Dear leaders and colleagues:
Our university has received notification from the Macau Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) that applications for the "2023 FDCT-NSFC Joint Subsidy Program" are now officially accepted. The colleagues who are interested in applying the application obtain the approval from your Faculty/ Research Institute/ Research Supervisor of Department, then get the original recommendation form (including the opinions and signatures), both hard copy and WORD files of research proposal, as well as related attachments should be submitted on or before February 13, 2023 to David Xu (Tel: 3278/62913892, Email: yuanxu@must.edu.mo).
The research project for this program has the following requirements:
1. The Maximum applied amount of each project in this scheme granted by the FDCT is MOP 2.5 million, to be released in installments in a maximum of 3 years. The Macao grantee must implement the project according to the “Funding Agreement” signed with the FDCT.
2. Major Area for Support: This scheme mainly supports basic research or applied basic research projects jointly proposed by Mainland-Macao research candidates, prior to the following fields: Information Science, Traditional Chinese Medicine Research, Marine Science, Environmental Science, Biological Science, New Materials Science and Space Science.
3. The Macao applicant must fully discuss with its cooperating partner in Mainland China on issues such as the research content, the research plan and the division of labor. Then the project proposal should be filled out accordingly, together with the signed cooperation agreement or memorandum with the Mainland’s counterpart and submit to the deadline. Please prepare the cooperation agreement or memorandum as soon as possible, because of it requires the signatures and seals of both parties. If the cooperation agreement requires the signature and seal of the university president, a separate application form must be filled out and a minimum of 7 working days must be allowed for follow-up.
4. Mainland partners must also declare to NSFC. Details on applications can be referred to the relevant guidelines published by the NSFC.
5. Consistency of the project name and name of the PI of both parties listed in the submitted proposal is strongly recommended, where the research content should clearly state the complementary advantages of this cooperation.
6. In accordance with the "Trial Measures for Principal Investigator to Undertake Projects under Research by FDCT" and the relevant restrictions of NSFC, it is not appropriate to apply for "2023 FDCT-NSFC Joint Subsidy Program" if any of the following conditions exist：
a) The PI who already has ongoing NSFC projects, that base on Zhuhai MUST Science and Technology Research Institute.
Moreover, we are attaching Guideline, the Research Project Recommendation Form, Research Proposal template Part one & Part two（The template is for reference only. Do not use it. Please download the official version in the fund system） , Subject Codes (only Chinese version) and Application of Signature (cooperation agreements that need University President signature and seal) for this time application. In order to assist the Principal Investigator to improve the quality of their research proposals, RTAO will uniformly arrange the format review this time, so please be sure to submit application documents within internal deadline (on or before February 13, 2023). If the project fails to be submitted on time or the project fails to complete the internal reviews, we will consider not to recommending your application to FDCT for further process.
For more details please check https://www.fdct.gov.mo/en/union_funding_detail/article/jezcbype.html
Thank you for your kind attention. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.