NTU-UBx Joint Seed Funding

1. UBx Principal Investigator (PI) must be current full-time faculty, researcher or post-doc from the University of Bordeaux or one of its associated local partners.
2. NTU PI must be full-time or project-based faculty members/research fellow.
3. For NTU OIA funding, NTU PI is eligible to submit a maximum of 2 proposals with different partner university per year and receive funding with the same partner university at most twice.

• Funding Amount: Up to NTD 520,000 per selected proposal; up to 2 proposals per call
  • Funding will be shared equally by the universities and made payable to the respective faculty.
• Eligible Funding: Relevant international collaboration expenses, international travel by NTU faculty and students, and hosting foreign, non-NTU scholars (daily stipend in principle)
  • Eligible expenses considered to be international collaboration include (1) NTU faculty, researchers, and graduate students research abroad, (2) hosting international conferences, workshops, or symposiums in Taiwan, and (3) joint lecture or lecture series.
  • Eligible expenses considered to be daily stipend for hosting foreign, non-NTU scholars include (1) remuneration and living expenses for scholars’ work days in Taiwan and (2) domestic travel in Taiwan.
  • Funding does NOT cover: consumable supplies and equipment for research and personnel expenditure, including full-time or part-time assistants.

1. Application Period: Sep. 15 to Nov. 14, 2025
2. Application Materials: Project proposal form, NTU and UBx PIs CVs, and letter of support by relevant head of school/department. For details, please refer to “application” in the call for proposals.
3. Application Process: Applications should be jointly submitted by NTU and UBx faculty. All application material must be submitted via the following email addresses. For details, please refer to “application” in the call for proposals.
4. NTU OIA: ntuglobalea@ntu.edu.tw | UBx DRI: frederic.bertrand@u-bordeaux.fr

For details, please refer to “selection and result notification” in the call for proposals.