BEIJING, April 2 (Xinhua) — The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) launched guidelines for the Sustainable Development International Cooperation Program (SDIC) in 2026, which includes a number of international companion organizations and covers areas akin to life and well being, inexperienced assets, and local weather change.
According to the guidelines issued on Wednesday, this 12 months’s SDIC will focus on key challenges in international sustainable improvement, combining widespread challenges with international sci-tech frontiers. It will present joint funding with international companion organizations in fields together with life and well being sciences, inexperienced useful resource improvement, biodiversity, local weather change, agricultural and meals sciences, and marine sciences.
The guidelines embody organizational partnership, cooperation, and strategic analysis. The first batch of international companion organizations contains the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) of Brazil, the State Research Agency (AEI) of Spain, the Mongolian Foundation for Science and Technology (MFST), and the Thailand Science Research and Innovation (TSRI).
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) are additionally within the first batch of companion organizations.
The guidelines emphasize that undertaking proposals ought to spotlight the cultivation of younger expertise and the constructing of international cooperation networks, notably multilateral cooperation. They additionally encourage analysis groups from completely different disciplinary fields to submit joint purposes.
The SDIC was collectively launched by the NSFC and international organizations and analysis funding businesses from varied international locations. It goals to conduct scientific analysis addressing international challenges, promote bilateral and multilateral international exchanges and cooperation, and broaden the scope of international collaboration. ■