The Toyota Foundation is inviting applications from countries and regions in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, including Japan to enable people working to solve common issues in Asia to acquire new perspectives through mutual exchange and learning, thereby broadening the possibilities for the future.

The grant program focuses on deepening mutual understanding and knowledge-sharing among people on the ground in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia who are finding solutions to shared issues. Through promoting direct interaction among key players, the grant program aims to survey and analyze situations in target countries, obtain new perspectives, and expand the potential of future generations.

With multinational teams comprised of participants from diverse backgrounds, projects can avoid conventional linear relationships, such as “supporter and supported” or “instructor and trainee,” and instead form cooperative and creative alliances that consider, act on, and construct solutions to shared issues. The grant program anticipates that these partnerships, which extend beyond such factors as nationality, age, and organizational affiliation, will produce significant social change through fostering a process of mutual learning.

Funding Organization: Toyota Foundation

Theme: Cultivating Empathy Through Learning from Our Neighbors: Practitioners’ Exchange on Common Issues in Asia

Eligibility: Diverse team based in multiple target countries. Team members could include those with practical experience and knowledge on addressing issues in the target countries, such as practitioners, researchers, creators, policy makers, and journalists and other media representatives.

Maximum Award: JPY 5,000,000 per year for a maximum of two years.

Application Process: Applications must be submitted online at https://toyotafound.appspot.com/#/en/D25-N-

Application Deadline: 31 May 2025

Further information: https://www.toyotafound.or.jp/english/grant/international/

For more information, please contact
Ms. Panida Suwannatheerak
Ms. Mananchaya Pissaparn
Tel: 0 2470 9654
Email: researchfollowup@kmutt.ac.th