Under the theme of “Cultivating Empathy Through Learning from Our Neighbors: Practitioners’ Exchange on Common Issues in Asia,” the international grant program has been based on the method of direct mutual visits between practitioners as the foundation of the program. However, as the coronavirus pandemic from the beginning of 2020 has reduced the number of opportunities to meet others face-to-face and much communication is now done online. There is a need to reconsider the significance of mutual exchange, which is the foundation of the program, as well as the empathy expected from it.

Against this backdrop, under the theme of "Let’s Talk about Empathy - Conversations Between the Grantees," series of dialogues featured discussions on how to understand empathy through projects and how to use it to solve social issues, etc. as well as reports on the outline of grant projects in the categories of Education, Power of Design, and Health and Care.

This report provides an overview of the projects undertaken by the speakers and a summary of the discussion points. The PDF file is available here(1624KB).

The digest movies are available on our YouTube channel.