Biodiversity on a Changing Planet (BoCP) Collaboration Project between NSFC and United States NSF
NSFC has announced a call on biodiversity jointly with US NSF, and it’s encouraged to expand the collaboration among China-US-Brazil, China-US-South Africa, China-US-Brazil-South Africa to make it a multilateral collaboration project.
1. Collaboration Research Project: The funding scale can be up to 4.5 million, and three projects will be funded. The project period will be 5 years from 1st October 2023 – 30th Sept 2028. And the PIs of each country will need to submit the application through their respective funding agencies (NSFC, NSF, FAPESP, NRF).
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23542/nsf23542.htm
2. Collaboration and Exchange Project: the funding scale will not exceed 1 million, and the project period will be three years from 1st October 2023 – 30th Sept 2026. And the PIs of each country will need to submit the application through their respective funding agencies (NSFC, NSF, FAPESP, NRF).
https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf23542/nsf23542.htm
The PI of the Chinese side should have an ongoing NSFC project or have completed a NSFC project which duration is 3-years or more, and host a senior title.
For more details please see the link: https://www.nsfc.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab626/info88381.htm
The application period is from 20th Jan to 29th March, 2023.