ANSO Co-funded Research Project

ANSO Co-funded Research Project

Funds bilateral research collaborations with Belt and Road participation and cross-border execution.

The ANSO Co-funded Research Project is a collaborative grant program administered through the Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO), an entity headquartered at and operationally hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing. The program funds joint research between a Chinese principal investigator based at a CAS institute and a partner principal investigator from one of approximately 70 ANSO member-state countries in the Belt and Road region. CAS is China's apex national research organization comprising over 100 institutes, and provides the primary funding source for ANSO programs. The co-funded research initiative covers natural sciences, engineering, and applied disciplines, with flexible thematic scope reflecting ANSO's broad membership spanning Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

Award budgets range from approximately 500,000 to 2,000,000 CNY over a project duration of two to three years, depending on the track selected. The program operates on a periodic call schedule; while characterized as rolling in catalog records, individual calls are issued with defined submission windows. Eligibility requires a joint consortium structure: the Chinese PI must hold an appointment at a CAS institute, and the international partner PI must be affiliated with an institution in an ANSO member state. Universities, research organizations, and nonprofit research entities may participate, and individual PIs may apply through their institutions.

Applicants approach the program through ANSO's Science Programme intake process, which is administered from CAS Beijing. Because ANSO is a separate legal entity from CAS but entirely hosted and co-funded by it, grants are cataloged under the CAS funder umbrella. Research teams should verify active call status and submission deadlines on the ANSO Science Programme website (anso.org.cn), as publication schedules for individual call rounds are not fixed to a single annual calendar date.