The
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Environment Fund (“the Fund”) is a grant program
which aims to realise sustainable development by supporting various activities
and research projects that contribute to solving global environmental problems.
The grant programs consist of:-
- Activity Grants which support activities by NPOs and
other organisations to contribute to the environment; and
- Research Grants which support environmental research
by universities, research institutions, and other organisations.
Please refer to more information here.
Since its launch in 2005, the Fund has
provided a total amount of 5,169 million yen (about AU$52 million) to a total
of 492 environmental activity/research projects.
Unfortunately, no grant has been
provided to a project undertaken by Australian organisation so far. Therefore,
we at Mitsui & Co. Australia are very keen to partner with an Australian
university to identify/develop a suitable research project for which we could
put forward an grant application.
Attached is the 2014 applicationguidelines for research grants for your information.
Mitsui
& Co. have obtained
further information outlined
below which
is more applicable to applications from Australia. It is pretty competitive so
we have tried to identify what specifically the selection panel are looking
for.
- The Fund has not provided many grants to
organisations from the Asia Pacific region so they are keen to receive
more applications from us in the area.
- They are looking for applications from top-level
universities and research organisations in Australia.
- From a developed country like Australia, they look
for applications which collaborate with other partner(s) in a developing
country in the region (i.e., Asia Pacific) to solve their environmental
issues as well as to help them develop environmental human resources and
systems through the collaboration.
- In many Asian countries, they still lack
environmental researchers who are skilled and experienced. Due to this
situation, there have been a large number of researches taking place in
those countries that are undertaken by organisations from developed
countries including Japan. They are looking for similar collaborative
researches to fund.
The FY2015 Research Grants
will open for applications in around October 2015 and close around mid-November
2015.
For
further information, please contact Kaoru Curmi, CSR
Coordinator, Corporate Planning Division,
Mitsui & Co. (Australia) Ltd - Tel:(03)
9605 8824 /
Mob:0417 149 925
.
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