Mazak Foundation
Application for Research Assistant Grants,
International Conference Assistant Grants
Fiscal Year 2024
1. Purpose of Establishment
The purpose of the Mazak foundation is to contribute to the advancement of theworld machinery industry by providing grants to individuals, universities, andresearch institutions in Japan and other countries. Grants will be provided for thefollowing areas of research related to advanced production systems:
information-network technologies, production engineering to create and operate
production systems, peripheral equipment such as material handling equipment orrobots and technologies related to their control, material technologies such as
tooling or work materials, processing technologies by machine tools, and machineelement technologies and control technologies of machine tools.
2. Objectives
Some representative examples of fields of research:・ Control technologies or machine element technologies for high precision orhigh speed machine operation.
・ Material technologies such as tooling or work materials to contribute toprocessing technologies to improve machine tool performance.
・ Control technologies or machine element technologies which contribute toimprove flexibility, efficiency, or acceleration of equipment, required for theestablishment of production systems incorporating material handlingequipment or robots.
・ Information-network technologies or operation technologies for the creation oroperation of production systems
Based on the fields as described above, the following categories are subjects ofgrants:
・ Research and development
・ Research of technical applications
・ Study of technical trends
・ Holding an International Conference for technology exchange・ Other activities to achieve the foundation objectives
3.

Qualification requirements
Institutional / Individual scholars, except for student and graduate student,
Institutions including attached research organization, Technical colleges, and Otherscholars and organizations admitted by MAZAK foundation
14. Contents of grantResearch Assistance Grants: ¥500,000～¥2,000,000(each)
International Conference Assistance Grants: ¥300,000～¥500,000(each)5.

Application Procedure(1) Fill in the appropriate information in the Mazak Foundation application form.
(2) Submit the application with a letter of recommendation from the head of yourdepartment or institution.
(3) The address of Mazak Foundation office for applications and inquiries isshown below.
(4) The application form will be accepted starting from September, but must reachthe Mazak Foundation no later than 30th November.

6. Documents to be submitted《Research Assistance Grants》
・ Mazak Foundation grant application form (A-4 size)
・ Research outline:
Briefly describe your research, and outline its unique features, feasibility (orviability), technological value (or industrial value) in a page of approximately
500 words.
・ Research plan:
Summarize the plan in 2 pages specifically describing how research will beconducted and how the grant is to be spent.
・ CV of applicant
Applicant must be the main researcher of the project.
・ Please provide a list of previously public research topics, papers, and theses
as reference material
Submit one copy of each document listed above in A4 size pdf file by e-mail《International Conference Assistance Grants》
・ Mazak Foundation grant application form (A-4 size)
・ Conference plan
Note: Conference shall be held in next fiscal year.
・ CV of applicant
Submit one copy of each document listed above in A4 size
7.

Selection and Notification of Acceptance
After the examination of the Mazak Foundation judging committee, the Chairman of2

the Board of Directors will announce the results in March 2025.
7. Presenting the grant and the dissertation award
These will be provided on the day following the “Announcement of Mazak Advanced
Production Systems Research Grantees and Mazak Advanced Production Systems
Distinguished Research Dissertation Award Ceremony”. (It is normally held in May
every year.)

8. Reporting and Publication of Results
Grantees shall submit the progress or results of their research to the Chairman ofthe Board Directors of the Mazak Foundation by the end of March next year in areport.
Upon publishing the research results, grantees shall denote “by Grants of the Mazak
Foundation”.
9. Mazak Foundation Address
1-131 Takeda Oguchi-cho Niwa-gun, Aichi-pref., Japan 480-0197
Tel: +81 587-95-6874
E-mail: mazak@lilac.ocn.ne.jp3