The Ministry of Science and Technology of the PRC has initiated application for the National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 -- Major program of "Brain Science and Brain-Like Research" 2021. Details of application requirements are as follows:

1.  Funding fields

The program set 59 research tasks, please find more details of research contents as attached(Annex 1).

2.  Funding amount and duration

The average funding intensity will be 40 million RMB per project for 5 years.

※ For the program of Young Scientist, will fund a maximum of 5 million RMB per project.

3.  Requirements

A. Applicants shall meet the following qualifications:

(1) Born on or after January 1, 1961;

(2) Have senior academic title or PhD degree;

(3) Shall not less than six months per year for researching.
※For the program of Young Scientist：for the task of “ principles of brain cognition”, male applicants should be younger than 36 (born after January 1, 1986), female applicants should be younger than 39 (born after January 1, 1983); For other tasks, male applicants should be younger than 39 (born after January 1, 1983), female applicants should be younger than 41 (born after January 1, 1981).

B. Shall conduct collaborative research with researchers from research institutes, enterprises and universities within China or the listed Hong Kong and Macao research institutes (Annex 2);

C. Agreements（the agreement should include terms of division of tasks, ownership of intellectual property, etc.）shall be signed by the applicants and the whole collaborative institutions;

D. Applicant shall only apply for one project concurrently;

E. The total number of the national programs(except for NSFC programs) a researcher applies for (including as applicant and main participant) and undertakes (including as applicant and main participant) shall not exceed 2;

F. Shall upload employment proof for applicants from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign countries;

G. Proposal shall be written in Chinese;

H. Applicants shall read the application requirements(Annex 2)carefully for more specific requirements.

4.  Procedure of application

Applicants shall fill out application forms and upload supplementary documents online via the application system ( http://service.most.gov.cn ) , without submitting any hard copies.

※ For applicants who have no login ID, please send your name, gender, academic title, email address, telephone number, office phone, ID type, ID number to kevingao@cuhk.edu.cn by Oct. 16 2021 to open account.

5.  Deadline

Applicants shall submit application forms online by 12:00 on Nov. 6, 2021.

6. Contact information

Gao Shang       kevingao@cuhk.edu.cn