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From the Foundation
update：January 28, 2022
The Toyota Foundation's International Grant Program
has been providing grants under the theme of "Cultivating Empathy Through Learning from Our Neighbors: Practitioners' Exchange on Common Issues in Asia". We support projects in which people from diverse backgrounds and multiple sectors work together as colleagues to tackle the issues that Asian societies are facing and build partnerships that lead to social changes.
While there are projects handling a wide range of themes and methods, there should be certain ethics and logics (philosophies, ways of thinking, points of implementation, common obstacles, etc.) that all projects will face when implementing international collaborative projects. In this series of seminars, we will not only introduce the content of the projects, but also discuss the underlying ethics and logics of these projects in depth with experts, and disseminate the content to those who are interested in.
The series of events are live-streamed for registered participants. Later its full archive and digest movies are available on our YouTube channel.
You can watch our other English contents on here.
【Outline of the Seminar】
Session 1: What is collaboration?
Live stream: August 3 / Language: Japanese
Speakers:
Tokihiko Fujimoto (Associate Professor, School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University) and Isamu Ishii (Gokase Renewable Energy Company)
Projects: D19-N-0043, D14-N-0064
Yuko Harada (Field Study Division Manager, Cross Fields) and Sayumi Nishikawa (New Initiative Leader, Cross Fields)
Projects: D19-N-0103, D17-N-0280
Moderator:
Shigeto Sonoda (Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo/ the Toyota Foundation IGP Selection Committee Chair)
Session 2: How to create a place for collaboration
Live stream: August 27 / Language: Japanese
Speakers:
Arihiro Minoo (Associate Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University) and Mio Nogawa (Executive Director, Alternative People’s Linkage in Asia (APLA))
Project: D16-N-0157
Yuichi Watanabe (Secretary General, The Laboratory for Global Dialogue) and Makiko Nakagawa (Director, The Laboratory for Global Dialogue)
Projects: D17-N-0256, D20-N-0138
Moderator:
Ryoko Kida (Executive Director, Machida City Community Activity Support Office/ Former Program Officer of the Toyota Foundation)
Session 3: Working with various stakeholders in a community
Live stream: September 15 / Language: Japanese
Speakers:
Atsushi Yano (Researcher, AKY Inclusive Community Institute LLC) and Geerhardt Kornatowski (Associate Professor, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Global Society, Kyushu University)
Project: D17-N-0048
Kiyoko Kanki (Professor, Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University) and Megumi Nabata (Representative Director, NPO Partnering to Nurture Community Engawa Design)
Project: D18-N-0183
Moderator:
Ryoko Kida (Executive Director, Machida City Community Activity Support Office/ Former Program Officer of the Toyota Foundation)
Session 4: How to develop the capability to manage collaboration
Live stream: October 25
Language: English (Simultaneous Japanese/English interpretation available)
Speakers:
Pham Kieu Oanh (Founder and CEO, Centre for Social Initiatives Promotion (CSIP)) and Sunit Shrestha (Founder and Managing Director, ChangeFusion)
Project: D18-N-0198
Ken Ito (Director, East Asia, Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN)) and Patsian Low (Chief of Staff, AVPN)
Project: D20-N-0095
Moderator:
Shigeto Sonoda (Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo/ the Toyota Foundation IGP Selection Committee Chair)