Ministry of Science and Technology key R&D program- strategic scientific innovation cooperation key special program
- Project application procedures
Based on the application requirement listed on the guideline, all applicants should use the national technology information management system (http://service.most.gov.cn) for project application. Applicants should submit a pre declaration document in around 3000 words using this system. This document should describe the project’s objectives, the project’s key performance indicators, a brief description regarding the project’s innovation, project’s technology roadmap, the project’s research foundation and other required documents specified by the guideline.
Applicant organization should sign a joint application agreement with all other participant organizations, which should clearly state the signing time. Project applicant organization and project leader should also sign a letter of commitment to integrity.
- Applicant’s qualification requirement
- Lead organization, participant organizations and project team members all should have good academic integrity record. They should not have any serious academic dishonesty record within their disciplinary period or being listed on the social credit “blacklist”.
One applicant organization can only apply for one project based on the recommendation of one single institution, repetitive application based on same recommend institution or repetitive application to the same program is not allowed.
- Project leader should have a senior title or a doctorate degree and born after 1st Jan 1962. Also, the project leader should spend at least 6 months working on his/her project every year.
- Project leader can only apply for one project. However, individual who is leading a national scientific major special project or ongoing technological innovation 2030 – major project (including tasks and research topics) are disqualified for the application of this program. Also, national scientific major special project, major special project of national key R&D program or project leaders of ongoing major special project (excluding leaders of tasks or research topics) cannot apply for this program.
Project leader and project key members can only host or participate one project from this program.
The maximum number of projects, including the number of national scientific major special projects and technological innovation 2030 – major projects, project leaders and project key members can apply for is two. Project leaders of National Science and Technology Major Projects, national key R&D program, and technological innovation 2030 – major projects should not withdraw from their existing projects because of their application in special projects of national key R&D program (including tasks and research topics).In principle, if Project leaders and project key members of National Science and Technology Major Project, national key R&D program and ongoing technological innovation 2030 – major projects withdraw from their research team, they cannot lead or participate in applying new national key R&D program.
Regulations listed above do not apply to ongoing projects with a project planning Execution period (including delayed execution period) before 31th Dec. 2022 (including tasks and research topics) and inter-governmental international technological innovation cooperation key programs that have a national funding less than 4 million yuan.
- Foreign scientists and scientists from Hongkong, Macao and Taiwan regions that are employed by origination in mainland china can serve as project leader. However, full time employee should submit valid documents provided by his/her employer in mainland China, while part time employees should submit valid documents provide by both organizations he/she serves, as part of the project’s application documents.
- In principle, after a project is accepted and under process, its applicant organization and project leaders cannot be changed.
- Project content and project cooperation methods should Conform to the laws and regulations in China and in other countries (regions, international organizations) where the partner organization is located. For Cooperation activities that require review and apply for approval in advance, such as activities that involve human genetic resources, the applicant organization should apply for review and approval in advance that Conforms to the laws and regulations in mainland A project can only be approved after it has all require formalities
All parties should reach an agreement or a letter of intent regarding the intellectual property ownership and attribution of benefits gained from commercialization of the project. The agreement should Conform to clauses in the Chinese laws and regulations that specify the ownership of intellectual property and how should benefit gained from commercialization of the project be distributed (the agreement should be attached with a letter of intent, a memorandum, a certification letter, or clearly defined clauses in a Sino-foreign agreement.
- The Chinese organizations should explicitly request their foreign partner organizations and individuals to comply with the following requirements: foreign project leader should not cooperate with different Chinese organizations for repetitive application based on the same research area and technical route. Foreign scientists who have been recruited by Chinese organizations and working on National Science and Technology Major Projects or ongoing national key R&D program (including tasks and research topics), should not take part in the application of this program as foreign personnel. The maximum number of projects foreign project leaders can apply or participate is two.
- Detailed application procedures
The acceptance time for project applicant organizations to fill in and submit their pre-declaration form is from 8:00 am 13th July 2022 to 16:00 pm 26th August 2022.
The 2022 joint R&D and demonstration projects of “strategic technological innovation and cooperation” major projects application guideline
Research areas and directions
This guideline is aiming to initiate projects about carbon neutralization, climate change, healthcare and other research areas. There will be a total number of 39 research directions and the total amount of national funding is 250 million Chinese yuan. All projects should be applied according to the research tasks indicated by the secondary title (such as 2.1). the research content of the applied project should cover all listed research content and key performance indicators under the specific secondary title. If not otherwise specified, every research direction contains one to two projects. More specifically: in principle, each research direction contains one project. However, after the board review, if the top two projects are both accepted by the committee and their technical route differ significantly from one and other, then this research direction will contain two projects. These two projects will be supported using a two stages scheme. Both projects will be revaluated, which is based on their implementation conditions during their first stage. How these projects will be supported during their second stage is also determined by the evaluation result.
