According to the National Natural Science Fund Committee will (NSFC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) of the bilateral cooperation agreement and consensus and Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) reached, the parties will In 2022, we will launch the solicitation and funding of cooperative research and exchange projects in the field of "Biodiversity Changing the Earth (BoCP)" to deepen Sino-US cooperation in the field of biodiversity, and encourage Chinese scientists to develop Sino-US-based on Sino-US cooperation Brazil, China-U.
Committee member 1.
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"Changes in the Earth's biodiversity" project based on "Biological Diversity multidimensional foundation degree" and "Ecology and Evolution Cross" and other projects on, but the functional dimension of the earth's biological diversity is mainly focused on the background to clarify changes
Multidimensional The research fields of "The Biodiversity of the Changing Earth" include, but are not limited to the following:
(1) Understand how changes in functional diversity stimulate responses at the scale of species, communities, and ecosystems
(2) Improve the model and predict the functional response of biodiversity at different biological scales to environmental changes that cause its loss, gain, and reorganization
(3) Understand the internal relationships among ecosystem-scale events, climate and geological processes, and their relationship with changes in biodiversity functions
(4) Understand the internal mechanism of functional diversity improvement, and the interaction between phylogeny and spatial distribution patterns and ecological and evolutionary processes
(5) Understand how new physiological, developmental, morphological or behavioral characteristics can lead to the loss, gain and reorganization of biodiversity on different biological scales
(6) To study how the defense and/or attack characteristics in the coordination and antagonistic interaction between organisms at different biological scales lead to the loss, gain and reorganization of biodiversity
The project application should be oriented to key scientific issues and clarify the deficiencies in the theory, methods, basic conditions, and data of biodiversity scientific research
For the US project guide, please see:
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Chinese applicants should choose the code of the Ministry of Life Sciences (C03) as the application code 1 to fill in the Chinese application form according to the research content
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The scale of funding
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The scale of funding does not exceed 3 items
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Intensity of funding
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China’s funding intensity for approved projects is not more than 4.
5 million yuan, including research funds and international travel expenses (air tickets are in economy class) used to fund exchange activities for Chinese researchers, living expenses abroad, and other activities closely related to exchange activities.
Cost
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The US funding intensity is no more than 2.
5 million US dollars per project, including research funding and international travel expenses used to fund US researchers’ exchange activities, living expenses abroad, and other expenses closely related to exchange activities
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Declaration requirements
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(1) The funding period is 5 years, and the research period in the application should be filled in from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2027
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(2) The number of domestic cooperative research units shall not exceed 2
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(3) All applicants must respectively submit project applications to the scientific funding agencies of their countries (ie NSFC, NSF, FAPESP, NRF)
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(4) The project application should reflect the combination of strong powers and complementary advantages
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(2) Cooperation and exchange projects
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Funding areas
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As a cooperative exchange project, it aims to promote the establishment of new research teams by researchers from participating countries of the "Change the Earth's Biodiversity" project
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In view of the complexity of such cooperation, the project encourages those who have no previous cooperation experience to form a team with innovative research and technical approaches, aiming to address the critical but unproven and novelty of the functional dimensions of complex biodiversity in the context of a changing earth.
