South Africa’s National Research Foundation has issued two calls for collaborative research with China.
The calls come hot on the heels of the first meeting of science ministers from the BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—in South Africa last month.
The first call is a collaboration between the NRF and its counterpart, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). It will fund research on fungal microbiology and nuclear physics. Projects will be supported from October 2014 to September 2016 with maximum funding by the NRF of R600,000 over the three years.