深化国家自然科学基金国际合作的战略思考

国家自然科学基金作为我国支持基础研究国际合作的重要渠道,新时期应在国际科技合作中发挥引领作用。国家自然科学基金形成了“科学研究—人员交流—人才培养”的国际合作总体布局,合作总体布局不断完善,合作深度广度不断拓展,合作模式不断优化。新形势下,国家自然科学基金国际合作要适应全球化趋势和科研范式转变,构建全球化创新网络,拓展国际发展空间,以及应对全球挑战和参与人类命运共同体建设,因此国家自然科学基金国际合作模式与管理方式亟待创新。世界主要科技强国科学基金都建立了多层次、多样化的国际合作资助体系。国家自然科学基金应系统优化、全面升级、梯次推进,加强顶层设计和能力建设,加强重大任务和平台资助布局,拓展国际合作渠道,实施精细化国际科技合作战略。

Strategic Thinking on Deepening International Cooperation in National Natural Science Foundation of China

As an important channel for China to support international cooperation in basic research, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) should play a leading role in the international scientific and technological cooperation in the new era. This paper reviews the layout characteristics, achievements, and the new measures of the international cooperation projects of NSFC in the past decade, and summarizes the experiences of typical countries. It is found that the international cooperation in NSFC has formed a project layout with cooperative research, personnel exchange, and talent cultivation projects, providing important support for China''s engagement in global scientific and technological governance and integration into the global innovation network. In the complex and changeable international situation, NSFC has been actively and steadily expanding the international cooperation network of science and technology, systematically deepening the international cooperation, continuously optimizing the funding mode of foreign scholars, and is establishing a support framework for foreign scholars at different levels. In the new era, NSFC is facing new needs, to adapt to the trend of globalization and to engage in the construction of global innovation network, to open up new ways of international scientific and technological cooperation and to adapt to the new paradigm of scientific research, and to meet new global challenges and actively engage in the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, being endowed with the mission of planning and promoting the development of basic research in China from a global perspective so as to actively integrate into the global innovation network. At present, the international cooperation strategy in NSFC has not played enough role in China, and the layout level of international cooperation funding needs to be improved. Measures to serve the "Belt and Road Initiative" need to be improved, and the support for international scientific and technological talents needs to be improved. The review mechanism and support platform do not meet the needs of strategic international cooperation project management. In the new era, NSFC should take scientific value creation as the starting point and foothold, guide and support Chinese scientists to actively engage in the research on major issues related to human sustainable development, and expand and deepen multilateral cooperation. This study puts forward the policy suggestions that the development and management of international cooperation in NSFC should be systematically optimized and promoted, the toplevel design and capacity-building should be strengthened, the distribution of major tasks and platform funding should be upgraded, international cooperation channels should be expanded, and the international cooperation strategy should be refined.