Or high-risk characterizations are prepared for research
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Applications based on existing cooperative teams will not be funded
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For the US project guide, please see:
https://
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Application code
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Chinese applicants should choose the code of the Ministry of Life Sciences (C03) as the application code 1 to fill in the Chinese application form according to the research content
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Intensity of funding
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China's funding intensity for approved projects is not more than 1 million yuan, including international travel expenses (air tickets in economy class) used to fund exchange activities for Chinese researchers, living expenses abroad, and other expenses closely related to exchange activities
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The US funding intensity is no more than 500,000 US dollars per item, including international travel expenses, living expenses abroad and other expenses closely related to exchange activities used to fund US researchers to carry out exchange activities
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Declaration requirements
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(1) The funding period is 3 years, and the research period in the application should be filled in from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025
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(2) All applicants must respectively submit project applications to the scientific funding agencies of their countries (ie NSFC, NSF, FAPESP, NRF)
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Application conditions
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Application conditions (1) Applicants for inter-organization international (regional) cooperative research projects should meet the following requirements
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Have a senior professional technical position (title)
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As the person in charge of the project, he is undertaking or undertaking the National Natural Science Foundation of China for 3 years or more
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Have a good foundation for cooperation with foreign (regional) partners
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Please refer to the "Guide to National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2022" for detailed instructions on application qualifications
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(2) Applicants for inter-organizational international (regional) cooperation and exchange programs should meet the following requirements
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The project leader who is undertaking the National Natural Science Foundation of China for 3 years and above
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Participants who are undertaking the National Natural Science Foundation of China for a period of 3 years or more and have a senior professional technical position (title) or a doctorate, or 2 scientific and technical personnel with the same research field and senior professional technical position (title) Personnel recommendation shall be approved by the person in charge of the funded project
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The Chinese and foreign applicants should establish a new cooperative relationship, aiming to lay the foundation for subsequent substantive cooperative research
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Please refer to the "Guide to National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2022" for detailed instructions on application qualifications
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Restrictions on application requirements
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Restrictions on application requirements (1) Cooperative research projects
International (regional) cooperative research projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China include inter-organizational international (regional) cooperative research projects and key international (regional) cooperative research projects
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The cooperative research project is an inter-organization cooperative research project.
Applicants must comply with the following restrictions when applying:
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Applicants (excluding major participants) can only apply for one international (regional) cooperative research project in the same year
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The person in charge of an international (regional) cooperative research project is not allowed to apply for the cooperative research project listed in this guide as an applicant
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Apply as an applicant and undertake the cooperative research projects listed in the guide as the person in charge, including applications for senior professional positions (titles) (including applicants and main participants) and undertaking (including the person in charge and main participants) The total number of projects is limited to 2 items (except for inter-organizational cooperative research projects applied for or undertaken as major participants)
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Other restrictions on the number of applications in the "Guide to National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2022"
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(2) Cooperation and exchange projects
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Applicants for cooperative exchange programs are not restricted by the stipulation that “applicants can only apply for one project of the same type in the same year”
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The international (regional) cooperation and exchange project under the same inter-organization agreement framework applied as an applicant and undertaking as the project leader is limited to one in total
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Applying for the cooperation and exchange projects listed in this guide is not subject to the total number of applications and commitments
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Other restrictions on the number of applications in the "Guide to National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2022"
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Four, application notes
Four, application notes (1) Notes for applicants
The application forms for international (regional) cooperative research projects and cooperative exchange projects between organizations are written online.
The specific requirements for applicants are as follows:
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Before filling in the application form, the applicant should carefully read the relevant content in this project guide and the "National Natural Science Foundation of China Project Guide for 2022".
Project applications that do not meet the project guide and related requirements will not be accepted
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Applicants log in to the Science Foundation Network Information System (https://isisn.
nsfc.
gov.
cn/egrantweb/), and write the "National Natural Science Foundation of China International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Project Application" in accordance with the outline and related requirements.
(Hereinafter referred to as "Chinese Application")
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The specific steps are:
(1) Select the "Project Leader" user group to log in to the system, and then click "Apply Online" to enter the application interface; click the "Add Project Application" button to enter the selection interface of the science department of the applied project; click "Apply for the General Science Department Project "Enter the project category selection interface
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(2) Click the + sign on the left of "International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Projects" or the "Expand" button on the right to expand the drop-down menu;
(3) For applicants of cooperative research projects, click "fill in application" on the right side of "inter-organizational cooperative research (inter-organizational cooperation agreement project)", enter the selection "cooperation agreement" interface, and select "NSFC-NSF ( China and the United States)”, and then enter the approval number of the fund project to be relied on according to the system requirements, and enter the specific application form filling interface after passing the qualification certification
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(4) For applicants for cooperation and exchange projects, click "fill in application" on the right side of "cooperation and exchange (inter-organizational cooperation agreement projects)", enter the selection "cooperation agreement" interface, and select "NSFC-NSF (China-US )”, and then enter the approval number of the fund project to be relied on according to the system requirements, and enter the specific application form filling interface after passing the qualification certification
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Both inter-organizational cooperative research projects and cooperative exchange projects implement fixed subsidy funding methods
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Applicants should carefully read the contents of the budget preparation requirements in the "Guidelines for National Natural Science Foundation Projects in 2022" and strictly follow the "National Natural Science Foundation Funding Project Fund Management Measures" and "Regarding Issues Concerning the Fund Management of National Natural Science Fund Projects" supplementary notice "(Choi Science and Education [2016] No.
