Notice of application for National Key R&D Program 2020
The Ministry of Science and Technology of the PRC has initiated National Key R&D Program application which includes 13 special subitems this time. Details of application requirements are as follows:
1.Funding fields
Including Robot and intelligent manufacturing, advanced materials, intelligent transportation, smart power grid, new energy, broadband communication and new types of network, IoT, etc.
※Please find more details of research contents as attached.
2.Funding amount and duration
The duration of program is three or four years and the average funding intensity is about five to thirty million yuan per project (please refer Annex 1-Guide for more details).
3.Requirements
A. Applicants shall meet the following qualifications:
(1) Born on or after January 1, 1960;
(2) Have senior academic title or PhD degree;
(3)Shall not less than six months per year for researching.
B. Shall conduct collaborative research with researchers from research institutes, enterprises and universities within China;
C. Agreements（the agreement should include terms of division of tasks, ownership of intellectual property, etc.）shall be signed by the applicants and the whole collaborative institutions;
D. Applicant shall only apply for one project or subtask concurrently;
E. The total number of the national programs(except for NSFC programs) a researcher applies for (including as applicant and main participant) and undertakes (including as applicant and main participant) shall not exceed 2;
F. Shall upload employment proof for applicants from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign countries;
G. Proposal shall be written in Chinese;
H. Applicants shall read the application guide(Annex 1-Guide )carefully for more specific requirements.
4.Procedure of application
Online application
Applicants shall fill out application forms and upload supplementary documents online via the application system ( http://service.most.gov.cn ) .
- For applicants who have no login ID, please send your name, gender, academic title, email address, telephone number, office phone, ID type, ID number to kevingao@cuhk.edu.cn by March 31,2020 to open account.
Paperless submission
In the stage of submission, applicants shall only submit online application, without having to submit any hard copies.
5.Deadline
Applicants shall submit online application forms by May 13, 2020. After submission, the RAO will review and feedback.
6.Contact information
Gao Shang kevingao@cuhk.edu.cn