Both projects do not consist of any tasks (or research topics) and the maximum number of participating Chinese companies is 10. Normally, the duration of a project should be less than 3 years. To apply for a project, there should at one foreign organization being one of the applicants. There is no restriction on the number of foreign organizations involved. Details of the guideline are listed below.
- Technological cooperation on carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)
- Key technologies and industrial demonstration of carbon capture generality in industrial combustion
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 2:1
- Key technologies and implementation demonstration of using carbon dioxide to improve oil reservoir collection efficiency and geological storage integration
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 2:1
- R&D and demonstration of key technologies in reginal carbon dioxide capturing and safekeeping
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 2:1
- Technological cooperation on electricity generation using new energy
- international cooperation in the testing of the weather resistance of photovoltaic power and technologies used in ecological design evaluation
Additional requirement：participant organizations should include at least one third party testing organization with a specialty in photovoltaic power.
- Joint R&D of key technologies in maritime Super long soft blade
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- The R&D of technology in producing biodiesel using straw biomass and pharmaceutical intermediates
- Technological cooperation on advanced energy storage
- Cooperative R&D of key technology in electricity storage using high density heat pump
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative R&D of key technology in high temperature resistance, long lifespan and high safety level electrochemical energy storage
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative R&D of key technology in uninterruptable power supply data center with active grid support
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 2:1
- Cooperative R&D of key technology in safety evaluation of international lithium ion battery energy storage
- Technological cooperation on hydrogen energy
- Cooperative R&D in hydrogen energy storage and distributed multiple energy sources system that based on safe hydrogen storage
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative R&D of key technologies in high precision manufacturing of large bipolar plate used in hydrogen electricity conversion stack
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative R&D in catalyser carriers and catalyser the used in hydrogen electricity conversion
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Technological cooperation on new energy car
- Cooperative research and implementation demonstration of super-fast charging/battery exchanging and V2G technology
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative research of key technologies in testing and evaluating new energy car’s operation failure and accident detection assessment.
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative research about the safety of the full life cycle of high specific energy battery used in new energy vehicles
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative research, development and implementation of key technologies in the aerodynamics of new energy vehicle
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Technological cooperation on low carbon or zero carbon industry
- Cooperative R&D of key technologies and equipment used in low carbon emission metallurgy
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative R&D of key technologies and equipment sued in the manufacturing and implementation of new low carbon cement
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative R&D of the key technologies and equipment used in low carbon/zero carbon emission in chemical industry
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative research of the comparison and implementation of low carbon/zero carbon emission technologies used in “double high” industrial cluster
- Technological cooperation on low carbon emission in construction industry
- Cooperative research and demonstration of green and low carbon transformation and carbon neutralization technologies used in existing architecture
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative research and demonstration of key technologies used in carbon emission reduction in downtown and block areas.
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative research and implementation of key technologies in the energy saving and low carbon emission in municipal infrastructure
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Technological cooperation on carbon emission reduction technologies used in ships
- Cooperative R&D of key technologies and equipment for highly efficient carbon dioxide capturing and storage on ships
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 2:1
- Cooperative research and application development of key technologies in zero carbon emission fuel used in power system of ship
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 2:1
- Cooperation on climate change
- Cooperative research of the star to earth monitoring and evaluation methods and standards for methane emission
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Cooperative R&D of strategies and technologies for non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gases emission reduction in agricultural production
- Cooperative research of the coupling impact mechanism about how would climate change and human activities influence the blue carbon ecology of countries along the maritime silk road
- Joint study of technological evaluation and environmental management of biological diversity protection and climate change adaptation
- Joint study of collaborative control, monitoring and evaluating greenhouse gases and atmospheric pollutant in cities.
- Cooperation in the field of life and health
- Research of the genetic mechanism and intervention of Cerebrovascular phenotype and its prognosis based on artificial intelligence and multi-omics data
- The prevention and intervention of Cardiovascular injury related to antineoplastic drugs
- International joint study in the intellectual diagnosis of multimodal imaging of cardiovascular disease
- Research in the integrated prevention and control strategies of coronary disease that based on emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and informatics
- Research and development of key technologies for the discovery of new target points, new mechanisms and original drugs in inflammatory immune disease
- The integration and implementation of research and development support system that based on artificial intelligence
Additional requirement：the ratio between supporting funding and national funding should be higher than 1:1
- Research in the pathogenesis, early warming and intervention of Parkinson’s disease
- Personalised and accurate diagnosis and treatment of inherited skin immune disease based on multi-omics data