Sumitomo Foundation seeks grant applications

KUCHING: Sumitomo Foundation is seeking grant applications for projects under ‘Protection, Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Properties outside Japan’.

The Foundation offers the grant programme so that cultural properties outside Japan, which are common heritage of humankind, may be handed down to future generations.

The number of projects to be selected is 15.

The duration of the grant is for one year - from March 2021 to March 2022.

Eligible projects are those for the protection, preservation and restoration of cultural properties, such as fine arts or historical monuments, outside Japan. The cultural properties must be tangible, old and artistically or academically valuable, and ought to be handed down to future generations.

Applicants shall be the owners or administrators of the cultural properties or researchers who will actually conduct preliminary surveys. Those not eligible in principle are profit-making corporations; individuals who own cultural properties for profit; or whose cultural properties are for private use only.

The application and letter of recommendation shall be written in English or Japanese. The amount applied for shall be in Japanese Yen or in US Dollars.

Applications must reach the Foundation on or before Nov 30.

Applications for this grant will be reviewed for selection by a Selection Committee of Sumitomo Foundation. The Board of Directors of Sumitomo Foundation, scheduled to meet in March 2021, will give the final approval in the selection of the projects eligible for this grant.

Results of the selection will be known to the applicants by airmail.

For the complete details on the grant, visit http://www. sumitomo.or.jp/e/kaigai/outside. htm.