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Please note the changes in the program from the previous year.



Program Title: "Exploring New Values for Society"

The main topic of Research Grant Program 2018, titled “Exploring New Values for Society”, supports ambitious projects that adopt a panoramic view of the world and look generations into the future in order to seek new values for society by fundamentally exploring novel philosophies and arts 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.

• Comments by the Selection Committee Chair on Research Grant Program 2018
• Previous comments are available in the Annual Report.
  

Grant Number	Project Title	Project Representative	Organization/Position	Grant Amount(yen)
D18-R-0022	Translating Bosai Values: Investigating the Role of ‘Playfulness’ in Disaster Cooperation between Japan and Chile	Chika Watanabe	University of Manchester,Lecturer	6,000,000
D18-R-0082	The Contribution of School Making Through Collaborative Process Towards Local Communities in Rural Area of China	Fan Yi	Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University,Assistant Prof.	5,800,000
D18-R-0117	Fostering Future Leaders: Comparative Study of Nonprofit and Philanthropic Education in East Asia and the West	Aya Okada	Tohoku University,Associate Professor	5,500,000
D18-R-0122	How do ecosystems of social businesses contribute to their oraganizational persistence and career developpments of their enterpreneurs and staffs: Comparing social networks at four cities in Japan and Korea.	Akira Yonezawa	Meiji gakuin University, Department of Sociology,Associate Professor	6,000,000
D18-R-0133	Establishment of general method to assess regional economic cycle of Regional Revitalization projects and development of new tool that can evaluate	Kenji Inagaki	Tokyo Metropolitan Government	3,700,000
D18-R-0136	Interdisciplinary research on autism across philosophy, medical science and psychoanalysis with a view to creating a new concept of 'diversity'.	Koichiro Kokubun	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Institute for Liberal Arts,Professor	2,800,000
D18-R-0156	Practical research to archive oral records of sexual minority movements	Sachie Tsuruta	Chiba University,Asociate Professor	5,800,000
D18-R-0281	Generation After: The Reconstitution of Kinship and Family Relations in Post-Genocide Rwanda	Ms. Loes Loning	School for African & Gender Studies, Anthropology & Linguistics, University of Cape Town, South Africa,Doctoral Researcher	1,400,000
D18-R-0303	Development of educational tools for inheriting the pathways of health improvement in postwar Japan	Marika Nomura	Japan International Cooperation Agency, Department of Human Development,Senior Advisor (Nutrition and Health)	5,800,000
D18-R-0310	The research for mental health support of people who support disabled people.	Mariko　Okishio	Shohoku College,a full‐time lecture	5,800,000
D18-R-0325	Fukushima's memories for the future - "Support Book connecting parent and child" and handing down stories by experience -	Mitsuru Matsutani	Faculty of Contemporary Sociology, Chokyo University,Associate professor	5,800,000
D18-R-0360	How to enhance the autonomy of the laborers engaged in jobs created by the welfare-agriculture cooperation: applying the experience of the farmer-consumer partnership called "teikei"	Tsunashima Hiroyuki	Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University,Designated lecturer	5,600,000

• List of Grants for Research Grant Program 2017

Call for Proposals	June 4 to August 3, 2018 (Proposal Submission Period: Monday, July 23 to Friday, August 3, 2018 until 3:00 p.m. Japan Standard Time)
Total Amount of Grants	60 million yen
Grant Amount per Project	Up to 8 million yen
Length of Grant	Two years, beginning May 1, 2019
Requirements	In principle, project teams of three persons or more are eligible for the grant. (Proposals by teams of two persons or less shall be accepted in cases where it is difficult to organize a team of three persons due to reasons such as the novelty of the social issues targeted by the project.)
	Project representatives must be 45 years old or under on the day of the beginning of the grant.
	No restrictions are placed on proposals with regard to the areas of research or the methods employed; nor is there any limitation with regard to the nationality or place of residence of the project representative or participants, or their affiliation (or lack thereof) with a university, research institute, NPO/NGO, or other organization.
Grant Selection	Formal decisions on the awarding of grants will be made at the Toyota Foundation Board of Directors meetings scheduled to be held in March 2019, based on the deliberations of a selection committee composed of outside experts.

※ Application closed on August 3, 2018. Thank you for your interest.

• Proposal Guidelines 2018(451KB)
  
  
• Project Proposal Form Sample(349KB)
  
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• Special Article "Selection Committee Members Talk with Grantee"(701KB)

Special Topic
Program Title: "Co-Creating New Society with Advanced Technologies" 

This new grant program supports projects tackling social issues arising from rapid development of advanced technologies such as AI and IoT. For details, please visit our Japanese site at http://www.toyotafound.or.jp/research/2018/

*"Co-Creating New Society with Advanced Technologies" application forms are only available in Japanese.

• Comments by the Selection Committee Chair on Research Grant Program 2018

Grant Number	Project Title	Project Representative	Organization/Position	Grant Amount
D18-ST-0005	Harmonisation towards the establishment of Person-centred, Robotics-aided Care System (HARP: RoCS)	Naonori Kodate	University College Dublin/ Assistant Professor in Social Policy	8,200,000
D18-ST-0008	Building platform on ethics and governance of artificial intelligence	Arisa Ema	Institute for Future Initiatives/ Project Assistant Professor	7,000,000
D18-ST-0028	Management tasks for promotion of digital transformation in the social welfare municipally organization	Kota Takaoka	Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology/ Researcher	7,500,000
D18-ST-0040	The relationship between human and social agent from care ethics and the social implications	Reina Saijo	Kyoto University of Art and Design/ Part-time research fellow	3,000,000
D18-ST-0043	“Fudo”-nization of Advanced technology: How to imagine plausible future of human-computer interdependency	Terukazu Kumazawa	Research Institute for Humanity and Nature/ Associate Professor	4,800,000
D18-ST-0051	Study of legislative Issues on the Development and Problems of Social System that Utilize Advanced Technology - Utilization of Artificial Intelligence and Acceptance of Society ・ Law ・ Technology and Ethics ?	Mayu Terada	International Christian University College of Liberal Arts/ Associate Professor	5,200,000
D18-ST-0058	Building a Fact-Check Networking System to prevent the dissemination of mis/disinformation online	Hitofumi Yanai	FactCheck Initiative Japan/ Executive Director	4,300,000

Call for Proposals	October 15 to December 2, 2018
Total Amount of Grants	40 million yen
Grant Amount per Project	Up to 10 million yen
Length of Grant	One to three years, beginning May 1, 2019
Grant Selection	Formal decisions on the awarding of grants will be made at the Toyota Foundation Board of Directors Meeting scheduled to be held in March 2019, based on the deliberations of a selection committee composed of outside experts.