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About
- Sylff Program
  
  Cultivating leaders of tomorrow in countries worldwide
  
  Mission & Philosophy
  
  The goals of the Sylff Program and the leadership qualities it seeks to nurture
- Message from the Chairman
  
  Promoting peaceful and socially inclusive development
  
  Sylff Association
  
  Platform to bring all Sylff stakeholders closer together
- History
  
  Major milestones since the program's inception in 1987
  
  Contact
  
  Ask questions, offer comments, or come visit us in Tokyo
Institutions
Fellows
Support Programs
- Overview
- Research
  
  Research Grant (SRG)
  
  Up to US$5,000 to support doctoral and post-doc fellows’ academic research activities in their field of expertise.
  
  Research Abroad
  (SRA)
  
  Up to US$5,000 to support research in a foreign country for a doctoral dissertation.
- Social Action
  
  Leadership
  Initiatives (SLI)
  
  Up to US$10,000 for social action projects and conferences/workshops initiated by fellows.
  
  Project Grant (SPG)
  
  Large-scale grants for projects with potential for substantial social impact.
- Networking
  
  Leaders Workshop
  
  Opportunities for intercultural group learning and leadership enhancement.
News & Voices
Administrators
Operation Manual
- Overview
- Conventional Scheme
  
  Guidelines on program and endowment management
- New Scheme
  
  For institutions wishing to focus on program operations
- Administrators Meetings
  
  Learn best practices and meet other Sylff administrators

Sylff News

Oct 18, 2018

SRA Awardees for Fiscal 2018, First Round

https://www.sylff.org/support_programs/sra/

The Sylff Association secretariat is pleased to announce the 12 recipients of SRA awards in the first selection round for fiscal 2018. We received a large number of outstanding applications from fellows all over the world, which made the selection process very competitive.

We reviewed all applications carefully from the perspectives of eligibility, the feasibility of the proposals, and the relevance of the proposed research to the applicants’ academic pursuits. Some of the 12 applicants were making their second try and successfully won the award this time around.

Congratulations to all the awardees! We send them our best wishes and hope that the findings of their research abroad will further enrich their dissertations. The 12 awardees are as follows:

* Listed in alphabetical order.

Name	Sylff Institution	SRA Host Institution (Country)
Frank Afari	Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies	Northwestern University (USA)
Anete Butkevica	University of Latvia	University of California, San Diego
Eunsung Cho	Columbia University	Fieldwork (Japan)
Inga Hajdarowicz	Jagiellonian University	Women Now for Development (Lebanon)
Corinna Land	Ruhr University Bochum	Centro de Estudios Rurales Interdisciplinarios (Paraguay)
Yan Liu	Chongqing University	University College London (UK)
Rumi Naito	Columbia University	Borneo Nature Foundation (Indonesia)
Nick Turman-Bryant	University of Oregon	Fieldwork (Kenya)
Pieter De Vlieger	University of Michigan	Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
Anna Bozena Wroblewska	Jagiellonian University	Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired (USA)
Marcin Wrobel	Jagiellonian University	Lund University (Sweden)
Irene Zamora	Waseda University	Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico)

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