Notification of NSFC and Science and Technology Development Fund of Macao (FDCT) joint research program 2022
The NSFC has initiated NSFC-FDCT joint research program 2022. Details of application requirements are as follows:
1. Funding fields
Information science, traditional Chinese medicine, biological science, marine and environmental science, new materials science and space science.
2. Funding amount and duration
The duration is three years with the maximum funding intensity 2 million yuan per project(direct cost).
※ The start time in application form should be January 1, 2023 and finish time should be December 31, 2025
3. Eligibility of applicants
A. Applicants shall meet the following qualifications:
(1) Have senior academic title;
(2) Applicant must be a PI in a NSFC research grant (ongoing or completed) with a duration of at least 3 years;
(3) If applicant is funded by the International (Regional) Joint Research project as the PI, he or she can’t apply for this program as PI before project completed.
B. Applicants and Macao cooperators shall apply for the project to NSFC and FDCT respectively. Unilateral application will be invalid.
4. Procedure of application
Online application
Applicants shall fill out application forms via the application system ( https://isisn.nsfc.gov.cn/ ). Please find more details of system operating steps as attached(Annex 1)
※ For applicants who have no application account, please send your name, academic title, ID/Passport No. , email address to nikkichen@cuhk.edu.cn by Mar. 11, 2022 to open account.
Paperless submission
In the stage of submission, applicants shall only submit online application, without submitting any hard copies.
5. Other requirements
A. Application limit
? This program is not subject to the NSFC total number limit;
? The total number of NSFC-FDCT program a researcher applies for as PI shall not exceed one in the same year.
B. Applicants with overseas identity who are employed at CUHK(SZ) can’t apply for or participate in this program both as the Macao collaborator and Mainland researcher at the same time;
C. The Mainland collaborative institutions involved shall not exceed 2 in number;
D. Proposal shall be written in Chinese;
E. Applicants shall upload the following supplementary documents:
? Agreement signed by applicant and Macao cooperators;
? The final version of application forms which submitted to FDCT by Macao cooperators.
F. Applicant shall read the application guide(Annex 1) carefully for more specific requirements.
6. Deadline
Applicant shall submit application form online by 12:00 on April 19, 2022, without submitting any hard copies.
Contact information
Research Administration Office
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
