2022 International Grant Program

Program Information for previous years

Program Objectives
Comments by Selection Committee Chair
List of Grant Projects
Grant Framework
Program Guidelines and Application Form
Briefing Sessions
Recommended Documents

Program Title: Cultivating Empathy Through Learning from Our Neighbors:
Practitioners' Exchange on Common Issues in Asia

Program Objectives

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

Comments by Selection Committee Chair

The chairperson of the selection committee provides comments on the content submitted in the previous year's application and on projects that received funding. Please take a moment to read these comments as they may be helpful for this year's application. For information on submissions made before this period, please refer to the annual reports.

List of Grant Projects


TYTID	Project Title	Project Leader	Position, Organization	Grant Amount (yen）
D22-N-0008	Project for Developing Human Resource Capacity in Pathology for Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Cambodia and Laos	Yurie Soejima	Junior Associate Professor, GraduateSchool of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University	7,000,000
D22-N-0010	Development of Joint Distance Education Program to Prepare for International Cross-border Telework Dissemination Through Mutual Learning among Japan and Asian Countries	Takashi Sekiyama	Associate Professor, Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Kyoto University	7,000,000
D22-N-0011	Mother tongue and national language education for transnational migrant children: Roles of the host country for Non-Formal Education Classes run by migrant communities in Japan	Masako Tanaka	Professor, Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University	10,000,000
D22-N-0021	Construction of an International Framework for Promoting Research Integrity in Asia and Development of Expert Human Resources	Jun Fudano	Member, Board of Directors, Association for the Promotion of Research Integrity (APRIN)	7,000,000
D22-N-0034	Promoting International Exchange and Building Education Platforms to Train Asian University Students to become Changemakers	Miki Inui	Professor/Assitant to the President, School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo	7,000,000
D22-N-0038	Establishing countermeasures for climate change adaptive agriculture in the Bengal region	Tetsuo Tsutsui	Chairperson, Share the Planet Association	8,000,000
D22-N-0042	Rediscovery and Effective Reuse of Hidden Regional Assets by Holding Citizens’ Workshops in Asian Historical Cities － For Restoration and Strengthening of Social Ties	Masafumi Fujino	Chairperson, Public Interest Incorporated Association Nara Machizukuri Center	8,000,000
D22-N-0047	Survey on the psychological burden of children with difficulties in accessing social protection and an empirical study of cross-border care methods in Bangladesh and Japan	Ryosuke Sugaya	CEO and Founder, Certified Non Profit Organization very50	8,000,000
D22-N-0087	Advancing indigenous wild gardens for healthy and biodiverse food systems in Asia: A transboundary and transdisciplinary platform for science and ethnic minority collaboration	Hart N., FEUER	Associate Professor, Faculty/Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University	8,000,000
Total 9				70,000,000

Grant Fremework


Target Countries	East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia *
Required elements for Project	Transnational, Cross Sector, Mutual Learning, Foresight
Project Period	One year (Nov 2022 – Oct 2023) or Two years (Nov 2022 – Oct 2024)
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)	One-year project: JPY 5,000,000 Two-year project: JPY 10,000,000
Total Amount of Grants	70 million yen
Proposal Submission Period	From April 1 to June 4, 2022, 11:59 p.m. 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 2022, based on the deliberations of responsible Selection Committee consisting of external experts.

※: 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
South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Please also see FAQs.

Grant Applications FAQ

Proposal Guidelines and Project Proposal Form Samples

Please review the "Grant Overview," "Post-Selection Committee Chairman Evaluation," "List of Grant Recipients," "Reference Materials," etc. mentioned above. Once you have done so, please download the application guidelines, sample proposal, etc., and apply via the application entry.
※The application closed on June 3, 2023. Thank you for your interest.


Format	Item	Remarks
PDF	Project Proposal Guidelines
PDF	Application Form (Sample)	*The blank word file is available after registering applicant information.
Application Form	Application Entry	<The application period has ended>

Briefing Sessions

Online briefing sessions in Tokyo (not compulsory) *The language will be in Japanese.


April 8, 2022 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (JST) Application closed
April 19, 2022 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (JST) Application closed

Please check the main questions and answers at the briefing session in April 2022 here.

Aside from the briefing session, applicants can consult with the program officers of the Toyota Foundation in advance of applying via email.
Please refer to the Project Proposal Guidelines for the details and read the FAQ.

Recommended Movies


Format	Item	Remarks
Movie	Online Luncheon Seminar 2021: "Ethics and Logics of International Collaborative Projects"	In this series of seminars, we not only introduced the content of the projects, but also discussed the underlying ethics and logics of these projects in depth with experts, and disseminated the content to those who were interested in.
Movie	Online Luncheon Seminar 2020: "Learning from Each Other in the Age of COVID-19: Human Mobility and the Future of Multicultural Society"	Grantees of the Toyota Foundation's International Grant Program and the Special Subject Program "Migrants and Japanese Society", discussed the impact of COVID-19 on their projects, as well as changes and issues related to international human mobility and shared their knowledge and experience, in line with the keywords of "Medical Care and Nursing Care" and "Information and Institution”.