1. Currently a full-time NTU faculty member or research fellow on a regular payroll;
2. Born on or after Jan. 1, 1978.
3. Concurrently undertaking a NSTC Special Topic Research Project.
4. For a full-time faculty member or research fellow already implementing this project, with the original execution schedule until Dec. 31, 2024, or Dec. 31, 2025, no additional applications may be submitted.
5. A full-time NTU faculty member or research fellow on regular payroll may receive subsidies for at most one ORD-sanctioned research project, including the Excellence in Key Advantages Program (NTU Core Consortiums and Competitiveness Programs), Sprout Research Projects, and Jade Picking Project. In other words, those involved in more than one such project will receive subsidies for only one of them. Does not include the nature of matching grants, new faculty startup resources and seed projects for interdisciplinary research.

1. Duration of project planning and funding: Jan. 1, 2024, to Dec. 31, 2026, subject to the conclusions of the proposal's review.
2. Upload all project-related files to the ORD online project application system. Submit the application online to the ORD by the announced deadline, Fri, Sep. 15, 2023. No late applications will be accepted.

In accordance with the official letter No. 1100042067 dated June 24, 2021, in order to speed up the process, when relocation of project funding issued by ORD (accounting codes: L7, L8, L9, V) is in need, please submit the funding relocation application by electronic official documents. The examples of the electronic official document and the funding relocation application (no seal required at the bottom of the application form) are attached down below for reference.

List of Approved Research Projects (as of 2023)