Applications Invited for Projects for the protection preservation & restoration of cultural properties outside Japan

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About the Organization

The Sumitomo Foundation, a non-profit grant-making organization, was established on September 25, 1991, by 20 companies of the Sumitomo Group (serving as donors) to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Besshi Copper Mine in Shikoku, Japan.

About the Program

The program is offered so that cultural properties outside Japan, the common heritage of human, be handed down to future generations.

Eligible Projects for Application:

• Projects for the protection, preservation & restoration of cultural properties (i.e., fine arts or historical monuments) outside Japan, which are tangible, old and artistically or academically valuable, and ought to be handed down to future generations.
• Preliminary surveys immediately linked up with the projects as mentioned in (1) above.

Qualification of Applicant:

Applicant shall be the owner(s) or administrator(s) of the cultural properties or researcher(s), who will actually conduct preliminary surveys.

The following are not eligible:

• profit-making corporations,
• individuals who own cultural properties for profit or whose cultural properties are for private use only.

Language for Application:

English or Japanese

Application Deadline 30th November, 2021

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