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Questions Related to Subsidy |
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Questions Related to Patent Application and Intellectual Property Right |
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Other Questions |
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Questions Related to Application |
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What is the language requirement for writing the application? |
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Either of Chinese, Portuguese or English. |
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If the individual applicant is not a Macao citizen, can the applicant apply for the funding? |
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According to paragraph 5 of article 2 of “Regulation of Fund Granting”, any researcher, who holds proper legal document working in research and development in Macao, can initiate the application. |
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“Regulation of Fund Granting” requires the applicant to obtain “Reference letter or recommendation letter issued by prestigious entity in the field of science, technology and innovation development”. Can application still be made if without obtaining such reference or recommendation? |
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It is necessary to provide reference or recommendation letter, which can be obtained from academic society, scientific research organization, related professionals, experts or academia teaching in local or overseas educational institute. |
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Can application for subsidies for the same project be made to another local and (or) overseas institution? |
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Yes (except local public institution). But it must be stated in the application whether subsidies from other institutions are applied. This will be taken into consideration in the FDCT’s approval process.
At the same time, according to article 15 of “Regulation of Fund Granting”, expenses which can be subsidized and if they are actually subsidized by FDCT, cannot be subject to subsidies from any other public funding scheme. |
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Can the applicant make application to FDCT for more than one project? What are the rules? |
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Yes. Application for each project should be made according to article 6 of “Regulation of Fund Granting”.
In general, FDCT would suggest any member of the research team should not participate in more than two projects. |
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Questions Related to Subsidy |
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How will subsidies be distributed? |
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According to specific project, payments are made in a lump sum or by a number of installments. Payment terms of subsidies will be included in the approval document. |
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After an application is approved, how will it define the starting date of research? |
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The day, on which the applicant receives the first cheque, will be regarded as the beginning of the subsidized project, and the time for submission of annual or final report will be calculated from that date on.
If research of an approved project has started before the first payment date, the subsidized receipts concerned will be backdated to the application date. |
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Are there any specific requirements for the contents of the annual report and final report? |
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According to article 13 of “Regulation of Fund Granting”, these reports are consisted of two parts. The first part is about actual progress of activities, and the second part is reporting on financial implementation. |
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Is it necessary to submit original receipts when submit annual or final report? |
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Original receipts are required. In case copies are presented, the original receipts must be provided for verification by FDCT. |
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If the beneficiary entity is not granted with the whole amount of subsidies, is it possible to reduce the research content proportionally? |
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FDCT provides money in form of subsidy. The beneficiary entity may not be granted the whole amount applied. The approved amount intends to function as a subsidy. The beneficiary entity should also be responsible for part of the research budget.
Besides, the beneficiary entity must initiate the research project according to the proposal submitted. When there is any amendment, it must be agreed by FDCT. (Except when the amendment is asked by FDCT.) |
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Questions Related to Patent Application and Intellectual Property Right |
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Can subsidies be applied to FDCT for annual fee and renewal fee related to patent application? |
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FDCT will subsidize the applicant making patent application to local and overseas institutions, but annual fee and renewal fee are not included in the scope of subsidies for patent application. |
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Are such expenses acceptable for subsidy application to FDCT if patent has successfully been granted? |
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No, not acceptable.
Subsidy application for such expenses to FDCT should be made before or during the process of making patent application to the patent granting institution. |
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Will FDCT assist the applicant in the administrative procedure of applying for patent? |
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The applicant should make the application by itself. |
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For the result of a research project, to whom does it belong? |
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The intellectual property right of the result of a subsidized project belongs to the applicant (except under special circumstances).
Besides, the result of a subsidized project should clearly specify as funded by Science and Technology Development Fund of Macao SAR. |
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Other Questions |
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Does FDCT choose any research directions as more important for subsidy purpose? |
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Not at this stage. But it does not exclude the possibility of making related guidelines in the future after gradual evaluation. |
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Is it FDCT’s policy to grant more subsidies to fundamental research or applied research? |
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FDCT places same importance to fundamental research as well as applied research. |
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For a subsidized project by FDCT, will information be publicized during the process of research or after obtaining result from the research? |
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FDCT will not publicize a subsidized project, which has not got any result. |
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What are the problems commonly come across in preparing the proposal? |
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1. The objective of research is not clear.
2. The scope of research is too wide, without focus.
3. The research project lacks scientific principles, or lacks sufficient scientific research.
4. The research is not innovative, or does not have specific research content or direction.
5. Explanation on budgeted expenses is not detailed enough.
6. There is no sufficient identity information on the applicant, principal investigator and other members of the team.
7. There is no detailed explanation on division of work among research team members. |
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What are the matters to which the research team members should pay special attention? |
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1. It must clearly describe the principal investigator and other members on their personal information, research location, work time and division of work. Priority will be given to projects with research undertaken in Macao.
2. Describe in detail the principal investigator and other members on their academic background, experience in research work, recently published related articles or books, and academic awards obtained.
3. The principal investigator must station in Macao to conduct research work, and he must be able to provide legal document allowing him to work in Macao.
4. If there are other team members who are non-residents but engaged in research work in Macao, they must be able to provide legal document allowing them to work in Macao.
5. FDCT gives priority to team members who are Macao residents. |
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