National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan

Funds Taiwan science, technology, research careers, and strategic innovation programs across universities and industry.

National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan is the cabinet-level statutory agency that funds academic research, science and technology development, and the national science parks. It reports to the Executive Yuan and was reorganized on 26 July 2022 from the Ministry of Science and Technology, which itself succeeded the National Science Council that operated from 1959 to 2014.

NSTC funds general research project grants, outstanding-researcher awards, Yushan fellowships and chair professorships, FITI innovation-to-market programs, and bilateral calls such as the NSERC-NSTC semiconductor and artificial-intelligence call. The record also links NSTC to the Taiwan-Germany research fellowship and shows a funding mix that spans project grants, fellowships, awards, and international cooperation, with the listed NSERC call capped at 225,000 TWD and the German fellowship paying 85,000 NTD a month. Its scope reaches science parks, National Applied Research Laboratories, the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, and the Taiwan Space Agency.

NSTC is built to connect research policy with the university system and international peers. It accepts proposals in English and Mandarin, runs recurring funding and awards pages, and uses its science-park and institute network to keep basic research, talent support, and translational work under one policy roof. That makes it the main national route for researchers who need a public funder that can handle both domestic grants and cross-border research ties.