Call for Proposals
SJTU-UCL Seed Fund Program 2025/26
- Thematic Areas
Proposals are welcome in all academic disciplines. Applications in the following areas are particularly encouraged:
- Sustainability and climate crisis
- Global health and wellbeing
- Life sciences
- Healthcare engineering
- Physics and astronomy
- Computing science and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Eligibility
The Principal Investigator (PI) must be a full-time faculty member of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).
Applications must be jointly submitted by a PI from SJTU and a collaborator from University College London (UCL).
Each SJTU PI may hold only one active seed fund project at a time. PI who is currently undertaking other Seed Fund projects (including Global Initiative Fund, Joint Seed Fund, Specialized Seed Fund, or Collaboration Inception Fund, etc.) is not eligible to apply as PI for this round.
Up to 8 projects will be funded in 2025.
Each selected project will receive RMB 50,000, primarily to support international travel costs (at least 90% of the total budget) incurred by the SJTU team. Up to 10% may be used for hiring temporary project assistants.
August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2026
Applications must be submitted via the UCL online application system. The UCL collaborator is responsible for completing and submitting the online application form.
Application link: https://form.jotform.com/geoucl/UCL-SJTU_SPF_25-26
All proposals must include the “UCL-SJTU SPF Application Form 2025-26” and be written in English.
Applications must be submitted online no later than 23:59 (UK time), June 13, 2025, which corresponds to 06:59 (Beijing time), June 14, 2025.
Late submissions will not be accepted.
Attachment 1: UCL-SJTU SPF_guidelines_2025-26.pdf
Attachment 2: UCL-SJTU SPF_application form_2025-26.docx
Contact persons: Xiuxing Yan, Kaifeng Huang
Phone: +86-21-34206752
Email: icae@sjtu.edu.cn