Eligibility
UWaterloo and CityUHK PI applicants must be full-time, regular tenure-track or tenured faculty members. At Waterloo, preference will be given to Faculty of Health faculty members or WIN faculty members. Adjunct and definite-term faculty members at Waterloo can be included as co-applicants. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will be considered as project trainees.
- Each proposal must have at least one PI from CityUHK and one from Waterloo.
- Projects must include trainee mobility.
- Applications must be related to health and life science technologies.
Funding Priorities
The Joint CityUHK–UW Seed Fund will focus on supporting international collaboration projects that support short-term academic visits, preliminary data collection or pilot studies, collaborative planning meetings, and joint workshops or seminars.
Applications must be related to health and life science technologies. The preferred themes include:
- Drug discovery, therapeutics, diagnosis, and theranostics
- Technology for aging
Eligible Costs
Funds from the Joint CityUHK–UW Seed Fund program may be used to cover the following:
- Travel costs of PI, Co-I(s), and trainees’ exchange visits to conduct collaborative research activities including short-term academic visits, collaborative planning meetings, and/or joint workshops or seminars
- Partial stipend for trainee(s) who are directly involved in the mobility component of the project;
- Associated research expenses for preliminary data collection or pilot studies, up to a maximum of HK $ 11,000/CAD $2,000 total per PI (e.g., lab user fees, consumables, small research related equipment, computer software).
Ineligible costs include faculty or staff salaries, indirect or overhead costs, equipment purchases (including computers and communication devices), facilities and basic utility fees, purchase, repair or shipping of office or lab equipment, insurance for equipment, and conference registration costs.
