To further encourage students to actively participate in international exchange, in June 2022 the university established the "Academic Launch" Scholarship on the basis of the former "Short-term Exchange Scholarship," to support students going abroad to participate in high-level academic conferences and conduct scientific research cooperation. For details, see the Measures of Shenzhen University for the Administration of Student Overseas Exchange and Study Scholarships (Revised) (No. [2022]172). In accordance with these measures, the application for this year's "Academic Launch" Scholarship is now commenced.

I. Academic Conference Category

This category of scholarship is used to support students going abroad to participate in high-level academic conferences. Students must have an academic paper or abstract written as first author or corresponding author (or with the supervisor as first author and the applicant as second author) accepted by an authoritative international academic conference in the relevant discipline held abroad, and the student must give an oral presentation or poster presentation at the conference. The applicant has personally paid the conference expenses and has not received funding from other institutions or programs.

Funding standards:

RMB 8,000 per person outside the Asian region; RMB 4,000 per person within the Asian region (including the Taiwan region); RMB 2,000 per person within Hong Kong and Macao.

Students who attend online conferences and meet the requirements may be funded for the registration (enrollment) fee. (Due to the pandemic, if participating in an online conference, the registration (enrollment) fee will be funded. Students should submit proof of payment of the conference registration (enrollment) fee.)

Students who are currently studying abroad during the conference or who have already received similar funding from the university (college) may not apply repeatedly.

II. Postgraduate Research Cooperation Category

This category of scholarship is used to support full-time doctoral students and combined master's-doctoral academic master's students to go abroad for scientific research cooperation.

Funding standards:

Students going abroad for academic exchange generally do so for 3 to 6 months. The funding scope is one round-trip economy-class international airfare and a living allowance. The living allowance standard is RMB 5,000 per month for doctoral students and RMB 3,500 per month for master's students. International airfare funding standards: RMB 8,000 per person outside the Asian region; RMB 4,000 per person within the Asian region (including the Taiwan region).

Funding requirements:

1. The applicant's average academic score reaches 85 or above, with strong foreign language communication ability: TOEFL PBT 550 or above, or IBT 80 or above, or IELTS 6.0 or above, or CET-6 500 or above. (If the applicant does not meet any of the above foreign language requirements, the cooperating supervisor must certify in writing that the applicant has the foreign language ability to carry out scientific research cooperation abroad);

2. The applicant shall have a foreign cooperating supervisor during the overseas exchange and cooperation period;

3. As of the date of application, the applicant has published one or more high-level papers in journals indexed by SCI, SSCI or A&HCI.

Number of funded places:

No more than 50 are funded university-wide each year. Students who have obtained state-sponsored study-abroad qualification or funding from the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education, students who have obtained full scholarship funding from the foreign party, or students who were already studying abroad before 2022 will not be repeatedly funded.

III. Application Procedures

Log in to https://szupu.szu.edu.cn/fa/project/81

Select the "2022 Shenzhen University Academic Launch Scholarship Program" and fill in the Shenzhen University Student Academic Launch Scholarship Application Form online (the program application platform does not support IE browser; please use the latest version of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari).

1) Materials list (conference category):

(1) Introduction to the conference or competition (conference brochure or poster) and schedule;

(2) Formal letter of invitation;

(3) Photos of the student attending the conference/competition; for online conferences, please attach a screenshot of the paper presentation;

(4) Summary of participation in the international academic conference/competition (500–600 words);

(5) For academic conference participation, attach a copy of the paper (the first page is sufficient);

(6) Provide proof of payment of the conference registration (enrollment) fee.

2) Materials list (postgraduate research cooperation category):

(1) Foreign language score certificate;

(2) Journal catalog of the published high-level paper and a copy of the paper (the first page is sufficient);

(3) Formal letter of invitation.

IV. Application Time and Other Matters

Projects funded in 2022 must all occur within the year, based on the 2022 calendar year.

Application deadline: December 21, 2022.

Special reminder: After the deadline, no further materials can be submitted, and incomplete materials will not be reviewed.

V. Scholarship Review

(1) The International Exchange and Cooperation Office organizes the establishment of a scholarship review committee.

(2) The review committee reviews and confirms the application materials according to the Measures of Shenzhen University for the Administration of Student Overseas Exchange Scholarships (Revised) and draws up the award list.

(3) The award list will be publicly announced university-wide for no fewer than 5 working days.

(4) After the announcement, the list is reported to the university for approval.

VI. The right to interpret these measures rests with the International Exchange and Cooperation Office (the Academic Launch Scholarship was formerly named the Short-term Academic Exchange Scholarship).

Consultation phone: 26534940, Teacher FAN.