Eurasia Foundation


Eurasia Foundation , formerly known as One Asia Foundation, is a non-profit organization founded in December 2009. Its headquarters are in Tokyo.
The organization's stated aim is increased international cooperation, with the goal of creating an international community of over 40 countries in Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and Central Asia. It offers grants to universities and other institutions of higher educations that teach courses within areas such as regional integration.

Conventions

Eurasia Foundation hosts annual conventions and invites special guests as keynote speakers annually since 2011.
YearLocationNotable Participants / Keynote SpeakersTopics / Theme
2011Hotel Lungwood, Tokyo, JapanKang Sang-Jung
Eiichi Shindo
"Toward the formation of Asian Community"
2012Hyatt Regency, Incheon, South KoreaHak-Su Kim "Towards the Asian Community"
2013The Museum of Asian-African Conference
The Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel, Bandung, Indonesia
Jusuf Kalla
Sunaryo Kartadinata
"Enhancing Asian Competitiveness"
"Developing Education for Better Asia"
2014Jeju Grand Hotel, Jeju, South KoreaRichard Dasher
Yoji Sato
Politics and Economics
History, Education and Social Matters
Culture, Media and Arts
2015WH Ming Hotel, Shangai, ChinaYoji Sato
Sha Zukang
Politics and Economics
History, Education and Social Matters
Culture, Media and Arts
2016InterContinental, Phnom Penh, CambodiaYoji Sato
Anthony Jackson
Present and Future Prospects of Education
2017Nagoya Kanko Hotel, Nagoya, JapanYoichi Komori "Various issues surrounding Peace"
2018Lotte Hotel, Hanoi, VietnamAl Gore "The Climate Crisis and its Solutions"
"Hope for the Future"
2019Lotte Hotel, Seoul, South KoreaKi-moon Ban "Education and Peace"

Other collaborations

The foundation collaborates with the Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation research group at the Complutense University of Madrid.
In 2016, the foundation awarded Dr Kevin Cawley of University College Cork $50,000 to open a course on Asian studies.
In February 2019, the foundation visited Amity University Haryana, where a 3 credit certificate course on One-Asian Community Theory was opened over a 14 week period for 45 students.
February 2020, The Center for Korean Studies at the University of Washington announced they were going to host a lecture series with the foundation's chairman giving a lecture titled, "The World Will Be United in the Near Future" starting on 16 April 2020. However, due to the pandemic, the lecture was cancelled.

Foundation Name Change

In April 2020, the foundation officially changed their name to Eurasia Foundation after the expansion of activities in Europe and the Middle East with the vision to develop their activities globally.