Second, the national natural science foundation project application conditions
1. Who can apply for the National Natural Science Foundation project?
The National Science Foundation is open to the whole country, mainly to scientific research institutions directly under the central government and key institutions of higher learning, and researchers engaged in basic research can apply through their units. Please read the application and management methods of various projects issued by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for the qualifications of various scientific fund projects.
In addition, each applicant's officially employed overseas researchers (including foreign researchers and researchers from Hong Kong, Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province Province) can apply for the National Natural Science Fund (excluding the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars) through the employing unit according to the relevant provisions of various project applications, provided that the employment period covers the implementation period of the application project and the working time in China is not less than 9 months each year. When submitting the application, the letter of appointment issued by the personnel department of the applicant and a copy of the relevant agreement shall be attached. The agreement shall include the terms that the contracting unit of the funded project is the employing unit and the relevant intellectual property rights belong to it. Foreign researchers and researchers from Hongkong, Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province Province shall attach a copy of the Expert Certificate for Settlement in China or the Foreign Expert Certificate issued by the relevant state departments.
2. Several problems that should be paid attention to in application.
The application methods, evaluation methods and management methods of general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation are the basis for guiding the application of general projects. Therefore, when applying, applicants must carefully read the above three methods, the National Natural Science Foundation Application Guide and the National Natural Science Foundation Project Guide issued in that year to understand the relevant situation of the application. Here, please pay special attention to the following questions:
The applicant must meet the corresponding requirements of the reported project category, and pay special attention to applying for the Youth Science Fund and the Regional Science Fund.
(2) Records of the applicant's execution and completion of fund projects.
Projects that the applicant has been supported by the Science Foundation and should be completed according to the regulations. Due to objective reasons, if the project cannot be completed as planned within the specified time limit and a summary report is submitted, the project leader cannot apply for a new project during the delayed execution of the project, and the main members of the project team are still included in the restricted items.
If the funded project fails to complete the project on schedule and fails to apply for extension within the prescribed time limit, it shall be deemed that the project is overdue without reason, and the project application of the project leader shall not be accepted within two years from the actual completion year of the project. Other members of the project team who fail to complete the project within the time limit are not restricted.
Anyone who practices fraud in the application for the Science Fund will be disqualified from applying for the current year and the following year once it is discovered and verified; Those with bad circumstances will be sent to informed criticism, and their applications will never be accepted.
③ Limited application.
The total number of general projects applied (including application for participation) and being undertaken (including participation) by personnel with senior professional and technical positions, and the projects funded by the director of the Committee with an implementation period of more than 1 year shall not exceed 2. The application (including participation application) is limited to 1 number of major or key projects (including participation commitment). Outstanding State Key Laboratory Project, Mathematics Tianyuan Fund Project and National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars are not within the limited scope. Intermediate title personnel only count the number of applications and commitments.
Three. Application procedure of National Natural Science Foundation of China
The applicant shall carefully read the Measures for the Application of Projects Related to the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guidelines for the Application of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guidelines for the Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of the Year, and the application notice to understand the relevant information in the application.
The applicant must fill in the Application for National Natural Science Foundation seriously and realistically in accordance with the prescribed format and requirements; In order to participate in the application and cooperative research solemnly, the main members of the project team should sign the application form in person, and no one else can sign it on their behalf; The partner's unit must be stamped with the official seal.
The scientific research management department of this unit is responsible for strictly reviewing the application items of this unit, ensuring the authenticity of the contents stated in the application, and checking the consistency between the contents filled in and the contents entered into the computer; The academic committee shall comprehensively review and sign opinions on the scientific significance, research characteristics and innovations, feasibility of research methods and technical routes of research projects; Units (including cooperative units) shall guarantee the supporting conditions and supervise the implementation of the project or the implementation after approval.
The applicant's unit shall submit an application form (in six copies) to the counterpart science department of China Science Foundation Committee according to the prescribed acceptance time; Submit to the information center the list of projects applied by the unit and the digital information of all application forms filed according to regulations.
According to the submitted disciplines reported by the applicants, the Ministry of Science will distribute the applications to all disciplines.
Four. About filling out the application form
The application of science fund is an important basis for evaluating the applicant's application for the project and deciding whether to grant funding. Applicants must fill in the form carefully. Pay attention to the requirements of the specification when filling in the contents of the application project, otherwise it will affect the evaluation results. Please read the instructions attached to the application form carefully. The National Natural Science Foundation of China issues the notice and explanation of the application every year, and informs the applicant in time. The contents of these documents generally need to be emphasized, or modified and supplemented according to the situation. Applicants who want to apply for the project should also take the initiative to pay attention to these documents.
Pay attention to the following questions when reporting.
(1) the basic procedures must be complete.
The applicant and the main members of the project team should personally sign the application form; The academic Committee of the applicant's unit signed an opinion, and the unit audited the applicant's qualification, and stamped the official seal in the column of "Audit Opinion and Guarantee of the Leader of the Applicant's Unit"; The unit where the cooperator works (refers to the unit where the main members of the project team are not in the same unit as the applicant) shall be stamped with the official seal. The main members of the project team are overseas, so they can't sign the application form. They should attach a letter agreeing to participate in the cooperative research.
(2) fill in the project category, the name and code of the declared discipline.
