National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) are calling for proposals for collaborative research projects.

You could visit their official website for more information: 2024年度国家自然科学基金委员会与韩国国家研究基金会合作研究项目指南 .

Budget Total: No more than RMB 200,000/proposal from NSFC (direct cost).

Priority Areas: Preparing for the next pandemic – Antimicrobial Resistance 抗微生物耐药性

What to fund:

1. Research funding and international cooperation exchange funding.
2. Up to 2 projects.

Project Period: The research duration in the application should be filled out as from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2027.

Eligibility:

1. The Chinese applicants should hold senior professional technical positions (titles) 高级专业技术职务（职称） and have undertaken or be currently undertaking National Natural Science Foundation projects with a duration of three years or more as PI.
2. The number of domestic collaborative research units should not exceed 2.
3. More details, please refer to <2024 NSFC Guidelines>.

Quota Requirements:

1. An applicant can only apply for one international (regional) collaborative research project in the same year.
2. A PI who is currently undertaking an international (regional) collaborative research project cannot apply for this project as an applicant.
3. Applying for and undertaking this project as an applicant or PI is not counted towards the limit of 2 projects for personnel with senior professional technical positions (titles).
4. Other quota requirements listed in <2024 NSFC Guidelines>

Application Process:

1. Apply online through https://grants.nsfc.gov.cn. Detailed steps, please refer to: 2024年度国家自然科学基金委员会与韩国国家研究基金会合作研究项目指南.
2. Prepare the budget.
3. Prepare the application forms. More details, please refer to: 2024年度国家自然科学基金委员会与韩国国家研究基金会合作研究项目指南.
   • Applicants should co-write an English application with their Korean collaborators (the English application template can be found in Attachment 1) and upload it to the “Attachments” section of the Chinese application for submission. The basic content of both the Chinese and English applications must be consistent, and the project title in English should exactly match the title in the English application.
   • Project applications that do not submit the above required attachments will not be accepted.

Language: Chinese and English.

Internal Deadline: 12:00 pm, Friday, August 16, 2024

If you are interested in applying for this funding opportunity, please submit your proposals via NSFC system by the internal deadline.

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