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Types of Grants Programs

Various grant programs are provided based on the objective and nature of the research.Grant administration under these categories is currently divided between MEXT and JSPS. In the future, all administrative functions will be transferred to JSPS.

Categories Objective Function
Select Award
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research      
  Specially Promoted Research Internationally appraised research expected to produce outstanding results
  • 3-5 years
  • 500 million yen or more per project
 JSPS MEXT
Scientific Research on Priority Areas Highly responsive on issues of urgent societal needs that require global collaboration
  • 3-6 years
  • 20-600 million yen yearly per area
 MEXT MEXT
Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
Joint research in new disciplines that contributes to elevating Japan's scientific standard and fostering young researchers
  • 5 years
  • 10-300 million yen yearly per area
 MEXT MEXT
(Research under a proposed research project)
Innovative topical research with potential for scientific breakthroughs,without a guarantee of good results
  • 3 years
  • 10 million yen yearly
Scientific Research (S) Leading-edge research by a researcher or a small group of researchers
  • As a rule, 5 years
  • 50-200 million yen per project
 JSPS JSPS
(A)
(B)
(C)		 Creative and pioneering research conducted by a researcher or a group of researchers
  • 3-5 years
  • [A] 20-50 million yen per project
  • [B] 5-20 million yen per project
  • [C] Up to 5 million yen per project
 JSPS JSPS
Challenging Exploratory Research Research at an early stage with highly challenging goals based on unique concepts
  • 1-3 years
  • Up to 5 million yen per project
 JSPS JSPS
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (S) Research carried out by individual researcher of up to age 42
  • 5 years
  • 30-100 million yen per project
 JSPS JSPS
(A)
(B)		 Research carried out by individual researcher of up to age 39
  • 2-4 years
  • [A] 5-30 million yen per project
  • [B] Up to 5 million yen per project
 JSPS MEXT
(Start-up) Start-up research mainly conducted by a newly tenured researcher
  • 2 years
  • Up to 1.5 million yen per year
 JSPS JSPS
Encouragement of Scientists Research carried out by an employee of an educational or research institution or a corporation or any other individual
  • 1 year
  • Up to 1 million yen
 JSPS JSPS
Grant-in-Aid for Special Purposes Urgent and critical research subjects , experimental trials concerning research aid MEXT MEXT
Grant-in-Aid for Publication of Scientific Research Results  
  Publication of Research Results Publishing scientific research results MEXT MEXT
Scientific Periodicals Publication of International academic journals JSPS JSPS
Scientific Literature Books on research results JSPS JSPS
Databases Compiling and networking databases JSPS JSPS
Specially Designated Research Promotion Research on topics of societal significance conducted by designated private research institutes MEXT MEXT
Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows Research by JSPS pre- and postdoctoral fellows
(Japanese and overseas reseachers)
  • Up to 3 years
 JSPS JSPS
Creative Scientific Research To futher advance selected components of highly creative research conducted under Grants-in-Aid
  • 5 years
 JSPS JSPS
   
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