About Academic Research Grants for 2025 (Reiwa 7) ※Application has been closed.
Since its inception as a core organization responsible for promoting science and technology in Hyogo Prefecture, the Hyogo Science and Technology Association (HyogoSTA) has been providing financial grants to researchers and engineers that either work or reside in the Prefecture and are engaged in wide-ranging scientific and technological endeavors.
For FY 2025, HyogoSTA is again offering funding to various research activities − ranging from creative and exploratory projects run by young up-and-coming researchers to fundamental and basic research as well as applied and practical research initiatives that will facilitate the industrial evolution − all with a view toward further advancing science and technology in the Prefecture.
HyogoSTA will be accepting research plans from a diverse range of projects, including ones that will be using SPring-8 and the SACLA X-ray Free Electron Laser Facility, the Fugaku Supercomputer, the FOCUS Supercomputer, and other state-of-the-art research facilities and resources that are available in the Prefecture. HyogoSTA will also actively solicit applications from researchers and engineers that are employees of universities, research institutions, business corporations, etc.
Overview
1.Eligibility
Researchers and engineers (for group research, the principal researcher) working or residing in Hyogo Prefecture and who have permission from their employer(s) to conduct the research in question.
*In principle, those who have received this grant for the same research topic within the past three years (after FY 2022) are not eligible.
2.Amount
up to 1 million yen/grant
3.Expected number of grants
approximately 33
Application Period
Monday, September 2 – Friday, October 11, 2024. (Applications must be received by October 11）
Application forms should be submitted to HyogoSTA office (Project Division) by post.
*Applications may not be submitted in person. Please be sure to mail in your application by the deadline, allowing for the time required by the postal service.
Application method and how to fill out the application form
Click here to download the Grant Application (Form 1) and the Guide.
*The form has been changed, so please only use this year’s form.
FY 2025 Application Form (Word)
(Reference) KAKENHI Review Section Table
【For Inquiries or to Submit Application Forms】
Hyogo Science and Technology Association – Project Division
5-10-1 shimoyamate St., Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, 650-8567
(on the 7th floor of Hyogo Prefectural Office Building No.１)
TEL : 078-362-3846
E-mail：jigyou[at]hyogosta.jp *Replace [at] with @.
FY 2024 (Reiwa 6) Results
【Ordinary Quota】
| Division |
No. Applications |
No. Adoptions |
No. Grants |
| Medical/Pharmaceutics/Nursing | 59 | 10 | 10 |
| Life Sciences/Agricultural Sciences | 24 | 8 | 7 |
| Physical Sciences | 18 |
7 |
7 |
| Engineering/Information/Interdisciplinary Studies | 28 | 8 | 9 |
| Total | 129 | 33 | 33 |
*1 declined, adoped moved up
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