TWAS Grants for Cooperation on Sustainability Science with CAS-TWAS Centres of Excellence 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 14, 2025

Applications are open for the TWAS Grants for Cooperation on Sustainability Science with CAS-TWAS Centres of Excellence 2025. Through the assist of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the CAS-TWAS Network for Sustainable Development, TWAS and CAS have established a brand new programme providing grants for collaborative tasks beneath the umbrella of the SDGs. This OPPORTUNITY is open to a number of TWAS Members or TWAS Young Affiliates to cooperate with one of the CAS-TWAS Centres of Excellence.

While the goal of the grant is to assist primarily in-individual collaborative tasks by analysis visits and/or scholar exchanges, as much as 30% of the whole funds can be utilized for gear and/or consumables. The grant may assist participation in a coaching workshop on the collaborating CAS-TWAS Centre of Excellence.

Grant

• Up to 6 grants in complete can be found, one per Centre of Excellence. Each collaborative grant will likely be RMB 600,000 in complete. Since the supported tasks will likely be two years in length, RMB 300,000 per 12 months will likely be supplied.

Eligibility

• Collaborative tasks ought to contain the CoE and a number of TWAS Members or TWAS Young Affiliates; nonetheless, the main scientist should not be primarily based in China.

Application

• TWAS Members or TWAS Young Affiliates within the grant are welcome to ship their CV and analysis proposal to the contact individual of the chosen CoE. Each CoE is accountable to pick essentially the most appropriate collaborating accomplice(s) and analysis proposal, after which each side will put together the application collectively.
• After venture approval, CAS will assign the funding to the CoE for the implementation of the analysis in collaboration with the paired TWAS scientist(s). The CoE will switch the suitable quantity, based on the accredited funds and work plan, to the collaborating accomplice(s).
• At the top of the 2-12 months venture, the CoE and its collaborating accomplice(s) will submit a ultimate report back to TWAS and CAS.
• CV and analysis proposal from potential candidates needs to be despatched to CoEs no later than June 14, 2025.

Complete purposes needs to be despatched to [email protected] and [email protected] no later than September 1, 2025.

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