The "24-character" working principle is to promote source innovation as the theme, to produce results and talents as the goal, and to carry out active and fruitful international cooperation, exchanges and funding. In 2007, the following areas will be strengthened:
1. Play a leading role through policy research, expert consultation, issuing guidelines and other measures, which is reflected in the organization and implementation of the project for my needs and use;
2. Broaden cooperation channels, increase investment, standardize examination and approval procedures, and further improve the environment and conditions for international (regional) cooperation in basic research. On the premise of strictly implementing the budget system, we should conscientiously do a good job in funding international (regional) cooperative research projects;
3. Plan and organize substantive and high-level international (regional) cooperative research projects at a higher level;
4. Give full play to the important role of the agreement channel, and pay attention to discovering and cultivating substantive cooperative research projects from the agreement projects;
5. Attach importance to attracting outstanding overseas scientists into domestic research teams, support domestic research units to attract outstanding foreign scientists to work in China for a long time, and promote the progress of domestic research in related fields and the cultivation of talents;
6. Further promote the international evaluation of funded projects, ensure a high starting point of research work, and promote the improvement of the science fund system.
The cooperation between the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the University of Macau achieved the first batch of results.
The cooperative relationship between the University of Macau and the National Natural Science Foundation of China was established in 1995. The main ways of cooperation are * * * to support and promote the cooperation between professors from the University of Macau and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua, Peking University and other mainland scientific research departments; The cooperation plan mainly focuses on the study of Macao's environment and urban development.
It is reported that the National Natural Science Foundation of China has decided to fund four new cooperative research projects. A new batch of cooperative research projects include the study of high organic pollution areas in the Pearl River Estuary and the study of vehicle exhaust pollution control strategies in Macao urban area. Officials from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the University of Macau discussed how to expand, develop and institutionalize the existing cooperative relationship. The National Natural Science Foundation also established the "Macao Outstanding Youth Cooperative Research Fund". The joint fund is a funding category established by the National Natural Science Foundation of China to promote the integration of Industry-University-Research, guide other government departments or industries to invest in areas or directions of common concern, support basic research and applied basic research, and solve basic scientific problems in practical application. It aims to accelerate the industrialization of basic research achievements, solve key scientific problems of industry demand, provide technical reserves for the industry, enhance the independent innovation ability of enterprises, and promote enterprises to become the main body of technological innovation.
Joint funds are divided into co-funded funds and co-funded projects. The former is to fund several projects in accordance with the guidelines every year for a certain period of time, while the latter is to jointly fund a specific project.
"Guangdong United Fund" and "Petrochemical United Fund" projects, regardless of non-comprehensive projects or key projects, are separately included in the limited search scope of the total number of projects applying for or undertaking natural science funds. In other words, the total number of general projects, key projects, major projects, major research projects, joint fund projects and other special projects managed by general projects or key projects cannot exceed three. Other co-funded projects are included in the scope of corresponding project types according to the provisions of this guide. Please be careful not to fail the preliminary examination because of exceeding the requirements.
Joint funds include "NSAF" joint fund, astronomy joint fund, steel joint research fund, Guangdong joint fund and petrochemical joint fund, as well as regional joint funding projects, railway joint funding projects and projects jointly funded with Microsoft Research Asia. Starting from 1999, the precautions for applying for the National Natural Science Foundation of China are clearly required in the notice. In order to better guide scientific and technical personnel to declare, the Guide to Declaring Projects and the Guide to Subjects have been published. Please read these two materials carefully. At the same time, NSFC put forward four new requirements for NSFC's funding principles, namely the new policy of 16.
1. Emphasize strengthening basic research: under the new form, the science fund should be repositioned, and the national basic research should be undertaken by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Foundation of China. According to statistics, from 65438 to 0998, the projects funded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences: basic research accounts for 5 1.6%, and applied basic research accounts for 4 1.4%. Generally, it is required to fund at least 50% of basic research projects, and the basic research requirements of the Fund Committee are more innovative, longer-term and more advanced.
