Notification of Application for Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory 2024
The Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong province has initiated the program application for Guangdong provincial key laboratory 2024. Details of application requirements are as follows:
1. Categories
The program sets two subtypes with key laboratories for basic research and key laboratories for technical research.
2. Funding Fiels
Laboratories for basic research:
New generation communication networks, future computing, green and low-carbon energy, intersection of mathematics and physics, and digital economy.
Laboratories for technical research:
New energy vehicles, basic software, semiconductors and integrated circuits, new energy storage, digital creativity, precision instruments and equipment, and marine economy.
3. Duration and Funding Amount
1) 3 years, starts on January 1, 2024.
2) Funds for laboratories of basic research and technical research are 3 million yuan and 1 million yuan respectively.
4. Application Requirements
1) The laboratory director shall meet one of the following conditions:
Laboratories for basic research:
a. Host a national natural science foundation project (including sub-projects) with a funding amount of 3 million yuan or more;
b. Host 1 provincial natural science foundation outstanding youth project;
c. As the first completer to win the first prize of national or provincial science and technology award or above.
※ The above three categories of projects are all approved (awarded) between 2020 and 2022.
Laboratories for technical research:
a. Host a major national science and technology project (including sub-topics) or a national key research and development plan project (including sub-topics) with a funding amount of 2 million yuan or more;
b. Host a provincial science and technology plan project (including sub-projects) with a funding amount of 4 million yuan or more;
c. Receive national or provincial science and technology awards as the first completer;
※ The above three categories of projects are all approved (awarded) between 2020 and 2022.
d. Head of Guangdong province high level university key discipline construction.
2) Research team:
Laboratories for basic research:
No less than 30 fixed researchers. From 2020 to 2022, the team shall undertake no less than 10 scientific research projects at the provincial level or above, with a total project amount of 10 million yuan or more (excluding supporting funds), and more than 80 papers included in SCI/ESCI/EI/PubMed and other databases.
Laboratories for technical research:
No less than 30 fixed researchers. From 2020 to 2022, the team shall undertake no less than 8 scientific research projects at the provincial level or above, with a total project amount of 8 million yuan or more (excluding supporting funds), and participate in the authorization of 30 or more invention patents as an inventor.
3) Scientific research facilities:
Relatively concentrated and moderate-scale experimental rooms and test sites, advanced scientific research instruments and equipment, good technical support conditions and academic activity environment.
4) Past achievements:
Three representative achievements obtained between 2020 and 2022 shall be provided.
5) Open cooperation:
Laboratory instruments and equipment shall provide open services. Laboratories should have substantial domestic and foreign academic exchanges and cooperation. Laboratories for technical research require sound industry-university-research cooperation mechanisms.
5. Procedure of Application
Applicants shall fill out application forms in Chinese and upload supplementary documents online via the application system (http://pro.gdstc.gd.gov.cn/) by 17:00 on Oct. 13, 2023, without submitting any hard copies.
※For applicants who have no login ID for application system, please send your name, academic title, email address, telephone number to luoyan@cuhk.edu.cn by Sep. 28, 2023 to open account.
6. Other Requirements
1) The laboratory should be named Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of XXX (2024).
2) The laboratory director must work full-time in the laboratory, and the fixed members must not overlap with the existing fixed personnel of the national key laboratory, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint laboratory and provincial key laboratory.
3) Only 1 application per category can be submitted.
7. Contact Information
Yan Luo，235-15207，luoyan@cuhk.edu.cn
