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

The Toyota Foundation and the University of Tokyo Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI) has established a new partnership programme under the theme of “Interlinkages and Innovation for Future Societies” and wish to recruits researchers who will conduct research to transform social systems since FY2021.

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Since 2021, the Toyota Foundation Research Grant Program has invited proposals for research projects that ambitiously address the challenges of issues focused on diverse connections (interlinkages), including those of people with people, people with nature, and people with things/technology to design a new future, based on the theme “Interlinkages and Innovation for Future Societies.” This is based on the belief that in order to realize an affluent and harmonious world, we need to fundamentally reexamine our existing social systems and how human beings relate to the natural environment, things, and technology and envisage the future from the perspective of interlinkages.

While there have been no changes to the basic approach this year, the Research Grant Program will provide greater-than-ever support for research projects that have an impact on society and attempt to create waves of changes to face these turbulent and difficult times. In evaluating research project proposals, the program will emphasize factors including the interdisciplinary nature of the research, the diversity of the research participants, and how the research results will give back and apply to society. The program invites proposals for bold and ambitious research projects that transcend conventional research activities, which often only contribute to the academic world, to address social issues with a robust approach that encourages the transformation of social systems and envisage the future with free-thinking perspectives unconstrained by existing values.

* “Researchers” in the grant program are defined as various individuals engaged in research activities, without being limited to researchers affiliated with a university or research institution. In addition, although our Research Grant Program encourages research projects that incorporate practice going beyond the academic framework, it asks them to raise issues, propose solutions, develop theories on phenomena with an eye on the future, rather than being for the purpose of practice itself. Please consider applying to the Grant Program for Community Activities in Japan for projects that are aimed at practice or implementation. For more details, please contact the Toyota Foundation staff.

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.

• Comments by the Selection Committee Chair on the Research Grant Program 2023
• Annual Report.

• Shows a list

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 9, 2023. Thank you for your interest.

Online Briefing Sessions (not compulsory)

• Apply for participation

• The maximum participants is 100 for each session.
• The online briefing sessions will be held in Japanese only.
• Registration deadlines for each briefing settion is set at noon of the preceding day. Therefore, the Zoom information will be sent to the registered emails on the preceding day.

Aside from the briefing session, applicants can make an appointment of consultation with the program officers of the Toyota Foundation. Please refer to the program guidelines for the details. consultation ended

Outline of the Grant Selection Schedule in 2023

We held a grantee's workshop on August 21, 2022. You can watch the whole program of the workshop on YouTube Toyota Foundation Channel. * The workshop is in Japanese.