During the centralized acceptance period of NSFC project applications in 2023, NSFC (hereinafter referred to as NSFC) * * accepted a total of 304,333 project applications, and * * accepted 303,329 after preliminary examination and review. According to the Regulations of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Measures for the Administration of Related Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the opinions of experts, with the approval of the meeting of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, There are 2032 general projects1,75 key projects1,74 key international (regional) cooperative research projects, 22,879 youth science funds, 630 outstanding youth science funds, 25 outstanding youth science funds (Hong Kong and Macao), 3,538 national and regional science funds, and foreign scholars research fund projects/kloc-0. Other types of items received during centralized receipt are under approval.
According to statistics, in 2023, the number of projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation decreased, for example, general projects decreased by 15 1, and key projects decreased by 10.
Judging from the number of funded projects, the number of funded projects announced in 2023 reached 48,785, an increase of 468 compared with 2022, mainly due to the increase in the number of funded projects by the Youth Science Fund. However, the number of grants for some project categories has decreased, such as 15 1 for general projects and 10 for key projects.
In addition, in terms of capital contribution ratio, compared with 2022, the capital contribution ratio in 2023 decreased by about 0.42%, reaching 16.08%. The proportion in 2022 will be 16.5%. Judging from the figures released at present, the main reason is that the number of project applications has increased, and the number of project applications accepted has increased by 1.05 million, an increase of about 3.6%.
The Youth Science Fund supports young scientific and technological personnel to independently select topics and carry out basic research work within the scope of funding. The male applicants of this project should be under 35 years old and the female applicants should be under 40 years old on June 65438+1 October1day of the year of application. The funding period of this project is 3 years, with each funding of 300,000 yuan (if the funding period is 1 year, the funding is 1 10,000 yuan; If the funding period is 1 year, the funding will be 200,000 yuan. The Youth Science Fund supported 22,262 projects in 2022 and 22,879 projects in 2023, with an increase of 6 17 projects.
The general project is to support researchers engaged in basic research to independently select topics within the scope of funding, carry out innovative research, and promote the development of various disciplines. In 2022, the average funding intensity of the direct cost of this project was 53 1.4 million yuan/item, 20,472 items were funded by * * last year, and 2032 1.0 million items were funded by * * in 2023.
The key project is to support researchers engaged in basic research to carry out in-depth and systematic innovative research in view of the research direction or discipline growth point with good foundation, promote the development of disciplines and promote breakthroughs in some important fields or scientific frontiers. In 2022, the average funding intensity of the direct cost of this project was 2,697,500 yuan/item, 76 1 item last year and 75 1 item in 2023.