Some supports are available to graduate students learning in the HIGO program as listed below. For further details, please contact the program office.
1. Scholarships
The HIGO program provides scholarships to qualified students for supporting their researches and trainings. The monthly stipends are ¥200,000 for a student of master's course and ¥200,000 for a student of doctoral course, in FY2014. The HIGO scholarship is subject to qualifications for receiving. Students receiving the HIGO scholarship must participate in the HIGO education and research program and not allowed to be supported by any other funding.
2. Travel Costs for Internships
Travel costs for internships are covered by the HIGO program for qualified graduates in the program.
3. Research Grants
For supporting excellent researches, outstanding research proposals of graduates in the course are eligible for research grants from the HIGO program.
detailed information → Research Funding Project(HIGO).pdf
Application Form → 2014ResearcgFundingApplication Form.doc
4. Presenting and Publishing Research Results
The HIGO program covers costs for attending to academic meetings, publishing papers and applying patents after qualification processes.
＊NOTICE: Only the HIGO Course Students (excluding associate students) can apply for a support for the overseas academic conferences.
detailed information → 2014Support for Academic Research Presentation_en.pdf
Application Form → 2014Support_Application Form.doc
5. Travel Awards
Deepening profundity of disciplinary research, promoting outstanding research which fits the goal of HIGO Program, and fostering research mindset as well as applicability, are one of the crucial objectives of HIGO Program.
HIGO Program supports the students by partially covering the cost of participating programs and projects which would lead to research ability upgrade.
More details → Travel Awards
6. Support for Foreign Students
Teaching staffs from foreign countries in Kumamoto University provide advice for the life in Kumamoto to graduates from abroad in the program.
7. Career Service
In cooperation with Human Resource Center for Innovation and Career Support Section, Kumamoto University, the HIGO program provides career advice to the graduates in the program.
