Objectives:

• Encourage effective collaboration between academic teams from both institutions to drive exceptional research.
• Expand research initiatives in areas of shared interest, emphasizing scale and focus.
• Foster engagement at all academic levels by ensuring diverse compositions within research teams.
• Provide international research trainining opportunities.
• Establish a robust foundation for ongoing research collaboration, securing external funding.
• Support the formation of long-term strategic research alliances between the two universities.
• Actively promote and faclitate academic exchanges for research visits between both institutions.
• Amplify the visibility and global impact collaborative research outputs through joint publications, presentations, and dissemination activities.
• Promote Co-supervision for Ph.D. candidates.

Funding information:

• Number of Projects: Funding is available for two projects per year.
• Matched areas: Pharmacy, Nursing, and Public
• Funding Amount: Each project will receive 45,000 RMB from each institution which is (approximately 200,000 Baht from the Mahidol side)
• Eligibility: Academics employed at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Mahidol University are eligible to apply..
• Project Structure: Each proposal must include a Chief Principal Investigator (PI) from both the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Mahidol University.
• Application Limit: A faculty member may serve as a Chief Principal Investigator on only one application per cycle. However, there is no limit to the number of applications a faculty member may join as a (co-investigator) team member.