JSPS International Fellowships for Research in Japan: Invitational Fellowship (Long-term) [L]

7 July 2021

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) carries out programs that provide excellent researchers from other countries an opportunity to conduct collaborative research, discussions, and opinion exchanges with researchers in Japan. These programs are intended to help advance the overseas researchers’ research activities while advancing science and promoting internationalization in Japan. The purpose is to invite overseas researchers with excellent records of research achievements to collaborate with Japanese colleagues in carrying out research through long-term visits.

Deadline: 3 September 2021 (by 5:00 PM (JST))

Terms of Award:        

  • A roundtrip air ticket (economy-class) (based on JSPS’s regulations) 
  • Maintenance Allowance: ¥387,600 per month
  • Overseas travel insurance
  • Research support allowance: Up to ¥150,000


Theme:           
All fields of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences are included under these programs.      


Duration: 2 to 10 months


Candidate Eligibility:

  • Be a citizen or permanent resident of a country that has diplomatic relations with Japan. Persons of Japanese nationality are eligible to apply if they have resided at the time of application in a foreign country for 10 years or longer and are judged to have played an active role at a host research institution in that country’s scientific community.
  • Be a full-time researcher or person with full-time researcher status at a university or research institution in a foreign country and have a position equivalent to a professor, associate professor or assistant professor in Japan (including positions such as professor emeritus). Researchers of other status may apply if it has been six years or longer since they obtained their doctoral degree and the host research institution judges them to have continuously conducted research at a university or research institution.


For more information: https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-inv/application/2022application.html


Contact:         
Email GRIP.OIA@chula.ac.th

Tel. +66 22183124