Dear rekan2 alumni IPB

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tatang <tsopian@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:34:17 -0000
Subject: [alumni-ipb] Beasiswa AYF - Jepang
To: alumni-ipb@yahoogroups.com

Dear rekan2 alumni IPB

Menyampaikan informasi bahwa telah dibuka kembali kesempatan
beasiswa Asian Youth Fellowship, untuk mengikuti training bahasa
Jepang persiapan masuk program pasca-sarjana di Jepang. Deadline
pendaftaran 2 November 2007.  Lebih lengkapnya silahkan dibuka link
berikut: http://www.asiaseed.org/ayfj/ atau baca informasi dibawah.

======
Tatang Sopian / BDP-Agronomi 30

United Graduate School of Agricultural Science
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

======

The Japan Foundation offers scholarship to study the Japanese
language for Asian students, who wish to study at graduate schools
in Japan and have a strong wish to contribute to regional
cooperation after obtaining a Master or Ph. D Degree.

1. Features of the Asian Youth Fellowship Program

The scholarship grantees shall take a preparatory course in the
Japanese language and other subjects for approximately 7 months at
the Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai , situated
in Osaka, Japan. Grantees shall live in the provided dormitory
through the Program. The preparatory course is developed for people
who have never learned Japanese language before.

Grantees will thereafter be matriculated into Japanese universities
as Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) scholarship students
(Research Student or regular course students) from April 2009.

The objective of AYF program is to nurture human resources for the
regional cooperation and development of the area, as well as to
promote and enhance friendship and mutual understanding among Asian
countries.

2. Field of Study

 We welcome students wishing to studying in the fields of:
Humanities, Social Sciences, Engineering and Natural Sciences.

*Students pursuing study areas that would contribute to his/her
country or region will be given preference.
* Fields of study must be one of those available at Japanese
universities. Practical training given by factories or companies is
excluded.

3. Qualifications

(1) Nationality:
Applicants must be nationals of one of the following countries;
Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Philippines, Singapore, Thailand or Vietnam.
(2) Age:
Applicants must be under 35 years of age as of April 1, 2009 (i.e.
born on or after April 2, 1974)
(3) Academic Backgrounds:
Applicants must be university or college graduates, who have
completed the fundamental education of their countries, basically of
16 years (those who will graduate from a university or college by
the Registration Day of AYF may apply, but the grants may be
CANCELLED if the grantees fail to arrive in Kansai on the starting
day of the preparatory course).
(4) Study Area:
The study area must be in the same field as the applicant has
studied (or is now studying) or a related one.
(5) Others:
a. Good proficiency in English is required.
b. Military men and military civilian employees registered on the
personnel list are excluded.
c. Applicants should be in good health.
d. The grants may be canceled if grantees fail to arrive in Osaka,
Japan, by the Registration Day of AYF, 2008.
e. The applicant whose spouse has already won a Japanese Government
scholarship will not be selected as a grantee, and likewise in the
case of a couple applying at the same time.
f. The applicant who has been awarded a Japanese Government
(Monbukagakusho) scholarship in the past will not be selected as a
grantee unless he/she has had a few years' research or teaching
experience after returning to his/her country.
g. It is not recommended for his/her family to accompany the
applicant to Japan during the AYF program.

4. Terms of Scholarship

The scholarship will be granted for a period of about 7 months, in
principle, from the date of arrival in Osaka to February 2009. After
completing the AYF Program, the Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho)
scholarship will be granted according to its own regulation.

5. Grant Coverage during Preparatory Course

(1)Expenses necessary for participation in the official curriculum
(transportation, teaching material, etc.)
(2)Meals during the program (partly in the form of cash allowances)
and a set amount of allowances to cover miscellaneous living
expenses.
(3) Accommodation (a single room) at the Institute
(4) Overseas travel insurance for disease and injury for the
duration of the program
(5) Round-trip, economy-class airline between the nearest
International Airport from your residence and Kansai International
Airport (Osaka, Japan) on the most direct and economical route.
(6) Japanese visa as a trainee.

* The above terms of the grant will be effective for the period of
the preparatory course. After completing the AYF Program, grantees
will proceed to Japanese universities as Monbukagakusho Scholarship
students. Allowances, accommodations, and other status are subject
to Monbukagakusho fs regulations.

6. Selection

(1) Japanese diplomatic missions concerned will select preliminary
candidates from among applicants by means of a review of the
documents submitted, in cooperation with the foreign governments
concerned.
(2) Those who have been selected as the preliminary candidates will
be recommended to Asian Youth Fellowship Screening Committee, Tokyo,
Japan. The Committee will select grantees from among the preliminary
candidates by means of an interview made in their respective
countries by a mission member assigned and dispatched by the
Committee.
(3) Final announcement will be provided by the Embassy of Japan in
writing after Monbukagakusho fs approval to the decision by the AYF
Screening Committee. The grantees of the Japanese Government
(Monbukagakusho) scholarship for 2009 will be finally selected, on
condition that they have completed the AYF preparatory course
successfully, after university placement has been made.

AYF will provide the students with information on Japanese
universities through the Program.

7. Application Procedure

Applicants must submit the following documents according to the
instruction given by the Embassy of Japan in their own country by
the date appointed. The documents submitted will not be returned.

- Application for Admission (prescribed forms) 3  @
- Photographs (6:4 cm) taken within the past 6 months (should be
pasted on the applications) 3  @
- Certified academic record of university attended (to be issued by
the university authorities) 2 1
- Reference from the university president or dean, or academic
advisor 1 2
- Reference from the present employer (if applicable) 1 2
University diploma of certificate of degree 3

* ORIGINAL means a certified true copy for certificates, transcripts
and university diploma, not necessary the very original.
* COPY means a photocopy.
* Please note that you should contact the Embassy of Japan in your
country or visit our website http://www.asiaseed.org/ayfj/ before
submitting the application.

8. Notes

(1) More detailed information on this program is available at the
Embassy of Japan
(2) A grantee will be deprived of his/her scholarship in any of the
following cases;
a.  A false statement has been made on his/her application dossier.
b.  He/she violates any article of his/her pledge.
c.  He/she has been subject to disciplinary action by the Asian
Youth Fellowship or has no prospect for academic achievement (e.g.
failure to achieve a satisfactory level in the Japanese language).
(3) After finishing the preparatory course in Osaka, the grantee
will be studying in Japan as a Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho)
scholarship grantee. It is therefore recommended that the applicant
should read the guideline to the Japanese Government
(Monbukagakusho) scholarship.