Kyoto University Office of Research Acceleration

Fund your research

Internal Grant Program [MUSUBIME]

This program aims to support researchers in all academic fields, including humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and at all levels of academic research from basic to applied research, who seek to deepen their own research through interdisciplinary exchange.

The program offers:

  1. opportunities to participate in research workshops for mutual learning with researchers from other fields with whom participants usually have few chances to come into contact with, and
  2. flexible funding support
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We hope that fresh perspectives and insights gained from this program will contribute to the steady progress in your current and future research.

Call for Applications

Information on the Past Calls

Information for Grant Recipients

If you have any questions regarding the workshops or funding, please take a look at the FAQ.

Sample Formats of Reports
These is the sample format of a completion report you will submit after the end of the second academic year. (in prep)

Acknowledgement Example
When giving presentations at academic conferences or publishing academic articles on the project’s research, include a note in writing that the project is being funded by MUSUBIME in the acknowledgments section with the phrase “MUSUBIME 2025 of Kyoto University” (Japanese: 京都大学 むすびめ 2025).
Example acknowledgments are written below.

This work was supported by FY2025 MUSUBIME of Kyoto University.
本研究は京都大学むすびめ2025により助成を受けたものです。

MUSUBIME logo images

Please feel free to use the MUSUBIME logo for posters of symposiums held as part of the MUSUBIME project.

Inquiry

MUSUBIME Team, Kyoto University Office of Research Acceleration (KURA)

E-mail: kura-musubime*mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Please replace * with @ when entering the email address.)