19)," national Natural Science Foundation Committee meeting, the Ministry of Finance on further improving Science Foundation and funds management notice "(national Science fortune gold [2019] No.
31) and" country According to the requirements of the “Instructions for the Preparation of Fund Budget Statements for Natural Science Fund Projects," the “National Natural Science Fund Project Fund Budget Statements” should be carefully and truthfully compiled and reported
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Application materials requirements
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After the applicant completes the application form, he/she submits the electronic application form and attached materials online without submitting the paper application form
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After the project is approved, the paper signature and seal page of the application is bound to the end of the "Project Funding Plan" and submitted together
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The signed and sealed information should be consistent with the electronic application
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The attached materials include:
(1) A copy of the full text of the English application submitted by the U.
S.
partner to NSF;
(2) Cooperation agreement
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All applicants of the cooperative research project must reach an agreement on the content of cooperation and intellectual property rights, and sign a cooperation agreement (see the attachment for the model agreement)
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(3) Letter of intent for cooperation
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Applicants for cooperative exchange programs must provide a letter of intent for cooperation signed by the foreign applicants
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The English name of this collaborative research project filled in in the Chinese application form must be exactly the same as the English project name submitted by all collaborators
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In order to facilitate the identification by the project management department, applicants should use "BoCP: US-China:" "BoCP: US-China-Sao Paulo:" "BoCP: US-China-" when filling in the Chinese name of the cooperative research project or cooperative exchange project South Africa:" or "BoCP: US-China-Sao Paulo-South Africa:" and other prefixes
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In the process of preparing application materials and implementing the project, if the research content involves animal and plant resources, the project applicant or undertaker and the supporting unit must strictly abide by the relevant national regulations on the protection of animal and plant resources; if it involves human genetic resources Question, we must strictly abide by the relevant provisions of the "Regulations of the People's Republic of China on the Management of Human Genetic Resources" (State Order No.
717), and do a good job in the management of China's human genetic resources in international cooperation
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(2) Matters needing attention for the supporting unit
The supporting unit shall review the authenticity, completeness and compliance of the application materials submitted by the applicant of its own unit, as well as the relevance of the declared budget, policy compliance and economic rationality
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This project is included in the scope of paperless applications
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After the project is approved, the paper signature and seal page of the application is bound to the end of the "Project Funding Plan" and submitted together
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The signed and sealed information should be strictly consistent with the electronic application form
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For matters such as the submission of the unit's scientific research integrity commitment letter and project list, please refer to the "Announcement on the 2022 National Natural Science Foundation Project Application and Conclusion of Related Matters"
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(3) Project application acceptance
The acceptance period for the online application of the ISIS system is from January 20, 2022 to March 29, 2022 at 16:00.
The electronic version of the application and the attached materials should be submitted before the specified project application deadline
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Project contact
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Project contact (1) Chinese contacts: Bao Qinxing, Chen Jing
Phone: 010-62329053, 62326877
Email: baoqx@nsfc.
gov.
cn
Chinese applicants can contact the technical support of the ISIS system of our committee if they encounter technical problems in the process of filling out the application form online
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Phone: 010-62317474
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(2) Contact person in the US: Katharina Dittmar
Phone: +1 703 2927799
Email: kdittmar@nsf.
gov
Attachment: Instructions and template for writing cooperative research agreement
Cooperative research agreement writing instructions and templates Cooperative research agreement writing instructions and templates National Natural Science Fund Committee will
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November 2 2021
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