Presenting on the 2020 annual directory of Mobility programme to be funded, which was recently released by the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion (SGC) of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the project “Metabolic mechanisms of acute and chronic Toxoplasma gondii infection” of Prof. Shen Bang from College of Animal Science and College of Veterinary Medicine of HZAU, will bring a grant of 1.5 million yuan (226,490 dollars) to him from Jan.1, 2021 to Dec. 31, 2023.
Mobility programme, the second Sino-German cooperation project that Shen has won from the SGC (first in 2019), serves to support postgraduate and doctoral students of HZAU to visit collaborative laboratories in Humboldt University of Berlin for promoting research cooperation and academic exchange as well as inviting faculty and students there to pay HZAU a return visit. Hitherto, two doctoral students from HZAU have spent over half a year in Humboldt University for academic exchange while the German co-professors offer a course taught in English for postgraduate HZAUers.
The SGC, a research-funding institution co-founded by NSFC and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), has always been providing funds to researchers since October 2000. Owing to diverse forms of funding programs and all-round services it offers to Chinese and German researchers in different career stages, exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and German scientists are facilitated, thus boosting cooperation and development in basic science of the two countries. The varied types of funding projects include pre-research visits, Sino-German bilateral seminars, Sino-German cooperative research groups, Sino-German short-term workshops, forums for young scientists, inviting German young researchers to visit China, Lindau project and its following-up funding, etc.
By the deadline in 2020, the SGC received a total of 356 joint applications for Mobility programme, among which 103 got approval from the Chairman of Sino-German Joint Committee based on the evaluation and consultations between the NSFC and DFG.
Translated by: Shang Meng
Supervised by: Wang Xiaoyan
Source: http://news.hzau.edu.cn/2020/1110/58729.shtml
