Deadline: 10-May-22
The Australia-Japan Foundation welcomes grant applications from individuals and organizations with an interest in contributing to the bilateral relationship.
Foundation seeks to advance Australia’s engagement with Japan by supporting people-to-people linkages, amplifying and shifting perceptions of Australia in Japan to reflect contemporary Australia, and facilitating the promotion of the inventive, innovative capabilities that Australia brings to Australia-Japan collaborations across broad and ever sophisticated sectors.
They also seeks to bring to the fore, awareness of the ongoing vital importance of Australia and Japan on each other’s foreign and trade policies by facilitating informed discussions.
Funding Information and Duration
- In 2022-23, approximately $700,000 is available for this grant opportunity, subject to appropriation starting in July 2022.
- Grant applications for a minimum of $10,000 to a maximum of $40,000 per year will be considered.
- Co-contributions from applicants and other parties strengthen an application and are encouraged.
- For multi-year grants, the maximum grant period is three years.
Outcomes
The intended outcomes of the program are:
- Strengthened bilateral relationships in areas of mutual interest with particular countries and regions.
- International networks, collaboration and connections between institutions and communities to build understanding, trust and influence.
- Enhanced Australian international reputation and reach through the promotion of our economic, creative and cultural, sporting, innovation and science, and education assets.
- Increased understanding of Australians of the cultures and opportunities in each of these countries.
Eligible Projects
Examples of successful grant activities for the different priority areas are below.
- Communication, Information and Advocacy:
- The virtual presentations by Australian Indigenous performers to promote Australia and Australian Indigenous storytelling.
- Economic Diplomacy and Geopolitics:
- A project to identify and promote local governments’ innovative practices to build sustainable and resilient communities and develop new directions for Australia-Japan collaborations, with focus on the challenges faced by Australian and Japanese communities in their post-COVID-19 recovery.
- Education and Australian studies:
- A virtual upskilling program designed to support educators in a post-pandemic world and enable new partnerships between school communities in Australia and Japan.
- Scientific innovation:
- A project that aims to share the latest advances in nanotechnology between Australia and Japan for addressing global health, energy, and environmental challenges via guest lectures and joint symposium facilitated by institutions in Australia and Japan.
- Society, Culture and Sport:
- A community engagement program with schools and communities in Japan to provide education about disability awareness, and conduct practical sessions demonstrating various Paralympic sports to complement official events.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types:
- An Australian entity with an Australian Business Number (ABN), Australian Company Number (ACN), or Indigenous Corporation Number (ICN).
- An Australian consortium with a lead organization.
- An Australian registered charity or not-for-profit organization.
- An Australian local government body.
- An Australian State/Territory government body.
- A corporate Commonwealth entity.
- An Australian statutory authority.
- An Australian or permanent resident of Australia.
- A Japanese citizen or organization.
- A well-established organization in Japan with a business purpose to advocate for Australian business, education and/or cultural interests.
- Applications from consortia are acceptable, provided you have a lead applicant who is the main driver of the project.
- Individuals who intend the grant to be administered by a university should apply on behalf of the university, i.e. your university is the applicant.
- You are not eligible to apply if you are:
- An organization, or your project partner is an organization, included on the National Redress Scheme’s website on the list of ‘Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme.
- Not an Australian, a permanent resident of Australia or an Australian organization and you are not a Japanese citizen or organization.
- A previous applicant who has failed to provide a full and proper acquittal of an earlier IRGP grant.
- You may provide an interim report with the agreement of the relevant Secretariat where existing grant funding will be expended prior to the commencement of the new grant requested.
For more information, visit https://www.dfat.gov.au/people-to-people/foundations-councils-institutes/australia-japan-foundation/grants