Program Outline

Advancing academic research is essential to generating excellent knowledge assets. The need has increased over recent years to promote the creation of researcher networks and international collaboration carried out through them.
JSPS supports joint projects under this Bottom-Up International Joint Research Program that are carried out to produce innovative, knowledge-generative research results.

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Future plan

This program will start with support for joint research projects in the field of chemistry implemented in cooperation with the National Science Foundation in the US. JSPS is also planning to start multilateral research funding with Canada, France, Germany, Russia, UK and USA in the near future. Research fields, counterpart countries and institutions are scheduled to be expanded.