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Sino Swiss Science & Technology Cooperation Program

The SSSTC program is a governmental framework between China and Switzerland. It aims to encourage and strengthen individual contacts by building a multi-level research cooperation between institutions, research groups as well as individuals.

The goals for the action phase of SSSTC are to:

Strengthen the academic ties between Switzerland and China through research and academic collaborations
Increase the visibility of Swiss universities and research institutions in China through faculty and student exchange
Encourage long term institutional cooperation between Swiss and Chinese education and research institutions

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Partners

Based on the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) which was signed by Switzerland and China for close S&T coopeartion, the SSSTC program has been enjoying the strong support of the governmental S&T agencies in both countries:

• In Switzerland: State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER)

• In China: Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

The SSSTC program is seeking for synergies and support of other Chinese and Swiss ministries, local Chinese S&T authorities, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) as well as Swiss and Chinese private industries.

Funding Instruments

Three funding instruments are designed to cover different need of Swiss and Chinese scientists for initiation or strengthening scientific contact:

• Faculty Exchange and Student Exchange (FE and SE) intended to provide opportunities for first and individual contact

• Institutional Partnership (IP) aims to tighten the links between two research institutes through a long term exchange program

• Joint Research Project (JRP) is designed to build up an in-depth scientific collaboration between scientists of the two countries, in 4 priority areas:

⇒ Life sciences /biotechnology

⇒ Environment/urban development and sustainability

⇒ Materials science

⇒ Medicinal science

Awarded Projects

So far, there have been several calls for proposal launched in Switzerland and China. Up to now, there have been 1 JRP, 2 IP and 3 FE/SE calls made. 25 out of 76 JRP, 18 out of 32 IP and 33 out of 53 FE/SE have been awarded the SSSTC grant.

July, 2010

For the last SSSTC call proposal for exchange grant ended on March 15, a record number of 80 applications were submitted. Due to the average high quality of these exchange projects ranging from natural sciences to social sciences, 48 of them were approved by the National Steering Committee. See details of the rewarded projects http://www.global.ethz.ch/stc/china/projects/EG-032010

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