Deadline: 22 January 2013

Hong Kong applicants should meet fully the requirements for applying the RGC General Research Fund (GRF) (Please refer to paragraph 8(a) in Part II of Explanatory Notes for GRF Application Form "e;GRF2"e; which is uploaded on the RGC website:http://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/form/form.htm). A Principal Investigator of an on-going ANR/RGC JRS project is not allowed to submit a new application in the capacity of Principal Investigator unless both collaborative partners have submitted their completion reports of the last approved project to the RGC and the ANR before the application deadline. Nevertheless, he/she could participate in a new ANR/RGC JRS funding proposal in the capacity of Co-Investigator. French applicants should check with the ANR for their eligibility requirements.

The evaluation criteria include:

a. Relevance of the proposal to the call;
b. Technical and scientific quality of the proposal;
c. Quality of the project management and methodology;
d. Global impact of the proposal;
e. Quality of the consortium and good synergies between the partners;
f. Mobilisation of resources;
g. Added value to be expected from the French-Hong Kong research collaboration; and
h. Balanced scientific and financial contributions.