The Toyota Foundation

This grant program supports projects tackling social issues arising from rapid development of advanced technologies such as AI and IoT. For details, please visit our Japanese site at https://www.toyotafound.or.jp/special/2020/advanced.html

*"Co-Creating New Society with Advanced Technologies" application forms are only available in Japanese.

Comments by the Selection Committee Chair on Co-Creating New Society with Advanced Technologies 2020
Previous comments are available in the Annual Report.

Grant Number	Project Title	Project Representative	Organization/Position	Grant Amount(yen)
D20-ST-0009	Practical Application of a Fraudulent Accounting Detection AI Model for Sound Capital Market Formation: Fusion research that adds the perspective of a practitioner to the three areas of accounting, law, and statistics	Koken Ozaki	Faculty of Business Science, University of Tsukuba/Associate Professor	6,000,000
D20-ST-0017	Community Development Using Advanced Technology in a Depopulated and Aging Area: Action research on supporting the elderly using social robots as part of a comprehensive community care system	Kimihiko Daimon	Longevity Long-term Care Division, Izu City Hall, Shizuoka Prefecture/Chief Examiner	9,200,000
D20-ST-0024	A Vision of “MELSIT”: Co-constructing models of multidisciplinary “ELSI Talents” (MELSIT) and collaborative designing for the next MELSIT development	Yusuke Shikano	Research Center on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues, Osaka University/Specially Appointed Fellow	5,000,000
D20-ST-0030	Study of the Global Situation of Drug-Resistant Bacteria and the Impact of Introducing an AI-Based Bacterial Diagnosis Assistance System into Clinical Laboratories	Tatsuya Yamada	GramEye Inc./Director,(Faculty of Medicine, Osaka University)/(Undergraduate)	6,800,000
D20-ST-0033	Research on Practical IoT Education Curriculum at Kosen	Osamu Saito	CO-Works Co.,Ltd./Engineer	5,200,000
D20-ST-0034	The Promotion of eSport Science: Toward the social implementation of next-generation sport created by the fusion of sport science and ICT	Takashi Matsui	Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences/Research and Development Center for Sport Innovation,University of Tsukuba/Assistant Professor	7,800,000

Call for Proposals	October 1st to early December,2020(tentative)
Total Amount of Grants	40 million yen
Grant Amount per Project	Up to 10 million yen
Length of Grant	One to three years, beginning April 1, 2021
Grant Selection	Formal decisions on the awarding of grants will be made at the Toyota Foundation Board of Directors Meeting scheduled to be held in March 2021, based on the deliberations of a selection committee composed of outside experts.

※The application closed on December 4, 2020. Thank you for your interest.
Japanese document only.
・2020年度の募集要項（PDF)(332KB)
・2020年度の企画書（PDF)(262KB)