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The Sumitomo Foundation is seeking applications for the Grant Project for the Protection, Preservation & Restoration of Cultural Properties outside Japan.

The program is offered so that cultural properties outside Japan, the common heritage of human, be handed down to future generations.

Funding Information

• Grant budget: 35 million yen in total, with approx. 15 projects to be selected.

• Duration of Grant: One (1) year, March 2023-March 2024

Eligible Projects for Application:

• Projects for the protection, preservation & restoration of cultural properties (i.e., fine arts or historical monuments) outside Japan, which are tangible, old and artistically or academically valuable, and ought to be handed down to future generations

• Preliminary surveys immediately linked up with the projects as mentioned above.

• Administrative expenses of universities, research institutes, or other organizations to which applicants and/or their collaborator(s) belong

• Expenses for procurement of any instrument, apparatus, or equipment for general use such as facsimile machines, copying machines, and the like

Note: The submission of parallel applications for grants from The Sumitomo Foundation and from governments and/or other private organizations is acceptable

Eligibility

• Qualification of Applicant:

  • Applicant shall be the owner(s) or administrator(s) of the cultural properties or researcher(s), who will actually conduct preliminary surveys.

• The following are not eligible:

  • Profit-making corporations,

  • Individuals who own cultural properties for profit or whose cultural properties are for private use only.

• Language for Application: English or Japanese

Post Date: 06-Oct-2022