Toyota Foundation International Grant Program 2026 for Asia (80 million yen in grants) – YOA

Deadline: May 30, 2026

Applications are actually open for the Toyota Foundation International Grant Program 2026. The grant program focuses on deepening mutual understanding and data-sharing amongst folks on the bottom in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia who’re discovering options to shared points. Through selling direct interplay amongst key gamers, the grant program goals to survey and analyze conditions in goal nations, get hold of new views, and develop the potential of future generations.

With multinational groups comprised of individuals from numerous backgrounds, tasks can keep away from typical linear relationships, equivalent to “supporter and supported” or “instructor and trainee,” and as an alternative type cooperative and artistic alliances that think about, act on, and assemble options to shared points. The grant program anticipates that these partnerships, which prolong past such components as nationality, age, and organizational affiliation, will produce vital social change by way of fostering a strategy of mutual studying.

Eligibility

• Open to candidates from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia
• Diverse staff based mostly in a number of goal nations:
  • East Asia: Japan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, South Korea, Mongolia
  • Southeast Asia: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam
  • South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• Team members might embody these with sensible expertise and data on addressing points in the goal nations, equivalent to practitioners, researchers, creators, coverage makers, and journalists and different media representatives.

Projects are required to;

1. determine points and conduct a evaluate by surveying and analyzing the state of affairs in goal nations;
2. perform actions aimed toward offering options to points;
3. produce and disseminate tangible output

Application

Formal selections on the awarding of grants can be made by the Toyota Foundation Board of Directors at a gathering to be held in late September 2026, based mostly on the deliberations of accountable Selection Committee consisting of exterior specialists.

Click here to apply.

For extra data, go to Toyota Foundation.