Godot Selected for FY2025 Deep-Tech Startup Support Fund/International Joint R&D

Godot Inc. (Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture; CEO: Ken Moriyama) has been selected for the FY2025 'Deep-Tech Startup Support Fund/International Joint R&D' program, administered by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). The project is scheduled to run from FY2026 to FY2029, and will be conducted as an international joint research effort with the Austrian startup Infrared City.

Addressing Global Extremes: Initiating R&D on Urban Planning Support Tools

The FY2025 program, for which Godot was selected in May 2026, aims to support deep-tech startups in conducting joint research and development with overseas companies.

Targeting development with an eye toward international market expansion, the program operates through a mechanism where both NEDO and the corresponding innovation support agencies of partner countries subsidize a portion of their respective national companies' R&D costs. Following external expert review and internal assessment, eight companies, including Godot, were selected from 54 proposals.

[About the Selected Theme]

The selected theme, 'Research and Development of Participatory Urban Climate Adaptation Digital Twin,' aims to build an urban digital twin that combines human behavioral models with urban climate simulations to explore livable urban environments capable of responding to the intensifying impacts of climate change.

In addition to adopting a participatory process where citizens and planners can jointly compare and review scenarios, the company aims to realize a system characterized by transparency and accountability, complying with international AI governance standards, including the EU AI Act.

Godot established an R&D base in Vienna, Austria, in 2023. Building on this foundation and relationships formed through the local government program 'GO Austria,' which the company participated in during 2022, the project will move forward.

[Overview]

Project Name: FY2025 'Deep-Tech Startup Support Fund/International Joint R&D'

Implementing Organization: New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)

Project Objective: Supporting joint R&D between deep-tech startups and overseas companies

Project Period: FY2026 - FY2029

Selected Theme: Research and Development of Participatory Urban Climate Adaptation Digital Twin

Through this project, Godot will advance the development and implementation of models that take into account behavioral principles often missing from climate and human flow simulations, focusing on how humans adapt to urban environments transformed by climate change.