Overseas Research Grant 2025

Nippon Sheet Glass Foundation for Materials Science and Engineering

Our History

Nippon Sheet Glass Foundation for Materials Science and Engineering (NSG Foundation) was established in 1979 forcelebrating the 60th anniversary of Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd. Main activity of NSG Foundation is to offer the research grantto the research on inorganic materials which is carried out in universities. Funds for the research grant is supplied by theinterest of NSG Foundation’s assets and annual donation given by Nippon Sheet Glass and other companies. Since 1979 NSG
Foundation has granted the total sum of 1,877 million yen to 1,485 research projects in Japan. NSG Foundation started theoverseas research grant to researchers in Malaysia in 1992 and to Vietnam in 2006. The total amount of the overseas research
grant exceeded 1,115 thousand US dollars to 187 research projects. NSG Foundation will provide the overseas research grants
for universities continuously in 2025.

1. Scope
As a general principle, any research project on Science and Technology of Inorganic Materials is covered. Fundamental andapplied researches on amorphous and crystalline solid materials including inorganic-organic hybrid technologies are typicalsubjects for the research grant.

2. Amount of Grants
An amount of US$2,000～6,000 is provided for one research project with the term of 12 to 24 months (from January, 2025
through December, 2025 -- December, 2026).

3. Applications
Each applicant is requested to describe the proposal in English using “Application for Research Grant” form of 4 pages, andsend its hardcopy to NSG Foundation until September 30, 2024 that is the DATE OF RECEIVABLE. It is also requested toappend a recommendation letter signed by Chancellor ( or Deputy Chancellor in charge of academy affairs ), a copy of curriculum vitae of the applicant, 5 pages in maximum. The maximum number of reprints of representative research papers thatcan be attached is five, but full pages are allowed only for two papers. Only first page can be attached for another three papers.
Please pay attention that pages exceed the page limitation will NOT be sent to Evaluation Committee. CVs of co-researchers
are NOT required. It is also requested to send "Applicant_Info.xls" by e-mail, which can be downloaded from our homepage.
After receiving both hardcopies of the Application Form, the recommendation letter, the CV, and the reprints of the papers
and "Applicant_Info.xls" sent by e-mail, application number will be sent to applicant within three working days as
confirmation of the acceptance.

4. Selection and Presentation
Evaluation Committee Meeting of NSG Foundation is to be held in December, 2024 in Tokyo to select the research grant
items. Based on the selection by Evaluation Committee, NSG Foundation will decide the research grant items to be granted
after the meeting. The research grant fund will be presented until January, 2025, so that the granted research will be able tostart early in 2025.
Note that the researchers who received this research grant after 2022 are ineligible to apply for the overseas research
grant this year.

5. Requirements and Notice① It should be agreed that the grant is made only for the research written in the proposed document. The granted fund should
not be used for other purposes.
② A report written in English must be submitted to NSG Foundation within six months after the end of research term.
③ The report has to contain a technical report on the research results (within 10 pages of A4 size paper) and a financial
statement on the expenses incurred.
④ The report will be published in NSG-F home page.

6. Evaluation Committee Members
ChairmanTakashi Goto (Professor Emeritus, Tohoku University, Professor, Nagaoka University of Technology)
Members
Hideo Hosono (Honorary Professor, Director of Materials Research Center for Element Strategy,
Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Shizuo Fujita (Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University)
Tetsuya Mizumoto (Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Hiroyuki Inoue (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
Tetsuji Yano (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Tsukasa Torimoto (Professor, Nagoya University)
Katsuhisa Tanaka (Professor, Kyoto University)

7. Secretariat

For further information, please contact;
Kenjiro Hamanaka, Secretariat General, Nippon Sheet Glass Foundatione-mail: kenjiro.hamanaka@nsg-zaidan.or.jp

Phone: +81-3-6757-1203

3-5-27 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-6321 Japan