Invitation programs for foreign-based researchers to Japan 2025
Guidelines for application
A researcher who wishes to participate in this program should contact such a Japanese research institute and develop a joint research plan in coordination with the host institute. For further details, please refer to the terms and conditions of the program and application procedure, provided at NICT web site, or inquire of secretariat of the program at NICT.
Please note that this program is aimed to support researchers who wish to conduct R&D at research institute other than NICT. If a researcher is interested in becoming a guest researcher at NICT, he or she should contact Deployment Promotion and International Exchange Planning Office at ICT Deployment and Industory Promotion Depertment of NICT.
Contact Info
Deployment Promotion and International
Exchange Planning Office.
ICT Deployment and Industry Promotion
Department
National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology (NICT)
E-mail:
Outline of the program
Supports provided by the program
Qualification requirements for research institutes and invited researchers
Applicants should be a Japanese research institutes who wish to invite foreign-based researchers to conduct collaborative R&D in ICT. Research institutes here means is the research and development department of private companies and public interest corporation. However, NICT is excluded.
A foreign-based researcher invited by the program must have an excellent research achievement of ICT and an academic degree equivalent to a Japanese doctorate, or research ability equivalent to it.