Giant panda cubs frolic at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan province, Oct. 30, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) launched guidelines for the Sustainable Development International Cooperation Program (SDIC) in 2026, which entails a number of worldwide accomplice organizations and covers areas similar to life and well being, inexperienced sources, and local weather change.
According to the guidelines issued on Wednesday, this yr’s SDIC will focus on key challenges in world sustainable development, combining widespread challenges with world sci-tech frontiers. It will present joint funding with worldwide accomplice organizations in fields together with life and well being sciences, inexperienced useful resource development, biodiversity, local weather change, agricultural and meals sciences, and marine sciences.
The guidelines embody organizational partnership, cooperation, and strategic analysis. The first batch of worldwide accomplice 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 accomplice organizations.
The guidelines emphasize that challenge proposals ought to spotlight the cultivation of younger expertise and the constructing of worldwide cooperation networks, significantly multilateral cooperation. They additionally encourage analysis groups from totally different disciplinary fields to submit joint purposes.
The SDIC was collectively launched by the NSFC and worldwide organizations and analysis funding companies from varied international locations. It goals to conduct scientific analysis addressing world challenges, promote bilateral and multilateral worldwide exchanges and cooperation, and develop the scope of worldwide collaboration.