Small grants to promote research links between UK and Japan

Daiwa Foundation (UK)
The Daiwa Foundation is a grant giving charity which aims to promote links between the UK and Japan. The Foundation awards grants to individuals and institutions in the UK and Japan in all areas of the visual and performing arts, the humanities, the social sciences, science and engineering, mathematics, business studies, and education. A range of organisations can apply including schools and universities, and grass roots and professional groups.

There are a number of grants programmes available. The most relevant to researchers in the Open University are:

• Daiwa Foundation Awards - Awards of £5,000-£15,000 are available for collaborative projects that enable British and Japanese partners to work together, preferably in the context of an institutional relationship
• The Royal Society Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Joint Project Grants -These grants support travel, subsistence and research for collaborative projects between British and Japanese researchers in the field of science. The grants available can cover all fields of activity, including educational and grassroots exchanges, research travel, the organisation of conferences, exhibitions, collaborative projects between British and Japanese researchers in the field of science and other projects and events that fulfil the objectives of the Foundation.

Next closing date: 31st March 2009

For more information and application form see website: http://www.dajf.org.uk/