Joint Review Meeting of FDCT and NSFC Held in Tianjin
17/06/2019
        The 2019 joint research funding project review meeting of Macao Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) was held in Tianjin on June 11. FDCT Administrative Committee member Cheang Kun Wai, member of the Science and Technology Fund Administrative Committee, and the office manager of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Affairs of the NSFC Yang Junlin attended the meeting along with their local experts and made speeches respectively.
 
        During the meeting, representatives from FDCT reported about the applications of joint research funding by FDCT and NSFC in 2019, and the results of their evaluations. The application for the joint research funding ended on February 1 this year. FDCT and NSFC conducted a formal review of the applications received, and then ran through the list together, and 56 applications were accepted by both parties. After both parties reviewed the applications and checked the results of the review, there were a total of 23 projects proposed by both parties for consideration at the joint review meeting.
 
        Experts from FDCT attending the review meeting included: Chiang Kin Seng, Ieong Mei Kei, Wang Tinghuai, Wang Zhihua, Song Jingyan, Liu Lianggang, and the experts from NSFC included: Lin Haiqing, Hu Jinsong, Long Mian, Du Junping, Xiong Xiong, Yang Xiuwei. The twelve experts discussed the 23 projects one by one after listening to the introductions, and then voted for the projects. In the review meeting, a total of 11 projects were selected for joint funding. Since there are still following procedures to be finished by FDCT and NSFC, the funding results will be released by the two parties after completion of the relevant procedures.
 
        In January 2016, FDCT and NSFC signed the “NSFC-FDCT Technical Cooperation and Exchange Memorandum”, which served as a framework for carrying out the joint research funding scheme. The implementation of the joint research funding project will further encourage the cooperation and exchanges between Macao and Mainland China universities, and in basic research of natural sciences between research institutions and researchers from Macao and Mainland China, and further promote the prosperity and technological progress of the basic research in the natural sciences of the two regions.
 
        During the time in Tianjin, representatives of FDCT and NSFC also jointly examined the two undergoing research projects approved in 2017. The projects’ person in charge in Tianjin introduced the research content, the latest research progress, the distribution of work between them and the team in Macao, the cooperation methods, and the difficulties encountered. The representatives from both FDCT and NSFC believed that the two teams should further strengthen cooperation, especially by dispatching personnel to the other team’s laboratory for exchange of ideas, communications, and doing experiments, and should fully utilize the advantages of both parties to improve the quality of the project.

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