators, policy makers, and journalists and other media representatives.

- Capable of carrying out a project with a diverse network of participants across multiple target countries.

Web-based application via Foundation website only.

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 2017, based on the deliberations of responsible Selection Committee consisting of external experts.

For more information:

International Grants Group (Mr. Kenta Kusuda, Mr. Hideo Tone, Ms. Michiru Sasagawa, Ms. Yoko Terasaki), The Toyota Foundation

P.O. Box 236, Shinjuku Mitsui Building 37F

2-1-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku

Tokyo, Japan 163-0437

Phone: +81 (0)3 3344 1701 Fax: +81 (0)3 3342 6911

Inquiry: asianneighbors@toyotafound.or.jp