Deadline: 4 September 2015
The Toyota Foundation is seeking applicants for its Research Grant Program entitled “Exploring New Values for Society” in order to contribute towards the realization of a more people-oriented society and a resulting increase in human happiness.
The foundation provides grants in support of research and operations in order to respond to a diverse array of social issues, with a focus on areas of human and natural environment, social welfare, and education and culture.
The grants will be provided in two categories:
- Joint Research Grants
- Individual Research Grants
The objective of the program is to explore basic ideas and methodology on what approach we should take to address difficult issues to be faced in the future and on what society we should aim to reach and disseminate their findings so that they can be shared as new values for society.
Size of Grants
- Joint Research Grants – The total allocated grant amount is 80 million yen approximately.
- Individual Research Grants- The total allocated grant amount is 20 million yen approximately.
Goals
- Establishing a cross-generational ethics to consider how natural resources, energy sources, and a rich natural environment can be passed down to future generations; anticipating the environmental problems of the future, as well as developing a methodology for solutions; designing social and economic systems for sustainable development within the limits of natural resources and the environment, and formulating indices to gauge human welfare as the basis for those systems
- Disclosing ideas of how to appropriately share the burdens resulting from natural and manmade disasters; assembling a methodology on how to minimize and disperse the risks associated with future disasters
- Elucidating the principles of distributive justice to address the expansion of social disparities and inequality, as well as the increasing disequilibrium between localities; building basic perspective on how to revive the functioning of communities and alleviate social isolation
- Seeking an overarching conceptual framework regarding human rights, equality, and justice that encompasses people of different standpoints and cultures ; formulating a concept for the formation of new communities in which a diverse range of people can live in harmony; establishing new ideas on conflict resolution and prevention and peace building
- Proposing new ideas on how to preserve native cultures and histories and pass them on to future generations; alternatively, reevaluating cultures and histories to enhance consideration of issues society is likely to face in the future
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants can be from any country and their projects should be founded on creative concepts that reflect a youthful perspective.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit Toyota Foundation Grants.
