The “SPIRIT2” program, succeeding the former “SPIRITS” initiative that concluded in FY2022, is an internal grant dedicated to advancing academic research at Kyoto University. This program encourages the creation of “small island-type research areas”—budding research expected to develop into new research areas with a global presence.

Starting in FY2025, SPIRIT2 will operate as an award program, funding researchers in all scientific disciplines, including the humanities and social sciences. The program welcomes proposals across the full spectrum of research, from foundational studies to applied research, without restrictions on the project’s scope, scale, or prior achievements related to the proposal.

The Principal Investigators selected through the internal review process will receive the Kyoto University SPIRIT2 Award, conferred by the Executive Vice-President for Research Promotion.
In FY2025, the following eight researchers were awarded.

Name	Affiliation	Research Title
IGARASHI Taichi	Graduate School of Biostudies	ストレス適応生物学から拓く発がんパラダイムシフト：ストレス適応はがん遺伝子を選択するか？
KANESHIGE Miki	Graduate School of Medicine	AI結合型人工神経回路の付与による新たなアンチエイジング法の創出
SUGASE Kenji	Graduate School of Agriculture	Rheo-NMRとソフトマター物理の融合による分子流動ダイナミクスの革新的解析
TAKAHASHI Shigenari	Graduate School of Engineering	生命の起源を紐解く：有機物創生における革新的パラダイムの構築
TAKAHARA Kazuhiko	Graduate School of Biostudies	病原体の宿主制御因子を用いた新たな免疫制御手法
FUKUMA Masafumi	Graduate School of Science	量子多体系の実時間ダイナミクスに対するモンテカルロ法の開発
MAKI Koichiro	Institute for Life and Medical Sciences	静水圧が駆動するゲノムワイドの力学
MATSUBA Misako	Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere	ナラティブと統計数理モデルの統融合による複雑系システムへのアプローチ－漁村コミュニティの連関構造を紐解く－

Call for Applications

• FY2026
• Briefing Session (page in Japansese)

Information on the past calls

• FY2024
• FY2023

For information on the past calls (the number of applicants and adoption, adoption rate, budget, etc.), please visit here

Information for Grant Recipients

Usage of Grant

Q&A

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 SPIRIT2 in the Acknowledgments section with the phrase “SPIRIT2 2023 of Kyoto University” (Japanese: 京都大学 SPIRIT2 2023).
Example acknowledgments are written below.

This work was supported by SPIRIT2 2023 of Kyoto University.
本研究は京都大学 SPIRIT2 2023 により助成を受けたものです。

SPIRIT2 logo images

Please feel free to use the SPIRIT2 logo for posters of symposiums held as part of the SPIRIT2 project.

Contact

SPIRIT2 team, Kyoto University Office of Research Acceleration
kura-spirit2＊mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp　(Please replace * with @ when entering the email address.)