The Toyota Foundation: Research Grant Program 2016

 

Research Grant Program 2016, titled "Exploring New Values for Society", provides two grant frameworks respectively for joint research projects and individual research projects that can be expected to lead to "creation of new values for society". For both frameworks, the program solicits ambitious research projects that explore basic ways of thinking and methodologies to address difficult issues to be faced by future society; issues that are on a global scale; issues that transcend generations; and nascent problems that will only fully manifest themselves in the future. Link: https://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/program/research.html

Public Notification Period	May 16 to September 2, 2016
Total Amount of Grants	100 million yen (Joint Research Grants: Approx. 80 million yen. Individual Research Grants: Approx. 20 million yen.)
Amount of Grant per Project	Joint Research Grants: Up to 4 million yen per year Individual Research Grants: Up to 1 million yen per year
Period of Grants	One year or two years, beginning May 1, 2017
Project Proposal Requirements	No limitations are placed on proposals with regard to the nationality or place of residence 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.
Grant Categories	(A) Joint Research Grants (B) Individual Research Grants
Selection of Grants	Formal decisions on the awarding of grants will be made at the Toyota Foundation Board of Directors meetings scheduled to be held in March 2017, based on the deliberations of a selection committee composed of outside experts.

Grants for Research Grant Program Fiscal 2015

Comments by the Selection Committee Chair on the Research Grant Program

Grant Number	Project Title	Project Representative	Position, Organization	Grant Amount
(A) Joint Research Grants
D15-R-0009	Assessment of the Mid- to Long-term Health Effects of Japan's 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Toward disaster-resilient health care systems	Shuhei Nomura	Graduate Student, School of Public Health, Imperial College London	1,200,000
D15-R-0158	Revitalization and Sutainability of Communities in Historic Cairo Based on their Historical Monuments and Traditional Habitats	Naoko Fukami	Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Research Station, Cairo	6,200,000
D15-R-0213	A Comprehensive Study of War Memory and History Education: The roles of historians in the confidence building and training of global talents in the Asia Pacific Region	Xiaohua Ma	Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Sciences, Osaka Kyoiku University	4,000,000
D15-R-0234	International Collaborative Investigation of Underlying Technology to Develop Information Exchange Platform with Hair Dresser/Barber for Successful Aging in Thailand and Japan	Sachiko Makabe	Lecturer, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, Akita University	6,600,000
D15-R-0262	Activation of Exchanges by Local and Practical Distributive Justice in a Gap Widening Society: Exploring new values for society based on convivial human science	Yuji Moro	Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba	6,500,000
D15-R-0331	Exploring the Art of Living Together in 21st Century Ethnically Diverse Europe: Fostering strong sense of belonging, living in harmony with one another, and integrating refugees	Ivan Botev	Lecturer, Faculty of Regional Development Studies, Toyo University	2,000,000
D15-R-0369	Understanding the Reorganisation of the Marginalised Labour Market in Contemporary Japan from Migrants' Perspectives: Towards building new support systems	Hironori Sai	Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Design and Sociology, Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University	4,600,000
D15-R-0447	Women's Participation to Decision Making Process of Medical Interventions during Labour in Cambodia: Does it effectively reduce unnecessary interventions and improve maternal and neonatal health?	Mitsuaki Matsui	Associate Professor, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University	6,200,000
D15-R-0452	Construction of Archives that Contribute to Inheritance and its Use of Memory of War, and Research of the New Possibility of the Peaceful Learning Based on it: To bring up a heart to desire peace	Hiroyuki Sato	Associate Professor, Education, Law, Economics and the Humanities Area, Research and Education Assembly, Kagoshima University	6,500,000
D15-R-0475	The Approach to Dissemination of New Preservation Technologies for Disaster Damaged Archives	Mutsumi Aoki	Associate Professor, National Institute of Japanese Literature	5,600,000
D15-R-0519	An Empirical Study on the Self-governing Conditions of How a Small Municipality Can Keep its Inherence and Sustainability: An interdisciplinary comparative analysis on the transitions of governance, landscape, and public spheres in the villages in Japan, Germany, and France since 1960s	Keijiro Yamada	Associate Professor, College of Environmental Engineering and Architecture, Kanazawa Institute of Technology	4,600,000
D15-R-0590	The Role of Volunteers in Long-term Disaster Recovery: Facilitating co-production for resilient communities	Deborah Blackman	Professor, School of Business, University of New South Wales	4,000,000
