2024 National Key R&D Program on Ecological Environment Related Areas

2024 National Key R&D Program on Ecological Environment Related Areas
2024年度 重点研发计划 “大气与土壤、地下水污染综合治理” “典型脆弱生态系统保护与修复” 等重点专项项目

August 13, 2024
The Official Announcement in Chinese

Sponsor: 
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)
Ministry of Ecology and Environment

About:
The National Key R&D Program plans to fund a number of projects in the fields of ecological environment in 2024. Please refer to the official announcement for more details.

Research Directions/Topics:

• Integrated Governance of Air, Soil and Groundwater Pollution

1. Monitoring Regulatory Technology
2. Research on the Cause Mechanism
3. Governance and Restoration Technology
4. Decision Support Technology
5. Typical Regional Practices
    

• Protection and Restoration of Typical Fragile Ecosystems

1. National Ecological Security Identification, Early Warning and Supervision Technology
2. Protection and Restoration Technology for Key Ecological Areas
3. Synergistic Technology for Urban Ecological Function Enhancement and Regional Ecological Security
4. Biodiversity Conservation Technology
5. Demonstration of Ecological Restoration and Safety Guarantee Technology for Major Projects
6. Frontier and Exploratory Methods and Technologies for Ecological Conservation and Restoration

Each direction has specific funding areas. The program also provides a separate Young Scientist Program type, which encourages young researchers to lead the project. Please contact us at shanghai.researchgrants@nyu.edu to receive a detailed application guide.

Funding Amount and Period:
For the “Integrated Governance of Air, Soil and Groundwater Pollution”, the program plans to fund 23 projects in total. The funding amount is about 35,000,000 RMB. The funding amount of the Young Scientist Program is 3,000,000 RMB per project. The project period is three ~ four years.

For the “Protection and Restoration of Typical Fragile Ecosystems”, the program plans to fund 22 projects in total. The funding amount is 20,000,000 - 30,000,000 RMB per project. The funding amount of the Young Scientist Program is 3,000,000 RMB per project. The project period is three ~ four years.

Application Eligibility:

• The PI must have a senior professional title or a Ph.D. degree; and commit to work on the proposed project at least 6 month per year;
• The PI should be under 60 years old (born after January 1, 1964). For the Young Scientists Program, male PI should be under 38 years old (born after January 1, 1986), female PI should be under 40 years old (born after January 1, 1984). In principle, the age requirements for other team members are the same as above;
• A project can include up to five sub-projects (课题) and ten participating institutions, with one PI for the project and one for each sub-project. The project must be submitted as a whole, covering all assessment indicators. The lead PI of the project can also lead one sub-project. The Young Scientist Project has no sub-project and is limited to three participating institutions.
• Each (sub-project) PI can only apply for one (sub)-project; The lead PI (PIs of sub-projects are excluded) of the ongoing National Key R&D Program, and Science & Technology Innovation 2030 – Major program cannot lead or participate in the application;
• The number of ongoing research projects (National Key R&D Program, and Science & Technology Innovation 2030 - Major Program) that the PI and major participants of the proposed project participate in shall not exceed two. The "Inter-governmental International Cooperation" projects and the cooperation projects with HK, Macau and Taiwan with a funding less than 4 million RMB are excluded;
• The applicant can apply for and take on up to two projects or sub-award project of the following programs: National Key R&D Program (excluding Young Scientist projects, Science and Technology small and medium-sized enterprise projects, and International Cooperation projects, limited to PI and sub-project PI), Science and Technology Innovation 2030-Major Program (excluding Young Scientist projects, limited to PI and sub-PI), and NSFC Major Program (limited to PI and sub-PI), Basic Science Center Program (limited to PI and major participants), National Major Scientific Research Instrument Development Program (limited to PI and major participants with senior professional titles of department-recommended projects);
• Projects with an end date before December 31, 2024 are not counted towards the limit.

Please refer to the official announcement for more eligibility information.

Application Process:

• All applicants need to apply via the MOST online system.
• The application portal for the National Key R&D Program will open from 8 AM (GMT +8) on August 20, 2024, to 4 PM (GMT +8) on September 25, 2024.

Important Dates: