Cultural Grant Aid

 

Cultural Grant Aid was launched in FY 1975 to provide material support for the promotion of a wide variety of cultural and educational projects. In FY 2000 Japan expanded the scope of its cooperation by introducing Grant Aid for Cultural Grassroots Projects, a system for detailed cooperation on small-scale projects, along with Grant Aid for Cultural Heritage which enabled support for larger projects dealing with cultural heritage. In FY 2005 Cultural Grant Aid and Grant Aid for Cultural Heritage were merged to establish Cultural Grant Aid, which provides support not only for large projects dealing with cultural heritage but also for large-scale projects to promote culture and higher education.

Many developing nations are making solid efforts toward nation-building in ways that include not only socioeconomic development but cultural and educational development as well.

Cultural Grant Aid is a part of Official Development Assistance (ODA), provided to contribute to the promotion of cultural and higher educational activities and preservation of cultural heritage in developing countries. It is administered through two schemes: Cultural Grant Aid and Grant Aid for Cultural Grassroots Projects. To date, expressions of gratitude have been forthcoming from more than 120 countries throughout the world from persons concerned with, and from institutions actually involved in, cultural and higher education and the preservation of cultural heritage.

 

Type of Cultural Grant Aid

 

Cultural Grant Aid

  • Purpose: Promotion of culture and higher education, preservation of cultural heritage
  • Content: Construction/Rehabilitation of facilities, Provision of equipment
  • Subject: National government agencies
  • Grant limit: For equipment supply: 50 million yen (approx. US$450,000)
  • For Construction/Rehabilitation of facilities: 300 million yen (approx. US$2,700,000)

Grant Aid for Cultural Grassroots Projects

  • Purpose: Promotion of culture and higher education, preservation of cultural heritage
  • Content: Construction/Rehabilitation of facilities, Provision of equipment, subsidy for transportation costs (e.g. incurred in transport of pre-owned judo uniforms, etc.)
  • Subject: local public bodies, NGOs, etc.
  • Grant limit: In principle, 10 million yen (approx. US$90,000) per project
  • application form

(Conversion rate: US$1 = 111 yen)

 

 

For further information

Embassy of Japan in Lebanon, Culture and Information Section

Tel: 01-989751/2/3

 

 

(c) Embassy of Japan in Lebanon

Serail Hill Area, Army St. Zokak El-Blat, Beirut, Lebanon

 

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