In accordance with the China-EU S&T Cooperation Agreement and the Joint Declaration on EU-China Innovation Cooperation Dialogue signed on September 20, 2012, the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology announced the 2013 round of the China-EU Science and Technology Cooperation Program.
The 2013 China-EU S&T Cooperation Program especially welcomes applications in the following areas:
Urbanisation/transportation, including: green energy building, waste recycling applications, comprehensive city management integrated technology, new energy vehicles etc.
Renewable energy resources, including: solar energy, wind energy, smart power grids and storage, increased energy efficiency etc.
Information and communication technology, including: next-generation mobile communication, cloud computing, internet of things,high-performance supercomputers, internet security etc.
Health, including: clinical medicine/translational medicine, biomedicine, ageing population etc.
Project participants should have a good cooperative relationship with their European partners, and have signed a cooperative agreement or letter of intent, containing separate clauses on intellectual property rights, or have signed a separate IPR agreement. The European side should consist of at least two cooperating institutions from at least two European Union Member States.
The budget for each project should not exceed 3 million RMB.
More details about this call can be found in Chinese on the MoST website.