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About the grant: The objective of the International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Program is to provide necessary supports for the researchers involved in NSFCfunded on-going projects to participate widely in international cooperation and exchange activities.
Award Details: Up to now, NSFC has already established international cooperation and exchange relationships with 70 science funding organizations and research institutions in 35 countries and regions. Funding schemes include internatinal academic conferences held in China and international (regional) exchange program. Please refer to the guide to programs
Eligibility: ZJU scholars, including international faculty, are eligible for these awards.
Application Details:The award deadlines are between Febuary 15 and March 20 each year. For details on application requirements and other questions, please address to Ms LU Danyang,kyyldy@zju.edu.cn
About the grant: This fund is established to provide steady support for research groups, which is composed of excellent young researchers, to conduct innovative reseach on the focused areas
Award Details: Please refer to the guide to programs
Eligibility: ZJU scholars, including international faculty, are eligible for these awards.
Application Details:The award deadlines are between Febuary 15 and March 24 each year. For details on application requirements and other questions, please address to Ms LU Danyang,kyyldy@zju.edu.cn
About the grant: As one of the talent training programs, the Excellent Young Scientists Fund functions as a key link between the Young ScientistsFund and the National Science Fund for the Distinguished Young Scholars and plays a key role in nurturing young talents with innovative potential. It aims to support young researchers with a track record of 5-10 years of basic research and a certain amount of research achievements. It encourages young researchers to conduct basic research on topics chosen at their own discretion.
Award Details: Please refer to the guide to programs.Age requirement may be applied here.
Eligibility: ZJU scholars, including international faculty, are eligible for these awards.
Application Details:The award deadlines are between Febuary 15 and March 20 each year. For details on application requirements and other questions, please address to Ms LU Danyang,kyyldy@zju.edu.cn
About the grant: The objective of this fund is to initiate the independent research career of young scientists and forest outstanding young scientists with research potential. The fund is aiming at providing support for young researchers, training talented researchers, supporting independent research, and encouraging innovationl
Award Details: Please refer to the guide to programs
Eligibility: ZJU scholars, including international faculty, are eligible for these awards. Age requirement may be applied here.
Application Details:The award deadlines are between Febuary 15 and March 20 each year. For details on application requirements and other questions, please address to Ms LU Danyang,kyyldy@zju.edu.cn
About the grant: To encourage Chinese scientists to join international cooperation in order to enhance the innovative capability of the country, NSFC has developed a funding scheme for international (regional) cooperation to promote bilateral and multilateral collaborations. It is encouraged that Chinese scientists initiate international (regional) research plans, and participate in large-scaled international collaborations of the mega-science projects. NSFC would like to further promote internatinal (regional) cooperation to stimulate the training of Chinese talents and the utilization of foreign human resources, enhance high quality implementation of on-going funded projects and improve the ability in basic reseach and the impact in the international science communities.
Award Details: Funding schemes include the Key International (Regional) JointResearch Program and the International (Regional) Joint Research Program under the framework of MOUs/Agreements between NSFC and its partners. Please refer to the guide to programs
Eligibility: ZJU scholars, including international faculty, are eligible for these awards.
Application Details:The award deadlines are between Febuary 15 and March 20 each year. For details on application requirements and other questions, please address to Ms LU Danyang,kyyldy@zju.edu.cn
About the grant:Focusing on China’s major strategic needs and grand challenges in the scientific frontiers, the Major Research Program aims to make focused deply in research areas where China possesses a sound basis and strength in line with the general working policy of “fulfilling integrated upgrading, and great-leap-forward development through sustained funding with defined objectives”. Based on top-down design of priority research objectives by a steering expert group, it includes an intgrated cluster of projects with unified objectives or orientations to be carried out concertedly by excellent research teams. With an emphasis on in-depth integrated research on key scientific issues, it is intended to realize breakthroughs in a number of key research areas and orientations, so as to provide scientific support for China’s national economy and socio-economic development.
Award Details:Please refer to the guide to programs
Eligibility:ZJU scholars, including international faculty, are eligible for these awards.
Application Details:The award deadlines are between Febuary 15 and March 20 each year. For details on application requirements and other questions, please address to Ms LU Danyang,kyyldy@zju.edu.cn
About the grant: The Major Program is set up to support multidisciplinary and comprehensive research on strategic key scientific issues through collective efforts for serving the major and critical needs from the development of science and technology and the nation’s eco-social development, with a view to promoting China’s capacity of original innovation in basic research.
