The Hitachi Scholarship Foundation offers postgraduate scholarship awards to faculty members of the universities in Southeast Asian countries who intend to study at Japanese graduate schools as full-time students for Master`s or Doctoral Course in the field of science and technology under the following conditions.

Term of Scholarship
For Master`s Course
Two and half years including half a year for the study of Japanese language prior to commencement of the Master`s Course

For Doctoral Course
Three and half years including half a year for the study of Japanese language prior to commencement of the Doctoral Course

Contents of Scholarship

The Foundation will support the following costs and expenses.
Travel expenses
Economy class round-trip airfare between the nearest airport of the grantee’s university and the airport in Japan and the travel expenses between the airport in Japan and the place of grantee’s research affiliation. Only the return fare will be given to the grantee if he/she is already in Japan

Arrival and return allowance: 50,000 each
Only the return allowance will be given to the grantee if he/she is already in Japan.

Stipend: 180,000 a month

Housing allowance (at cost but maximum amount per month)
Place of Residence Single With Family
Greater Metropolitan Tokyo — 60,000-90,000
Others – 40,000-55,000

Tuition and other school expenses listed in the following
Admission and registration fee
Tuition
Facility fee, if any
Seminar and laboratory fee, if any
Tuition for Japanese language course: For six (6) months

Field study expenses: At cost but up to 50,000 per year.
Application should be submitted to the Foundation in advance together with the recommendation letter of the host scientist for review and approval.

Expenses to make presentation at international conferences: At cost. Application in advance as same as 2-6 above is required.

Expenses to attend the activities of the Foundation
Application and Selection
Eligibility and qualification of applicants Only the faculty members, who satisfy the following conditions, of the universities invited by the Foundation will be accepted as applicants.

For Master`s Course
Bachelor`s degree holder who wishes to obtain Master’s degree in the field of science and technology at a Japanese graduate school
Below 30 years of age
Firm position or profession in the university

For Doctoral Course
Master`s degree holder (or the faculty member who is expected to obtain Master`s degree before the start of proposed Doctoral Course) who wishes to obtain Ph.D. in the field of science and technology at a Japanese graduate school
Below 35 years of age
Firm position or profession in the university

Application procedure

Application shall be endorsed by the President’s office of the university to which the Foundation has offered the scholarship award and submitted to the following address through the said office by November 30, 2006 using the registered mail. Neither personal nor direct application to the Foundation is accepted.

The Hitachi Scholarship Foundation
21F Akihabara UDX Building
14-1, Soto-Kanda 4-chome
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8010
Japan

Application shall be submitted with all the documents as required below and the application missing any of them will be automatically rejected. The Foundation reserves the right to request any other additional documents.
Documents required for application One (1) original and one (1) copy of
Type written Application Form along with 3cm x 4cm size photograph * Please use the Application Form attached hereto and fill in all the data requested.

Certificate of graduation or certificate of expected graduation from the last school attended

Transcript of academic record of the last school attended * The applicant for Doctoral Course is requested to submit the transcript of academic record of the undergraduate school as well.

Letter of recommendation from the head and/or dean of the faculty to which the applicant belongs. This letter needs to be endorsed by the office of the President. Other additional recommendation letters, if any.

Letter of acceptance from the proposed Japanese host scientist

Physical examination certificate
* The Foundation reserves the right to distribute a copy of the above documents to any person for the purpose of evaluation and selection. A copy of the above documents will also be distributed to the proposed Japanese host scientists of the finally selected applicants.

Method of selection
Preliminary selection
The Selection Committee of the Foundation will conduct preliminary selection based on the application documents.

Interview
The preliminary- selected applicants will be interviewed by the representative( s) of the Selection Committee of the Foundation at their universities…detalii click [sursa]