JICUF Grants for Students

Purpose: To provide direct support for activities and research planned and executed by ICU students.

Award Categories: Two categories available

• Program grants
• Research grants

Winter 2017 Cycle

• ICU Students' Skill-Building Workshop: Presentation & Business Communication Skills (Jennifer Fajardo): ¥140,000
• ICU UNESCO Club Study Tour (Tsuzumi Ino): ¥500,000
• Fiestas sa Pinas (Eleazar Puguon): ¥75,000
• TechRise – Empowering Youth through Code (Robyn Shinozaki): ¥800,000

Spring 2017 Cycle

• Development and Validation of a TPACK-integrated Instructional Design Model (Jiwak Bajracharya): ¥208,000
• Participation Problems and Possibilities with Handicapped in Higher Education: A Case Study in Nepal (Bhuwan Shankar Bhatt): ¥300,000
• Human Security for All: Persecuted Indigenous Christians in Mexico (Silvia Luz Gonzalez Marquez): ¥309,000
• Peace Activities Before, During and After World War II by Missionary E.B. Rhoads of Quaker (Natsuko Godo): ¥380,000
• Organizing the First JICUF Undergraduate Research Day (JICUF-URD) in February 2018 (Prof. Lee): ¥520,000
• Bhutan Study Tour (Ryo Usukubo): ¥350,000
• The Structure of Japanese Mental Lexicon: A Study of Chinese Learners of Japanese (Jing Xiao): ¥160,000
• Japanese Novelist Akutagawa Ryunosuke and his Impact on 1920s China (Yinping Xie): ¥132,000

Selection Process

• Grant proposals reviewed by JICUF Grants Committee
• Multiple application cycles throughout the year

Background

Launched in 2016 to directly support ICU community activities. Program was revamped in 2017 to more effectively support ICU's strategic initiatives.