The Toyota Foundation

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

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.

• Comments by the Selection Committee Chair on the International Grant Program 2016

TYTID	Project Title	Project Leader	Position, Organization	Grant Amount (yen）
A. Multigenerational and Multicultural Inclusion in Communities
D16-N-0007	Combined Solution for Dementia Care via Nursing and Medical Treatment, along with a Creative Plan for Building an Elderly-Oriented Society	Qing Wang	Representative, Japan-China Welfare Planning	4,000,000
D16-N-0034	The Decent Work Promotion Project for Immigrant Youth Empowerment in Japan and South Korea	Songil Kim	President, Kobe Foreigners Friendship Center	8,000,000
D16-N-0059	Holistic and Comprehensive Strategy for the Asian Ageing Society from the Perspective of "Active Ageing": Implication from the Experiences in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand	Hiroko Miura	Department Director, National Institute of Public Health, Japan	6.500,000
D16-N-0074	Attitudes Towards Language Choice and Ethnicity: Multigenerational Divergence and Rapprochement	Chong Shin	Associate Professor, University Kebangsaan Malaysia	4,500,000
D16-N-0113	Strengthening Social Engagement in Elderly Care in Changing Economic and Family Structure in Asia: Policy and Practical Dialogues Between Local Communities in Vietnam and Japan	Tran Thi Minh Thi	Deputy Director, Institute for Family and Gender Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences	6,500,000
D16-N-0121	Recognizing and Promoting the Value of Former Generations' Domestic and Community Contribution to Nutrition, Health and Family Balance in Disadvantaged Urban Areas	Hart Feuer	Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Kyoto University	4,000,000
Subtotal 6				33500000
B. Creating New Culture: Toward a Common Platform for Asia
D16-N-0033	Design and Art Exhibition Consortium of a New Style in Asia Using the Various Cultural Climates of Country and Landscape	Tadamori Fujisawa	Associate Professor, Showa Womens University	7,500,000
D16-N-0077	Creation of Sustainable Development Model of the Village Through the Use of Housing and Dwelling Culture	Ikuro Shimizu	Professor, Department of Architecture and Building Engineering, School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology	7,000,000
D16-N-0162	The Improvement of Literacy Towards the Conservation of Urban Heritage in the ASEAN 5 Countries	Shin　Muramatsu	Professor, The Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo	7,500,000
D16-N-0185	Practice of Co-Learning for Community Based Tourism in Sambor Prei Kuk, Cambodia and in Najyo Okinawa Through an Online Experience Sharing and a Social Platform	Mai Yoshikawa	Founder, Napura-works.Co., Ltd.	4,200,000
D16-N-0197	Creating a New Environment of Raising Children Through the Creativity of Art	Shingo Yamano	Director, Koganecho Area Management Center	4,200,000
D16-N-0201	Bamboo Workshop Manual Making Towards Redefining the Value of Traditional Lifestyle in Rural Japan and the Philippines	Ayaka Yamashita	Director, EDAYA	4,000,000
Subtotal 6				34,400,000
C. Open Field
D16-N-0013	Collaboration among Stakeholders for Adjustment of Forest Policies to International Framework to Reduce CO2 Emission	Makoto Inoue	Professor, Department of Global Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo	7,800,000
D16-N-0062	Promoting Employment of People with Disabilities in Japan and Indonesia: Building an Inclusive and Sustainable Society	Yuka Matsushima	Co-Founder and Vice President, CROSS FIELDS	4,000,000
D16-N-0073	Joint Research on the Situation and Support for Offender's Families in Asia: Focus on Japan, Korea and Taiwan	Kyoko Abe	President, NPO World Open Heart	4,500,000
D16-N-0128	Diversity and Commonalities of Birth from Women's Voice Sharing	Naoko Arimori	Professor, Niigata University	7,500,000
D16-N-0157	Project for Fostering Youth Farmers' Leaders Toward the Practice of 'Natural Circularity Agriculture' in the Cash Crop Cultivating Areas	Arihiro Minoo	Assistant Professor, Toyo University／Director, NPO APLA	4,300,000
D16-N-0210	Empowering Intercultural Youth from Creative Approach	Shuko Ebihara	Founder, kuriya	4,000,000
Subtotal 6				32,100,000
Total 18				100,000,000

For details of each project, please move to our "Search Projects" page, and search by each project's TYTID (for example: D16-N-00XX).

Please read through the Guidelines for details.

Target Countries	East and Southeast Asia *1
Thematic Areas	A. Multigenerational and Multicultural Inclusion in Communities B. Creating New Culture: Toward a Common Platform for Asia C. Open Field
Project Period	One year (Nov 2016 – Oct 2017) or Two years (Nov 2016 – Oct 2018)
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 addressing issues; 3) produce and disseminate tangible output, such as policy proposals, guidelines, photo and video works, and reports; and 4) submit the “Record of Change.”
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)	a) One-year project: JPY 5,000,000 (approx. USD 44,500); b) Two-year project: JPY 10,000,000 (approx. USD 89,000)
Total Amount of Grants	100 million yen
Project Proposal Period	From April 11th to June 10th, 2016 3pm 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 2016, based on the deliberations of responsible Selection Committee consisting of external experts.

*1 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



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• Proposal Guidelines(963KB)
• Application Form (Sample)(188KB)

Application closed on June 10, 2016.