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FoSE achieves success in applications to municipal grants


The 2022 results for the Ningbo Major Science and Technology Programme, the Ningbo Soft Science Programme, and the Ningbo Commonweal Programme have now been announced by the Ningbo Science and Technology Bureau, and colleagues in the Faculty of Science and Engineering colleagues have been successful in various municipal level funding applications including 11 projects in the Ningbo Major S&T Programme, one project in the Ningbo Soft Science Programme, and three projects in the Ningbo Commonweal Programme.

The number of approved projects in the Ningbo Major Science and Technology Programme has doubled in number since last year. The approved projects cover a wide range of UNNC research areas including green chemistry, healthcare, digital port, carbon peak and neutrality, high performance motors and modern agriculture.

Each of the 11 projects funded within the Municipal Major Science and Technology programme are university-industry/university-university collaboration projects. Centring on Ningbo’s ‘246’ industrial cluster, the faculty focuses on intelligent manufacturing, green chemicals and energy, and life sciences and healthcare, introducing innovative scientific and technological resources and talents to power local development and industrial levelling up.

Funding Scheme Research Topic Leading Organisation Collaboration Organisations UNNC PI
Ningbo Major S&T Programme Study and demonstration of low carbon design and optimization of integrated energy systems in communities UNNC Ningbo Energy Group Co., Ltd, Ningbo Yongneng Integrated Energy Service, Ningbo University of Technology Zhiang Zhang
Ningbo Major S&T Programme Development of A Rotatable Cryogen-free Superconductive MRI System  XGY Ningbo Hwa-Mei Hospital, Yuyao People's Hospital Chengbo Wang
Ningbo Major S&T Programme Research and Clinical Application of Brain Tumor Multi-modality Explainable Artificial Intelligence System based on Medical Image and Digital Pathology  Ningbo Hwa-Mei Hospital / Ying Weng
Ningbo Major S&T Programme Integrated Petroleum-based Plastics and Agricultural Waste Recycling Technology for High-Value-added Product Development and Demonstration Project Ningbo Helong New Material Co., Ltd Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering，CAS  Philip Hall, Jason Li
Ningbo Major S&T Programme Development and demonstration of key technologies for the preparation of bio-based and eco-friendly high-end materials  Ningbo Changya New Material Technology Co., Ltd  Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering，CAS Guang Li
Ningbo Major S&T Programme Seafood transaction service platform based on satellite communication and key technologies for fishery big data center construction Ningbo Haishangxian Information Technology Co., Ltd. Nottingham (Ningbo Free Trade Zone) Blockchain Co., Ltd Jianfeng Ren
Ningbo Major S&T Programme Research and Industrialization of MW High Torque Permanent Magnet Direct Drive Electric Machines and Drives Yunsheng / Jing Li
Ningbo Major S&T Programme Key technology research based on digital enabled port operation efficiency improvement and safety guarantee CETC Ningbo Marine Electronics Research Institute Co., Ltd  / Zheng Lu
Ningbo Major S&T Programme Research and development of integrated drive and control chips for smart home appliances Loctek  Ningbo University, Xidian University Heng Yu
Ningbo Major S&T Programme Mix reality application platform for smart home Moorgen Intelligent Technology  Tsinghua University, HCI Future, CNITECH, Zhejiang Bocui Intelligent Technology Xu Sun
Ningbo Major S&T Programme Development and demonstration of key technologies for the preparation of bio-based and eco-friendly high-end materials Ningbo University  Ningbo Research Institute of Dalian University of Technology Yong Ren
Ningbo Soft Science Programme Research on carbon neutrality technology, strategic path and practice in European and American Countries Project UNNC   Yipei Chen, Tao Wu, Xiang Luo
Ningbo Commonweal Programme Early Prediction and Management of Ash Deposition in Power Stations for Safe, Sustainable and Carbo-Neutral Operation UNNC   Cheng Heng Pang, David Griffin, Svenja Hanson
Ningbo Commonweal Programme Production of artificial aggregate from excavated soil and alkali-activated slag UNNC   Bo Li， Yung-Tsang Chen, Weizhuo Shi
Ningbo Commonweal Programme Digital Humanities platform for Historic Ningbo UNNC   Jing Xie

 

To further enhance the research capabilities of the faculty, a series of internal funding schemes have been launched including the New Researcher Grant, a Faculty Conference Grant, and a Faculty ad-hoc project grant. Additionally, the faculty also supports project proposal preparation through organising information sessions and sharing workshops for major funding opportunities, internal/external pre-submission expert reviews and translation support for international staff. These funding programmes not only improve the capabilities of scientific research and the output of academic staff, but also promote their competitiveness for external research funding opportunities.

Professor Giampaolo Buticchi, Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange, expressed his big congratulations to staff members. 

As a faculty, we are a globally engaged and committed to making a difference in our city and region. We focus on developing our people’s potential and our research strategy aims to solving problems and improving lives,” said Professor Buticchi.

Published on 06 July 2022