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Applications for the 2025 ArCS-3 overseas Fellowship program

  • 2025.4.18

In accordance with the objectives of the Arctic Challenge for Sustainability-3 (ArCS-3) project.
We implement programs for the support of early career professionals. The Arcs-3 project provides funding to graduate students, early career researchers belonging to Japanese universities and other research institutions, as well as young practitioners from public and private institutions, to support their participation in international conferences for making presentations and collecting information, as well as their stay at overseas universities and research institutions for conducting research and expanding contacts along with fieldwork trips. We expect that these programs will stimulate further research and other activities by early career professionals and will help them expand their personal network at the international levels.

You can visit the web page containing the interviews of the participants of the previous project (ArCS II)
We hope the stories of their experience will be instructive.
Voices of the participants of the Overseas Fellowship program　*Japanese only
https://www.nipr.ac.jp/arcs2/outreach/fellowship-interview2020/

Application Period

Application period: 21 April 2025 – 16 May 2025, noon (12:00) JST
Travel period: July 2025 – early February 2026

2025 Application guide and forms

Research Fields, project types, travel period

  1. Research Field：All fields related to the Arctic
  2. Project types
    • Visiting overseas academic, public, or private organizations etc. related to the Arctic for discussions, information exchange
    • Participation in international conferences, taking courses for collection information, building contact networks, acquiring new knowledge and skills etc.

    ※Applicants for funding to participate in an international conference are required to give a presentation at the conference in question.

Number of fellowships to be awarded

About 7 people expected

Selection criteria and notification of the results

The ArCS-3 Hokkaido University Secretariat and “the panel of judges” assesses the applications and makes the selection. The applicants will receive notification of the result approximately 1 month after the end of the application period by e-mail (sent to the e-mail address specified in the application form

Contacts

ArCS-3 Hokkaido University Secretariat (Overseas Fellowship Program)
Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Northern Campus research Bldg. No2
(Frontier Research Center for advanced Material and life Science) 2F
001-0021, Japan, Hokkaido, Sapporo, Kita-ku, kita 21Jo, Nishi 11Chome
E-Mail：arcs3_HU_EC(at)arc.hokudai.ac.jp

Outline of the program

period About 1 month
project type
  1. Participation in a conference/ course for collecting information and networking
    ※applying for funding to participate in an international conference are expected to give a presentation at the conference.
  2. Joint research and collaboration with partners from the host academic, public or private organization(s)
  3. Field studies, data analysis etc.
eligibility
  1. Graduate students ※1
  2. Researchers with master’s/PhD degrees obtained less than 10 years ago (From the date of 1 April 2025) ※2
  3. Practitioners who belongs to public and private organizations etc. (including self-employed individuals) who are under the age of 40 at the time of application.

※1 Undergraduate and research students may also apply if they expect to become graduate students by the start of the programme
※2 The 10-year term excludes maternity/parental leave taken after obtaining the degree
Required documents
  • Application form
  • Travel schedule and budget plan
  • Degree certificate or enrolment certificate
  • Certificate of employment( if applicable)
  • Residence card or other certificate of the residence status( for foreign nationals only)
  • Documents related to the project(such as the host’s letter of acceptance, observation plan, conference, course outline, presentation abstract(a draft is also acceptable)
Selection criteria
  • Relevance of the project, its scientific and social significance
  • Feasibility of the project and its consistency with the purpose of the program
  • Is the budgets consistent with the research objectives and plan?
  • Is the applicant’s project, if supported by this program, likely to further their care?
  • Does the applicant have sufficient planning, language and communication skill?
Obligation after program
  1. Submit a report
  2. Presentation of the results session, submit the presentation materials and take part in a panel discussion etc.