2024 Collaborative Research Projects Between NSFC and the Dutch Research Council

2024 Collaborative Research Projects Between the NSFC and the Dutch Research Council
2024年度国家自然科学基金委员会与荷兰研究理事会合作研究项目

Oct. 24, 2024

The Official Announcement in Chinese

Sponsor:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
The Dutch Research Council (NWO, Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)

Project Description:

1. Funding area: “Cities Amidst Climate Change: Enhancing Physical and Social Resilience in Urban Areas (See Attachment Research Fields for details)
2. Application code: For application code 1, select application code D01, D07, E08, E10, G0413. Applications with inaccurate or unselected choices will NOT be accepted.
3. NSFC and NWO plan to fund no more than 4 projects. For each project, NSFC will provide funding no more than 3,000,000RMB, including research funding and international cooperation and exchange expenses; NWO will fund no more than 700,000 Euro.
4. The funding period is 4 years, from January 1, 2026 - December 31, 2029.

Applicant Eligibility:

1. Applicants from China (no requirement on nationality) must be a senior professional title holder (i.e., Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor), and must be leading or had led a three-year or above termed NSFC funded program.
2. Dutch collaborators should meet NWO's eligibility requirements for domestic applicants and submit applications to NWO in accordance with the requirements. Applications submitted unilaterally will not be accepted.
3. The Chinese team should include at least one domestic cooperative research unit, and the number of domestic cooperative research units should not exceed 2. The two parties have a good cooperation foundation, and the project application should reflect strong cooperation and complementary advantages.
4. Applicants can only apply for one international (regional) cooperative research project in the same year.
5. An applicant who is in charge of an international (regional) cooperative research project may not apply for this project as an applicant.
6. The project will be counted as one of the two projects in total applied or led by the same PI.
    

For more details, please refer to the official announcement.
 

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