Sustainability Networks Research
Networks as Drivers of Sustainable Development
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Created: Mar 05, 2008
Updated: Nov 18, 2009
Membership: Open
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The Nippon Foundation Fellowships for Asian Public Intellectuals
(a.k.a.: API Fellowships Program)
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As Asia moves into the 21st century, it faces political, economic, and social challenges that transcend national boundaries. To meet these challenges, the region needs a new pool of intellectuals who are willing to be active in the public sphere and can articulate common concerns and propose creative solutions. Recognizing that opportunities for intellectual exchanges are currently limited by institutional, linguistic and cultural parameters, The Nippon Foundation, in cooperation with major academic institutions in Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand, has launchced the Asian Public Intellectuals Fellowships Program (API Fellowships Program).
•To help create a new pool of public intellectuals in the Asian region;
•To promote mutual learning among Asian public intellectuals; and
•To contribute to the growth of public spaces in which effective responses to
regional needs can be generated.
The API Fellowship Program is open to academics, researchers, media
professionals, artists, creative writers, NGO activists, social workers, public
servants and others with moral authority--who are committed to work for the
betterment of society by applying their professional knowledge, wisdom, and
experience. The API Fellowship Program will give these public leaders the
opportunity to learn what their counterparts are doing in different cultural and
ethnic contexts, generate theoretical ideas to cope with social and economic
changes, and build the intellectual networks of the future.
Accepted fellows are provided transportation, housing, stipend, insurance, and
research allowance (for computers, books, and other materials).