Call for proposal for S&T project at institutional level 2018
ANNOUNCEMENT
Call for proposal for S&T project at institutional level 2018
In order to enhance its research capacity at international standard, to establish strong research groups and to contribute the S&T resources at high level, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi (USTH) is launching a call for proposal for S&T projects at institutional level for 2018 as follows:
1. Scope:
a. Main research topics of USTH:
- BIOTECHNOLOGIES : Agronomical, pharmacological, medical, food and non food,…;
- INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: Architecture, processing, simulation, modeling; linkage with biotechnologies, environment, energy topics,….;
- ENVIRONMENT: Oceanography, hydrology, water treatment, resources management (land, soil, water, minerals, …);
- ENERGY: Green energy, biomass, electric energy,...;
- ADVANCED MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES: Energy, environment, aerospace,...;
- SPACE: Remote sensing and Modelling of the Earth, Satellite Technologies, Astrophysics.
- Fundamental research;
- Prototype and/or applied research;
- Finalized products.
- Type 1: From 200.000.000 VND to 500.000.000 VND;
- Type 2: From 30.000.000 VND to 50.000.000 VND.
- The project ensures the feasibility in order to solve issues having scientific and practical values;
- The project ensures the efficiency for supporting for postgraduate training; high value research outcomes; practical application capacity to meet the target of social-economic development of Vietnam;
- The project has the participation/consulting/advise of Vietnamese and/or international senior researchers, experts at high level from USTH and/or out of USTH.
- Priorities will be given to:
+ Projects with outcomes strongly linked to social life and creating new technology products, interdisciplinary technology, transfer ability;
+ Project able to be continued as project at higher level such as NAFOSTED, VAST, Ministerial level, National level…;
+ Project exceeding the prescribed level of outcomes;
- PI and project members should have professional competence and research experiences at good level.
- For project type 1: Not to be PI of NAFOSTED project, VAST project, project at Ministerial level, National level or equivalent at the time of application.
- For project type 2:
7. Required outcomes:
7.1 For project type 1: The budget will be approved base on the commitment on the number and the quality of project’s outputs.
- Fundamental research projects: Commit to publish at least 01 ISI publication (*) or 01 international publication in equivalent journal (for ICT field only) (**): First author and/or Corresponding author;
- Prototype and finalized product: Commit to have an application product that respond at least to one of the following results:
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Patent ;
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Experiment activities; assessed technology;
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Results related to juridical protection (utility model, industrial design);
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Results related to recognized techniques aspects (experimental production, prototypes).
7.2 For project type 2: Commit to publish at least 01 publication in national journal of the list of VAST 1 or VAST2 (***) and/or international journal or internaltional journal and/or international proceedings that are not listed in SCI, SCI-E but have an ISSN, ISBN identification (****);
(*) List of qualified ISI publications, qualified international journal for reference: http://mjl.clarivate.com
(**) List of conferences & journals at high value (for ICT) for reference at http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks (CORE conferences (conference A and B have good international value) and/or at http://www.scimagojr.com (Scimago (journals in Q1 and Q2 are highly valued)).
(***) List of journal VAST1 (03 journals) including: (1) Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; (2) Vietnam Journal of Mathematics; (3) Acta Mathematica Vietnamica.
(or) List of journal VAST2 (09 journals) including: (1) Communications in Physics; (2) Vietnam Journal of Mechanics; (3) Tạp chí Tin học và điều khiển học – Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics; (4) Tạp chí Khoa học và Công nghệ - Journal of Science and Technology; (5) Tạp chí Hóa học – Journal of Chemistry; (6) Tạp chí Khoa học và Công nghệ Biển – Journal of Marine Science and Technology; (7) Tạp chí Công nghệ sinh học – Journal of Biotechnology; (8) Tạp chí Các khoa học về Trái đất – Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences; (9) Tạp chí Sinh học – Journal of Biology.
(****) List of qualified national journal in natural fields is for reference at http://www.nafosted.gov.vn/vi/archives/view/73QD-HDQL-NAFOSTED-33
8. Implementation time:
- For project type 1: ~ 02 years;
- For project type 2: ~ 01 year.
9.1. Attention:
- Proposal will be written in English, font Time News Romans, size 12 with number of page/total page number; with proposal cover.
- Application dossier (hard version and soft version in pdf file) including:
+ Proposal cover (Template N°01);
+ Full Proposal (Template N°02);
+ Curriculum Vitae in English (Template N°03) of PI and project members with original signature, commitment (Template N°04) with confirmation of their institution in Vietnamese (except USTH academic staff);
+ Provisional budget (Template N°05)
- The late submission after above deadline is not accepted.
9.2. Deadline:
- Application form: Before 18th January 2018 (via google form here)
- Submission dossier: Hard version (01 copy) will be submitted to DRITT before 17:00 PM,
10th February 2018 (Soft version will be sent via: dritt@usth.edu.vn).
- Evaluation time: February 2018.
- Contact person: Ms Le Tuyet Trinh - DRITT
Tel.: (+ 84-24) 37.91.85.20
Email: le-tuyet.trinh@usth.edu.vn
Hanoi, 12th January 2018
PP. Rector
Director of Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer
Radjesvarane Alexandre
(Signed)