Researchers are welcome to participate in SHENG 4, the fourth funding opportunity for joint Polish and Chinese research teams launched by the National Science Centre (the NCN) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (the NSFC).
SHENG 4 aims to support research projects in selected research fields:
| NSFC Area | PANEL NCN |
|
Chemical Sciences
Engineering and Materials Sciences |
ST 4, Chemistry ST 5, Synthetic Chemistry and Materials Science ST 8, Production and processes engineering ST 11, Materials Engineering |
| Life Sciences |
NZ 1, Molecular biology, structural biology, biotechnology NZ 2, Molecular biology, structural biology, biotechnology NZ 3, Cellular and developmental biology NZ 4, Biology of tissues, organs and organisms NZ 5, Human and animal non-infectious diseases NZ 6, Human and animal immunology and infection NZ 7, Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health NZ 8, Evolutionary and environmental biology NZ 9, Fundamentals of applied life sciences and biotechnology |
| Health Sciences | HS 6 Human nature and human society |
Call announcement: 16 December 2024
Call deadline: 17 March 2025
Call results: November 2025
Project start date: January 2026
The NCN will adopt the terms of the call and publish them on its website in December 2024.
KEY TERMS OF SHENG 4:
- Proposals may be submitted to the call by the entities specified in Article 27 (1) of the Act on the National Science Centre of 30 April 2010 (consolidated text in Journal of Laws of 2023, item 153).
- The Polish Principal Investigator (PI) must be at least a PhD holder when submitting a proposal.
- Eligibility criteria for Chinese applicants submitting their proposals to the NSFC are available here: https://www.nsfc.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab1356/
- A list of Chinese entities eligible to apply for funding pursuant to the requirements of the NSFC is available here: http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/publish/portal0/tab475/info70247.htm
- State aid will be available to Polish applicants.
- Research project duration will be 36 months.
- Only basic research will be funded.
- Project budgets must include the cost eligibility criteria of the NCN and the NSFC, respectively.
APPLICATION PROCESS:
Funding proposals for Polish and Chinese research projects will be submitted to the OSF submission and NSFC’s submission system.
Polish applicants will submit their NCN proposals to the OSF submission system (htps://osf.opi.org.pl) pursuant to the terms set out in the call documents, together with joint Polish and Chinese proposals drafted in cooperation with the Chinese research team. NCN proposals and joint proposals must be identical.
Chinese applicants will submit a complete set of documents required by the NSFC via its electronic submission system.
Joint Polish and Chinese funding proposals submitted to the NCN and the NSFC must be identical. Joint Polish and Chinses funding proposals submitted to the NCN and NSFC containing significant differences may be rejected on the grounds of ineligibility.
Submission deadline: 17 March 2025
PROPOSAL EVALUATION PROCEDURE:
The eligibility check and merit-based evaluation of proposals submitted to SHENG will be carried out in parallel by the NCN and the NSFC. Polish and Chinese funding proposals will be evaluated by the NCN and the NSFC. Only proposals approved as eligible by both agencies will be subject to a merit-based evaluation.
At the NCN, proposals recommended for a merit-based evaluation will be evaluated by at least two external reviewers. The panels will consist of recognised researchers from the relevant disciplines who are familiar with the NCN decision-making procedures.
At the NSFC, proposals recommended for a merit-based evaluation will be evaluated by the expert panels and at least 5 external reviewers.
Only proposals positively reviewed by the two agencies will be recommended for funding.
NCN CONTACT DETAILS:
Coordinator for Life Sciences:
Coordinator for Physical Sciences and Engineering:
Coordinator for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences:
NSFC CONTACT DETAILS
- Jin Xu, tel.: