Deadline: 15 January 2016
Kyoto University’s Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) is seeking proposals for collaborative research projects that are in line with its mission to carry out “academic research on natural hazards. and multidisciplinary studies for disaster mitigation”.
DPRI promote practical research for disaster reduction to meet the urgent needs of society, by integrating various research fields related to disaster reduction.
Research Areas
- great earthquake disasters
- meteorological disasters
- volcanic disasters
- science of disaster risk reduction
Eligibility Criteria
- Faculty members or researchers from national university corporations, public/private universities, and national/public research institutes are eligible as well as equivalent researchers from domestic and foreign research institutes.
- Graduate students (doctoral course) are eligible to be PI for the Long-term/Short-term Research Visits, New Exploratory Research, and Joint Usage of DPRI Facilities/Equipment. Administrative staff of local government is eligible to be PI for the Implementation Science Research for Regional Communities (General)
How to Apply
Interested applicants may send their application forms the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit Collaborative Research.
