The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) announced the new projects provisionally selected for the Fiscal Year 2026 Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) program.

SATREPS is a science and technology diplomacy initiative that promotes international joint research using advanced science and technology from Japan in combination with Official Development Assistance (ODA). The program is a collaboration between JST, the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Based on the needs of developing countries, JST and JICA cooperate to promote international joint research targeting global issues with an objective of utilization of research outcomes.

For FY2026, JST called for SATREPS project proposals from researchers in Japan in its three research fields—Environment and Energy, Bioresources, and Disaster Prevention and Mitigation—and began to accept proposals on August 19th, 2025. A total of 90 proposals were submitted by the close of applications on October 20th, 2025. The screening committee, composed of external experts, then reviewed the proposal documents and conducted interviews, including review from an ODA perspective, and provisionally selected 10 new projects, comprising five projects collaborating with Asian researchers, four projects with African researchers, and one project with Latin American researchers. The total number of countries selected for SATREPS projects is 60 (63 including projects under administration of AMED).