Notice of Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology on Soliciting Suggestions for the 2024 National Natural Science Foundation Joint Fund for Regional Innovation and Development (Guangdong)
All relevant units:
According to the guidelines of the National Natural Science Foundation of China on the joint fund for regional innovation and development of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2024 (hereinafter referred to as the “joint fund”), the relevant matters are hereby notified as follows:
I. General requirements
The implementation content of the joint fund should focus on demand traction and problem orientation, face the front-end scientific problems and frontier scientific problems of key core technologies of strategic industrial clusters in our province, and focus on the fields of biology and agriculture, energy and chemical industry, new materials and advanced manufacturing, electronic information, population and health. The contents suggested in the guide shall meet the following requirements.
(1) being scientific. It should be put forward around the important demand in Guangdong’s economic and social development, the urgent demand in industrial development and the common problems in industrial development. The content should focus on scientific issues, be refined accurately, have distinctive characteristics and be innovative; Reflect the characteristics of basic research, avoid biased technical application, and avoid common words such as “development” in non-basic research; Avoid choosing obsolete or repeatedly funded research directions, especially avoiding duplication with other funded projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology.
(2) Normative. Standardized technical terms should be used, and the written expression should be concise and highly concise, so as to avoid problems such as unsmooth sentences, repeated words and misspelled words. Each guide suggests that the research direction can only involve one science department, and at least one two disciplines code should be specified.
(3) inclusiveness. The research direction should be inclusive, without obvious restrictive factors, and other relevant teams should carry out research to ensure certain competitiveness.
(4) guidance. On the premise of inclusiveness, it reflects the needs, advantages and regional characteristics of Guangdong Province as much as possible, and has strong competitiveness for the whole country.
(5) Safety. The guide suggests that we should pay attention to preventing scientific and technological security risks such as biological security and information security, and follow scientific research ethics.
II. Collection requirements
(1) It is suggested in this guide to collect funds according to the funding intensity of 2.6 million yuan/item (direct cost) and the implementation period of 4 years.
(2) The guide suggests that the recommending unit should be a supporting unit registered by the National Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, and it has been approved in the National Natural Science Foundation of 2021 and 2022. Recommended units should combine their own academic advantages, recommend the contents of the guide with high quality, pay attention to the cultivation and convergence of talent gradient, and actively recommend the suggestions made by outstanding young and middle-aged scientific and technological talents. In principle, it is submitted by the recommending unit in a unified way, and it is not supported for individuals to submit it separately.
(3) The guide suggests that the person should have a senior professional and technical post (title), have the experience of undertaking at least two general projects or one above-mentioned projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, or have the experience of undertaking key projects of basic research at or above the provincial level, and meet the requirements of the National Fund Committee for project applicants.
(4) Support the scientific and technological circles and industries to jointly refine scientific issues around the major needs of Guangdong’s economic and social development and put forward guidelines and suggestions.
(5) the collection of this guide is carried out by means of limited recommendation.
- In principle, each recommending unit can submit 1 guide suggestion; In 2022, for every 20 projects approved by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, one additional guide suggestion can be submitted. The upper limit of this category is 10.
- The national laboratory can increase the submission of 3 items (excluding national laboratory sub-bases); Guangdong laboratory can increase the submission of 2 items; The supporting units with State Key Laboratories (Ministry of Science and Technology) can add one item to the list. This point and the first point limit can be superimposed and accumulated.
- No more than 5 suggestions submitted by the same unit in the same field.
III. Guidance collection time and method
(1) It is suggested in this guide that online solicitation should be adopted uniformly, and all units are requested to fill in the form through the Sunshine Government Platform of Guangdong Science and Technology Business Management (website: http://pro.gdstc.gov.cn/) without submitting paper materials. See Annex 2 for the operation flow.
(2) It is suggested in this guide that the online reporting time for collection should be from February 23rd to March 15th, 2023.
Please attach great importance to all units, pay close attention to the organization and selection, and carefully review and submit them. If the over-limit items are recommended, they will be returned.
Contact person and telephone number: Ma Jianqiang, 020-83163885