# Eurasia Foundation

Eurasia Foundation (from Asia) (一般財団法人 ユーラシア財団, Ippan zaidanhōjin yūrashia zaidan) (EF), formerly known as One Asia Foundation (OAF), is a non-profit organization founded in December 2009. Its headquarters are in Tokyo.
The organization's stated aim is increased international cooperation, with the goal of creating an international community of over 40 countries in Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and Central Asia. It offers grants to universities and other institutions of higher educations that teach courses within areas such as regional integration.

## Conventions

Eurasia Foundation hosts annual conventions and invites special guests as keynote speakers annually since 2011.
Eurasia Foundation Conventions :
| Year | Location | Notable Participants / Keynote Speakers | Topics / Theme |
| 2011 | Hotel Lungwood, Tokyo, Japan | Kang Sang-Jung (professor, University of Tokyo) Eiichi Shindo (representative of International Academic Society for Asian Community) | "Toward the formation of Asian Community" |
| 2012 | Hyatt Regency, Incheon, South Korea | Hak-Su Kim (former Executive Secretary of UN ESCAP) | "Towards the Asian Community" |
| 2013 | The Museum of Asian-African Conference The Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel, Bandung, Indonesia | Jusuf Kalla (former Vice President of Indonesia) Sunaryo Kartadinata (Rector or UPI) | "Enhancing Asian Competitiveness" "Developing Education for Better Asia" |
| 2014 | Jeju Grand Hotel, Jeju, South Korea | Richard Dasher (professor, Stanford University) Yoji Sato (chairman, Eurasia Foundation) | Politics and Economics History, Education and Social Matters Culture, Media and Arts |
| 2015 | WH Ming Hotel, Shangai, China | Yoji Sato (chairman, Eurasia Foundation) Sha Zukang (former head of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) | Politics and Economics History, Education and Social Matters Culture, Media and Arts |
| 2016 | InterContinental, Phnom Penh, Cambodia | Yoji Sato (chairman, Eurasia Foundation) Anthony Jackson (vice president of Asia Society, USA) | Present and Future Prospects of Education |
| 2017 | Nagoya Kanko Hotel, Nagoya, Japan | Yoichi Komori (professor of the University of Tokyo) | "Various issues surrounding Peace" |
| 2018 | Lotte Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam | Al Gore (former Vice President of USA) | "The Climate Crisis and its Solutions" "Hope for the Future" |
| 2019 | Lotte Hotel, Seoul, South Korea | Ki-moon Ban (former Secretary-General of the United Nations) | "Education and Peace" |

## Other collaborations

The foundation collaborates with the Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation research group at the Complutense University of Madrid.
In 2016, the foundation awarded Dr Kevin Cawley of University College Cork $50,000 to open a course on Asian studies.
In February 2019, the foundation visited Amity University Haryana, where a 3 credit certificate course on One-Asian Community Theory was opened over a 14 week period for 45 students.
February 2020, The Center for Korean Studies at the University of Washington announced they were going to host a lecture series with the foundation's chairman giving a lecture titled, "The World Will Be United in the Near Future" starting on 16 April 2020. However, due to the pandemic, the lecture was cancelled.

## Foundation Name Change

In April 2020, the foundation officially changed their name to Eurasia Foundation (from Asia) after the expansion of activities in Europe and the Middle East with the vision to develop their activities globally.