The Sportology Research Grant from the Mizuno Sports Promotion Foundation supports Japan-based research that takes sport as its object of study, asking what sport is and contributing to its promotion and development.
Sportology integrates many specialist fields around physical activity, and the grant covers physical education, medicine, the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences, as well as the relationship between sport and health.
Applications are open to researchers belonging to academic organizations cooperating with the Science Council of Japan who are aged 40 or under on the application deadline. Each application requires the endorsement of the society’s top officer, and a society may endorse no more than two applications across both programs. Applicants may receive the grant a maximum of two times, and funds cannot be used for institutional overhead or indirect costs.
Awards are up to 1,000,000 JPY for a one-year project (April 1, 2027 to March 31, 2028) or up to 2,000,000 JPY for a two-year project (April 1, 2027 to March 31, 2029), with 10 to 20 projects selected across both programs.
Applications close on November 4, 2026.