Applicants should fill in the project category accurately. If the declared discipline involves multiple disciplines, you can fill in two, first fill in the main discipline (that is, the submitted discipline). The code should be filled in according to the subject classification catalogue and code published by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
(3) projects with similar research contents within the same project team are only allowed to be submitted to one department and one discipline.
In order to avoid the problem of repeated declaration of projects with similar research contents in the same project team, the application form further clearly stipulates that projects with similar research contents in the same project team are only allowed to be submitted to one department and one discipline.
(4) The applicant can put forward a list of experts who are not suitable for evaluating this project, seal it in a letter, nail it on the cover of the original application, or send a letter to related disciplines for reference when the Ministry of Science selects peer reviewers. The Ministry of Science will be responsible for keeping this information confidential.
⑤ Description of the completion of the last completed project.
A special column is set up in the application form, which requires the applicant to give a detailed explanation on the completion of the previously closed projects supported by the Science Foundation. In recent years, various scientific departments have taken practical measures to strengthen the connection between the evaluation of newly applied projects and completed projects, and applicants must fill in the forms carefully and truthfully.
⑥ In the part of demonstration basis, the application requirements of basic research and applied basic research are different.
The Application Form has different arguments on the application requirements of basic research and applied basic research, that is, basic research "focuses on the international scientific development trend and discusses the scientific significance of the project"; Applied basic research "focuses on the frontier of science and discusses its application prospect around major scientific and technological problems in national economic and social development". Accordingly, in peer review opinions, the evaluation contents of basic research and applied basic research are also different, and applicants must pay attention to their emphasis when filling in.
⑦ Applicants without ID cards should fill in the ID card column.
For those applicants who have no ID cards, such as the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and the military system, the ID number column in the application form shall be filled in according to the following provisions (fill in the ID number column 15 digits):
1 ~ 6 people fill in the first 6 places of military officer's card, civilian cadre's card and other documents. If it is less than 6 digits, fill in 0 in the remaining spaces.
7 ~ 12 people fill in the date of birth, for example: 1959 April 12 birth means 5904 12.
13 ~ 15 88 for men/882 for women.
Fill in the "company code" of the new company.
If the applicant's unit is not listed in the "Unit Code" table of the Natural Science Foundation of China, the filling method of the unit code in the application form is "00" (6 digits) after the unit postal code. After receiving the computerized application information, the Information Center of the National Natural Science Foundation of China will number the application and notify the scientific research department of the unit.
If the company of the project participant is a foreign company, the code filling method is "99"+country code+"000". The country code can be found online.
Key considerations:
1. If you need to sign the application form, others may not sign it on your behalf at your own risk. The cooperative unit must affix its official seal.
2. When filling in the column of applied foundation, we should discuss "basic research" and "applied basic research", with different emphases.
3. If the members of the project team are not in the local area and can't sign their names on the application form, they should attach a personal letter agreeing to participate; If the cooperative unit cannot affix its seal, it shall attach the official seal of the cooperative unit agreeing to cooperate.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) How to apply for general projects?
1. What is surface engineering? What are the types of general funds?
The general projects of NSFC cover the widest research field and face the largest number of applicants, and are also the most basic and main types of projects funded by NSFC. The research projects funded each year account for more than 60% of the total funds of various funded projects. General projects include free application projects, youth science fund projects and regional science fund projects. Free application projects are the main part of general projects, accounting for more than 80% of the total number of general projects. Scientific researchers who meet the application conditions can refer to the Guidelines for the Application of the National Natural Science Foundation and the Guidelines for the Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation issued in the same year, freely choose topics, voluntarily set up research groups, and apply for funding from the National Science Foundation of China.
2. When will the general project accept the application?
Unless otherwise specified in the application notice of that year, it will be accepted once a year from February 15 to March 3 1 day.
3. How many years is the general project funded?
Generally, the general funded project is 3 years.
4. What is the funding intensity of general projects?
The average funding intensity of each general project increases year by year. In 2000, the average funding intensity reached 17 19000 yuan/item.
5. What are the basic qualifications that a general project applicant must possess?
First of all, the applicant (the person in charge of the application project) must be the actual host of the project; Second, you must have senior professional and technical positions (outstanding scientific researchers with intermediate professional and technical positions can also apply, but they must be recommended by two peer experts with senior professional and technical positions); Third, the number of applicants did not exceed the number of applicants. Fourth, the applicant did not undertake the project that was not completed as planned.
6. What is the Youth Science Fund?
The Youth Science Fund is specially established in general projects to promote the growth of young scientific and technological workers and outstanding young talents. Applicants must:
1, the applicant was under 35 years old on June 1 of that year.
2. The applicant has obtained a doctorate. Those who have not obtained a doctorate, but have intermediate or above professional and technical positions, can also apply, and need the recommendation of two peer experts with senior professional and technical positions.
3. It didn't get the support from this fund. That is, the grantee can only get the support of the Youth Science Fund once.
7. What is the regional science fund?
In general projects, regional science funds are specially set up to strengthen support for research work in remote areas, ethnic minority areas and other areas with weak scientific research foundation and promote the improvement of the scientific and technological level of the whole nation. These areas are: Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Tibet, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Jiangxi 10 provinces and autonomous regions and Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Some units are located in these areas, but ministries directly under the State Council, China Academy of Sciences or China People's Liberation Army cannot apply for such funds. In addition, part-time researchers in other areas of the unit can not apply as applicants, but can participate as collaborators.