Grants

1.  All principal investigators and co-investigators must be quota-based, full-time personnel of the University.

2. The three types of research projects are as follows:

• • General research projects: The application period is in November–December each year. Exact dates will be announced by the NSTC.
  • New personnel research projects: Projects led by a domestic/international teacher or researcher who has fewer than five years of teaching/research experience or who has graduated with a doctoral degree in the past five years are eligible. Applications for such projects should be made upon the initial appointment date or within three years of the conferral of the doctoral degree and will be reviewed on an ad hoc basis. Limit one project per person.

• • Call-for-proposal projects: Please refer to announcements made by the NSTC.

3. Virement under an same approved budget may be processed in accordance with applicable regulations based on actual needs.

4. All principal investigators and researchers must complete at least six hours of academic ethics training.

Applicants must be teaching/research staff or first-level administrators at the University (including principal investigators of NSTC-funded projects).

• • The three types of recipients are:

1. 1. Chair professors: Including Distinguished Chair Professors and Chair Professors (limited to international science and technology personnel)
   2. Visiting scholars (limited to international science and technology personnel)
   3. Doctoral level researchers: Exceptional domestic or international science and technology personnel holding a doctoral degree

• • Application time frame: Applications are reviewed as they are received, but should be submitted one month before the initial date of appointment.

• • Application method: Please apply online via the NSTC’s Academic Research and Development Service Portal.
    1. Chair professors and visiting personnel: Recommended by the University following an internal review and approval process

1. 1. Doctoral level researchers:
      1. Those participating in an NSTC project: Applications may be submitted together with the NSTC project application, or separately following approval of the NSTC project.
      2. Those participating in an NCHU self-funded project or in charge of technology management: Applications may be submitted separately to the NSTC.

• • Funding period:

1. 1. Chair professors: 1 month–1 year per term
   2. Visiting personnel: 3 months–1 year per term
   3. Doctoral level researchers: 3 months–1 year per term

• • Funding items: Teaching and research expenses, airline tickets, insurance premiums, salary subsidies, labor insurance, separation pension, and R&D fees.

• • Case conclusion and account settlement:
    1. Applicants shall upload a work report to the NSTC system within two months of the project’s conclusion.
    2. The University shall process the final account settlement with the NSTC within three months of the conclusion of the project.