{"id":5805,"date":"2019-10-30T15:11:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2019-10-30T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T22:11:20","slug":"nov-8-info-session-jsps-fellowships-for-research-in-japan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-5805","title":{"rendered":"Nov 8 Info Session: JSPS Fellowships for Research in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>Japan Society for the Promotion of Science<\/strong>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsps.go.jp\/english\/e-fellow\/index.html\">JSPS<\/a>) is the largest research-funding agency in Japan. It operates under the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mext.go.jp\/en\/\">MEXT<\/a>). Funding opportunities are available to most fields (social-science, humanities, STEM, multi-disciplinary) for research at all Japanese Universities and public research institutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Doctoral students who are near program completion (summer and short-term fellowships)<\/li>\n<li>Postdoctoal fellows\u00a0(summer, short and long term fellowships)<\/li>\n<li>Faculty members at junior, mid-career and senior levels (short and long term fellowships)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more about funding opportunities directly from JSPS staff and alumni, please attend:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information Session with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday, November 8, 2019, 10:00AM\u00a0&#8211; 11:30AM<\/li>\n<li>Thea Koerner House,\u00a06371 Crescent Road V6T 1Z2.\u00a0 Map:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.ubc.ca\/PROD\/index_detail.php?locat1=409\">http:\/\/maps.ubc.ca\/PROD\/index_detail.php?locat1=409<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Please register for this session at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postdocs.ubc.ca\/event\/1224-international-fellowships-research-japan-information-session-japan-society-promotion\">https:\/\/www.postdocs.ubc.ca\/event\/1224-international-fellowships-research-japan-information-session-japan-society-promotion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The JSPS also work directly with Mitacs and NSERC to allocate some of their funding for research:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitacs-JSPS Summer Program<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitacs.ca\/en\/programs\/globalink\/mitacs-jsps-summer-program\">https:\/\/www.mitacs.ca\/en\/programs\/globalink\/mitacs-jsps-summer-program<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Applicant deadline: November 27, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>NSERC: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowships<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/Students-Etudiants\/PD-NP\/JSPS-SJPS_eng.asp\">http:\/\/www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca\/Students-Etudiants\/PD-NP\/JSPS-SJPS_eng.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Applicant deadline: February 1, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Japan Society for the Promotion of Science\u00a0(JSPS) is the largest research-funding agency in Japan. It operates under the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Funding opportunities are available to most fields (social-science, humanities, STEM, multi-disciplinary) for research at all Japanese Universities and public research institutions: Doctoral students who are near program&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5806,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5805\/revisions\/5806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}