Deadline: 15-Sep-21
The Japan Foundation is offering a Grant Program for Enhancing People-to-People Exchange to support exchange / collaborative projects, that are implemented mainly by ASEAN countries and Japan participants, and that do not involve the movement of people across countries.
The Japan Foundation is Japan’s principal independent administrative institution dedicated to carrying out cultural exchange initiatives throughout the world. The Asia Center, established in April 2014, is a division within the Foundation that conducts and supports collaborative initiatives with its Asian—primarily ASEAN—counterparts.
Through interacting and working together in Japanese-language education, arts and culture, sports, and grassroots and intellectual exchange, the Asia Center pursues to develop the sense of kinship and coexistence as neighboring inhabitants of Asia.
Eligible Projects
- Live distribution Example: Performances in Japan and Southeast Asia, live distribution of lectures, etc.
- Archive Example: Creating a platform for archiving works that have been jointly produced by Japanese and Southeast Asian artists.
- Critique platform Example: Virtual workshops, mentor guidance, etc. on criticisms of movies and plays in Japan and Southeast Asia.
- Translation / publication Example: Japanese and Southeast Asian works (fictions, plays, essays, etc.) are translated into various languages ??and published online.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations based in Japan are eligible.
- They do not subsidize individuals.
For more information, visit https://grant-fellowship-db.jfac.jp/en/people-to-people/