Award Details: Please refer to the guide to programs
Eligibility: ZJU scholars, including international faculty, are eligible for these awards.
Application Details:The award deadlines are between Febuary 15 and March 20 each year. For details on application requirements and other questions, please address to LU Danyang,kyyldy@zju.edu.cn
About the grant: To promote a balanced, coordinated and sustainable disciplinary development, this grant support scientists to perform innovative researches on topics they freely select within funding areas defined by NSFC.
Award Details: Please refer to the guide to programs
Eligibility: ZJU scholars, including international faculty, are eligible for these awards.
Application Details:The award deadlines are between Febuary 15 and March 20 each year. For details on application requirements and other questions, please address to Ms LU Danyang, kyyldy@zju.edu.cn
About the grant: To promote a balanced, coordinated and sustainable disciplinary development, this grant support scientists to perform innovative researches on topics they freely select within funding areas defined by NSFC.
Award Details: Please refer to the guide to programs
Eligibility: ZJU scholars, including international faculty, are eligible for these awards.
Application Details: The award deadlines are between Febuary 15 and March 20 each year. For details on application requirements and other questions, please address to Ms LU Danyang, kyyldy@zju.edu.cn
About the grant:The Fund encourage applicants to conduct basic research with originiality and innovation value, following the domestic and foreign academic research frontier and discipline construction.Proposed research should be based on the needs of national development with theoretical and practical focus of global, strategic and forward-looking issues.
Award Details: The research duration for this award is generally within three years. There are four funding schemes, including Planned Fund Program (total amount £ 100,000 RMB), Young Scientist Program (total amount £ 80,000 RMB), Self-organized Fund Program (the amount from internal source £ 80,000 RMB) and Special Program (the amount to be determined).
Eligibility: ZJU Scholars, including international faculty, are eligible for the award.
Application Details:The award deadlines are varied every year. For details on application requirements and other questions, please address to Ms SHAO Shuyu, shaoshuyu@zju.edu.cn.
About the grant:This program mainly focuses on the major social welfare research related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, as well as the major scientific and technological problems related to the core competitiveness of the industry, the overall capacity of independent innovation and national security, and to break through the technical bottlenecks in the main areas of national economic and social development.
Eligibility:ZJU Scholars, including international faculty, are eligible for the award.
Application Details:The award deadlines are varied depending on subjects.For details on application requirements and other questions, please address to Ms LU Danyang,kyyldy@zju.edu.cn
Award Details: Since 2016, there are 46 focused subjects released by the MOST and more than 1077 projects have been funded with the funding amount up to 45.167 billion RMB.
NOTE：More subjects may be released by the MOST.
Key basic material technology promotion and industrialization
Strategic advanced electronic materials
Major scientific instrument and equipment development
Material making and laser manufacturing
Earth observation and navigation
High performance computing
Clean and efficient utilization of coal and new energy saving technology
New energy vehicle
Advanced track traffic
Reseach on reproductive health and prevention and control of major birth defects
Precision medicine research
Smart grid technology and equipment
Cyberspace Security
Key technology and support platform for material genetic engineering
The key technology of biological safety research and development
Biomedical materials research and development and replacement of tissue and organ repair
Prevention and control of major chronic noncommunicable diseases
Research and development of digital diagnosis and treatment equipment
Research on stem cells and transformation
Risk prevention and control of public safety and emergency technical equipment
Green building and construction industrialization
Marine environmental safety guarantee
Key technology and equipment of deep sea
Research and application of national quality based common technology
High efficiency development and utilization of water resources
Research on typical fragile ecological restoration and protection
Study on the cause and control technology of air pollution
Global change
Protein machine and the control of life process
Large scientific equipment
Nanoscale science and technology
Quantum control
Intelligent agricultural machinery equipment
Modern food processing and grain harvesting, storage and transportation technology and equipment
Forestry resources cultivation and high efficient utilization technology innovation
Comprehensive technology and development of livestock and poultry epidemic prevention，control and high efficient safe breeding
Seven major crop breeding
Integrated control and remediation technology for agricultural non-point and heavy metal pollution
Increasing grain yield and increasing efficiency of science and technology
Research and development of chemical fertilizer and pesticide application and Synergistic Technology
R & D and key scientific issues
Research and development of food safety
Key technologies, modernization of traditional Chinese medicine
Major natural disasters monitoring，early warning and prevention
Intelligent robots and modern service industry
The key technologies of R & D and application