Funded research projects begin on January 1 of the following year. The start and end dates of the joint research project between the two lcoations must be the same. The conference/workshop will normally be carried out from July 1 to June 30 of the following year.
For each Conference Proposal, there should be one Hong Kong PI and one co-organizer from the Mainland. The Hong Kong PI is responsible for the overall coordination of the event while the Mainland co-organizer plans the main programme. The conference may comprise sessions where Mainland and local guest speakers present on-going research work, local postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate research students share their current work, and/or interested local parties attend hands-on sessions to acquire new techniques.
The six focus areas under the scheme include Information Technology, Life Science, New Materials Science, Marine and Environmental Science, Medicine, and Management Science. Applications outside of these areas can be submitted under "other areas".
