FAQs on "Beikun Youth Scientist Award"

1. What are the requirements for applicants’ subject areas?
The awards are aimed at the future and attach importance to potential, and promote the high-end, intelligent and green development of manufacturing. They involve scientific and technological innovation in high-end chemical engineering, new materials, new energy, biomedicine, high-end equipment manufacturing, artificial intelligence and other fields. They focus on funding disciplines such as chemistry, chemical engineering and technology, materials science and engineering, energy power, bioengineering, biology and medicine, mechanical engineering, electronic science and technology, artificial intelligence and other disciplines and related interdisciplinary disciplines.

2. What are the restrictions on declaration?
Young scientific and technological workers working full-time in mainland China and Hong Kong and Macao have the nationality of the People's Republic of China and are generally not over 45 years old, and women can relax until 48 years old.


3. What are the declaration channels?
1. Personal application
Log in to the "Beikun Youth Scientist Award" application official website http://www.csiirc.com and enter the "Award Application" section to apply.
2. Expert nominations
will be determined by the management committee of the "Beikun Youth Scientist Award", and each expert can only nominate one candidate per year.
For details, please refer to the application guide.

4. How to determine the nomination expert? How many people can be nominated each year?
The list of nominated experts will be determined by the Management Committee of the "Beikun Youth Scientist Award". Each expert can only nominate one candidate per year, and most of them will be invalid.

5. How long is the reward cycle?
Rewards are awarded once a year.

6. What are the amount of funding and the number of funding personnel?
The total reward is 10 million yuan per year, no more than 5 people per year.

7. What are the criteria for evaluation?
The review experts make comprehensive judgments based on the value of the candidate's scientific research results and future scientific research plans.

8. What is the review process?
The review process includes preliminary and final review. The initial review is conducted by experts in similar fields through online review, and the final review is produced by candidate defense and voting by the review committee.

9. Can applicants who have not won the award this year apply for the following year?
You can apply, you only need to meet the application conditions.

10. Do the awards focus more on existing achievements or future research plans?
The awards not only focus on existing scientific research achievements, but also on future research plans.

11. How to ensure fairness of awards?
1. This award has established a management committee, an evaluation committee and a supervision committee to ensure the objectivity and fairness of the "Beikun Youth Scientist Award".
2. The review experts must disclose the interest relationship with the review subject to the award secretariat, including but not limited to teachers and students, relatives, the same research team, business cooperation, competition, etc., and avoid it during the review process.

12. How to protect the applicant’s intellectual property rights?
All personnel participating in the award work have a high obligation to keep all information involved in the award declaration in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. The declaration system can stamp the application and review materials with watermarks, and the applicant should pay attention to avoid uploading materials involving confidential information.

13. Can the applicant check the review progress or receive feedback from the judges?
After the applicant's materials have passed the formal review, preliminary review and final review, they can log in to the application system to view the review results or receive an email notification.

14. What is the time for the public announcement of the review results?
After the review is completed, information on the name, unit and field of the proposed winner will be announced, and the public announcement period is 5 working days.

15. What obligations should the winners perform?
1. Attend the necessary "Beikun Youth Scientist Award" related activities;
2. During the period of funding, submit a scientific research progress report to the Management Committee as required.