2. Reorganization: the national fund has developed from a single funded project to a comprehensive funded project (such as general, youth, outstanding youth, national key laboratory, talent echelon, etc.). ). Starting from 1999, the structural adjustment will be tilted towards young people, and the adjustment of related disciplines will mainly fund research in priority areas. The priority areas of the Tenth Five-Year Plan have been gradually implemented, and the overall scope of the priority areas is smaller than that of the Ninth Five-Year Plan.
3. Highlight innovation: this is the core of fund support. Only when the ability to find and solve problems is stronger can innovation be produced. For example, Qian Yitai, who applied for project support from the Ministry of Chemical Industry, Xie, who is good at tackling key problems by the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and so on. Innovation needs a good environment and a system conducive to innovation, and innovation must have a group of scientific research managers and management systems to ensure innovation. For example, the annual expenditure of Harvard University in the United States is $654.38+0.5 billion, of which 330 people manage the fund and spend 28 million yuan on labor every year. Its management has been fully informationized.
4. Improve performance: The National Natural Science Foundation of China has begun to pay attention to the performance funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, and the newly applied projects should be linked to the performance of the projects undertaken by the applicant. Those that have not been completed will not be funded for the time being. Rules and regulations will be formulated. If a project has been completed but no papers have been published, the Fund Committee will not accept his new project application within two years.
On the other hand, starting from 1998, NSFC began to reward the collection and retrieval of academic papers published by fund-supported projects. The National Foundation of China has specially allocated a sum of money to reward the funded projects according to their performance, which is mainly assessed by the sum of seven indicators, such as the number of papers published, the level of journals, the situation of being included, and the frequency of being cited by others. 1998 * * * 3 1 item, with a maximum of 200,000 and a minimum of 50,000, that is, to fund a project. 65438-0999 was followed up, and the number of academic papers published in high-level journals and the number of citations of projects funded by the National Fund were given: 15, 10 and 50,000 yuan respectively. Applicants should pay attention to the following points:
1. The applicant shall carefully read the Regulations, the Guide, relevant project types and fund management methods, and write an application for projects of the National Natural Science Foundation (hereinafter referred to as the application) according to the requirements of writing the outline.
2. Add some requirements such as English abstract and English keyword filling in the 20 12 version of the application.
3.20 12 application, both offline and online:
(1) The types of projects using offline application writing methods include: general projects, key projects, youth science fund projects and regional science fund projects. The specific requirements are as follows:
Applicants should log on to the network information system of the Science Foundation of China (hereinafter referred to as "Islamic State" system) after 20 12 1 and download the 20 12 version of the application. Earlier versions of this application are not allowed. After completing the writing of the application, the applicant shall submit the electronic version of the application and the original signed paper application (including attachment materials) to the supporting unit. Applicants should ensure that the paper application is consistent with the electronic version.
(2) The types of projects that use online application writing methods include: major projects, major research projects, national basic science talent training fund projects, youth science fund-general project continuous funding projects, outstanding youth science fund projects, national outstanding youth science fund projects, innovative research group projects, overseas and Hong Kong and Macao scholars cooperative research fund projects, joint fund projects, special fund projects for basic research of scientific instruments, popular science projects, special fund projects for key academic journals, and special fund projects for Mathematics Tianyuan Youth Fund. The specific requirements are as follows:
The applicant obtains the user name and password from the supporting unit, logs into the "Islamic State" system, accurately selects the corresponding application project type (including sub-category description and comments), prepares the application form according to the relevant requirements and prompts, and electronically attaches the application form materials. Among them, the applicant for major international (regional) cooperative research projects should download the English application for major international (regional) cooperative research projects in the "Islamic State" system for offline writing after completing the online writing of the Chinese application according to the above requirements, and the English application together with the agreement between the two parties will be used as the attachment materials of the Chinese application.
After completing the application writing, the applicant submits the electronic application form and its electronic attachment materials online, downloads and prints the final PDF version of the application form, and submits the original signed paper application form to the supporting unit, without submitting paper attachment materials (except the original paper materials such as certification letter and recommendation letter).
Applicants should ensure that the paper application is consistent with the electronic version.