Past Awards
Winners of grants since 2006 below with field of study indicated (where available):
2015 Honami Iida – Studying the Norwegian education system for deaf students
2014 Momoko Tamura - Master’s Program on Theory and Practice of Human Rights
2013 Ayumi Tanaka – Studies in performance jazz piano at the Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH)
2012 Yusuku Kaneta – Studies in nano-thermodynamics, which aims to describe thermodynamic properties in molecular-size space (nano scale).
2011 Magnus Dahl – Studies in Japanese culture, environmental resources policy and sustainable development & Natsuka Terada Norwegian and sociology to find out the causes and the consequences of children abuse.
2010 Silje Framnes – Studies in graphic design & Chihiro Ito – Studies on Norwegian folk music and composer Agathe Backer Grøndahl
2009 Anne Fosby – PhD studies on stem-cells and hippocampal/neural development & Yutaka Seta – Studies in social engineering majoring in city planning and community design
2008 Torbjoern Engebretsen – Studies in material science with thesis on dissolution of oxygen by electrolysis (Lake Biwako program)
2007 Chiyuki Narama – Studies in humanity and nature with works on glacier meltdown in central Asia
2006 Tor Erik Nyberg – Thesis in liberal arts on Japanese vs foreign students’ adaptation to universities