Funding Instruments

A) funding instruments for exchange and cooperation with Japan

Austria

• Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)
  APART-Fellowship, DOC-Fellowship, OeAW Scholorship Information (in German)
• Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship, FWF Joint Research Projects
• OeAD, Centre for International Cooperation and Mobility
  several funding programs for students, pre/post-docs and scientists

Europe

• EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
  6 month in-house fellowship at the EU-Japan Centre in Japan.
  Minerva Fellowship Programme
• European Commission
  Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
• European Science Foundation
  ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference Series for Young Researchers

France

• École Française d’Extrême-Orient
  EFEO Field Scholarships
• French Foreign Affairs (MAEDI)
  France-Japan cooperation programme for S&T
  PHC-Sakura Programme (in French)

Germany

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  several scholarships for students, pre-/post-docs and scientists
  exchange and research projects
• German Research Foundation (DFG)
  Initiation and intensification of bilateral collaborations
  www.dfg.de/en/dfg_profile/head_office/dfg_abroad/japan/index.html
• Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB)
  several exchange programs for high-school students, young professionals, welfare specialists etc.
  www.jdzb.de/en/exchange-programs/overview/

Italy

• Italien Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  program for S&T collaboration

Japan

• German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ)
  DIJ Visiting Scholar Program
• Japan Science and Technology Agency
  Strategic International Collaborative Research Program
• Japan Science and Technology Agency
  Strategic International Research Cooperative Program
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
  several funding programs for post-docs (few exceptions for pre-docs) to senior scientists, exchange and joint research projects
• Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO)
  Student Exchange Support Program (Scholarship for Short-term Study in Japan)
  Follow-up Research Fellowship
• Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship Student
  comprehensive site for scholarship programs for students funded by MEXT
  www.studyinjapan.go.jp
• Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme
• The Japan Foundation
  several funding programs in the fields of arts, culture, Japanese language, Japanese studies
  www.jpf.go.jp/e/program/index.html

Sweden

• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  Scholarships, grants, scientific exchange and research fellow positions
• Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation
  Grants
• Swedish Research Council
  several funding programs
• Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte)
  COFAS International Postdoc Programme (Preparation for new programme is now in progress)
• Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT)
  several funding programs for post-docs and scientists, exchange and joint research projects
• The Swedish Research Council Formas
  grants, workshops & conferences, etc.

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