D15-R-0631	Reconsidering the Future of Language Education Based on the Significance of a Language that Shapes One's Whole Life Course	Roman Pașca	Lecturer, Japanese Studies Research Institute, Kanda University of International Studies	4,800,000
D15-R-0637	Understanding Japan as a Multi-cultural and Multi-lingual Society: Establishing objective criteria for measuring mutual intelligibility and intergenerational transmission of the endangered languages	Masahiro Yamada	Program Specific Assistant Professor, Center for the Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research, Kyoto University	6,500,000
D15-R-0643	Construction of the Sanriku Coast Village Archive Towards the Formation of Autonomous Communities by the Cooperative of History Researchers and a Photographer	Kentaro Okamura	Assistant Lecturer, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo	3,000,000
D15-R-0656	Reconstruction of the Mental Health and Welfare System in a Polyphyletic Recycling Society: Through comparison of the classification of the policies	Yuki Ogata	Professor, Faculty of Social Welfare, Bukkyo University	2,800,000
D15-R-0699	Toward Integration of Time and Space in Lifelong Learning: From the field of Dosenbo area, Kyoto	Yasushi Maehira	Professor, Faculty of Education, Kio University	6,000,000
Sub Total 17				81,100,000
(B) Individual Research Grants
D15-R-0015	An Anthropological Study about Ethnic Identity of Siraya Tribe in Taiwan: A case study centering revival of indigenous people's handicrafts through museum collections	Yiping Lu	Graduate Student, School of Cultural and Social Studies, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies	1,600,000
D15-R-0022	The New Stakeholder in Reforestaton Activity for the Greater Sustainability in the Aral Region, Kazakhstan: Focusing on the cultural and social background of the region	Kayo Matsui	Graduate Student, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University	1,700,000
D15-R-0040	Identification of Mycorrhizal Fungi in (Potential) Mycoheterotrophic Plants: Implication for conservation of species-rich underground biotic networks	Kenji Suetsugu	Lecturer, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University	1,600,000
D15-R-0067	Protecting the Commons and Sustainable Development: Fishers' perceptions as performance indicator of Philippine marine reserves	Ronald J. Maliao	Instructor, College of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, Aklan State University	1,300,000
D15-R-0091	Development of Management Methods to Conserve Cymbidium Goeringii in SATOYAMA: Clarification of its inhabiting processes and scientific verification after improvement of SATOYAMA by tree thinning	Hiroyuki Kurokochi	Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Asian Natural Environmental Science Center, The University of Tokyo	1,500,000
D15-R-0129	Labour Migration, Transnational Farm Ownership, and the Transformation of Global Agriculture: Identifying pathways to intercultural connection and shared belonging in changing rural spaces	Victoria Stead	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Deakin Universitｙ	700,000
D15-R-0169	"Invisible" Function of International Human Rights Laws: Reconstructing moral and social norms	Hoko Horii	Graduate Student, Van Vollenhoven Institute/KITLV, Leiden University	1,700,000
D15-R-0206	Historical Analysis of Legal Position of Schools for Foreigners in Post-World War II Japan: To build an education system in the time of globalization	Yongho O	Part-time Lecturer, Tokyo Gakugei University	1,200,000
D15-R-0242	The Ethics of Listening: Regarding the pain of war in Colombia	Juan Pablo Aranguren Romero	Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of los Andes	1,400,000
D15-R-0243	Observing the Conception of Nature in Contemporary Japan through Marine Conservation Activity by Fishermen	Izumi Tsurita	Graduate Student, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo	600,000
D15-R-0324	Collaborative Archaeological Site Management: Exploring a new value of cultural heritage through a collaboration with local communities in Sudan	Tomomi Fushiya	Graduate Student, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University	800,000
D15-R-0448	Comparative Study of Global Citizenship Education in Secondary Education: Practical research at domestic and IB schools in Germany and Austria	Reiko Maejima	Graduate Student, Department of Oriental Studies, University of Vienna	1,600,000
D15-R-0543	The Power of "Self-Documentary" (Personal Documentary Films) to Reflect the "Everyday World "after the Great East Japan Earthquake: The process of sharing disaster experiences and fostering "insiders" through filmmaking by the citizens in post 3.11 Japan	Tomoko Niwa	Project Assistant Professor, National Institutes for the Humanities	1,600,000
D15-R-0613	Managing Festivity in the Contemporary Age: An action research through mutual interactions and networking of the organizers of rock festivals in Japan	Sho Yamasaki	Graduate Student, Graduate School of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University	900,000
D15-R-0650	"Enemies"Become Friends: Designing education activities that build understanding and positive attitudes among migrant students and Thai students	Thithimadee Arphattananon	Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University	700,000
Sub Total 15				18,900,000
Total 32				100,000,000