Gunjo Foundation Sponsors Rocket Engineering VTuber Uisuki Kuria
An academic foundation is putting money directly behind an individual VTuber rather than an institution, treating an online science explainer as a legitimate target of academic support.
Reporting from 1 source: PANORA.
The Gunjo Foundation, based in Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture, is sponsoring Uisuki Kuria, a VTuber who explains rocket engineering on YouTube. It is the first initiative of a science communication support project the foundation will fully launch next fiscal year. The foundation will fund her for one and a half years and says it will not interfere with her content.
The Gunjo Foundation names "the promotion of academia" as one of its corporate purposes, and Uisuki Kuria's work sits inside that frame: she explains rocket engineering on YouTube, commentates on live launches, and writes and narrates outside the platform. Chairman Hidetaka Horie's foundation will fund her for one and a half years and says it will fully respect her independence as a creator, with no say over what she publishes. The foundation describes the arrangement as a pioneering case study for backing academic VTubers, and plans to widen the project to other science communicators.
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