Overseas UYC | Invite Talents from Home and Abroad to Apply for the UYC (Overseas) Programme
Shandong University
Shandong University, or SDU – under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education – is a key comprehensive university with a long and honorable history, a broad variety of disciplines, strong academic strength, and distinctive characteristics, which has had a great influence both at home and abroad. Shandong University has developed by leaps and bounds in recent years. SDU boasts 26 State-level research platforms, four key social science research bases approved by the Ministry of Education, 51 ministerial-level platforms, and more than 150 provincial key laboratories and provincial engineering technology research centers. At present, 20 subjects have been listed in the top one percent of subjects in the Essential Science Indicators (ESI), an index showing the competitiveness of a subject published by the Institute for Scientific Information. In addition, five of the university’s subjects – chemistry, engineering, material sciences, clinical medicine, pharmacology, and toxicology – were listed in the top 1‰ in the ESI rankings.
School of Management
Through the tireless efforts of generations of faculty and students, the School of Management has established a complete school system, an excellent faculty, first-class teaching quality, and remarkable research achievements. Currently, the School includes 8 departments (Strategy and Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Organizational Management, Marketing, Corporate Finance, Accounting, Culture and Tourism, Project Management and Industrial Engineering, Information System and Supply Chain Management), as well as high-level research institutions like Shandong Institute of Talent Development Strategy, Shandong University Corporate Governance Research Center, and Shandong University Tourism Industry Research Institute, forming a teaching system for interdisciplinary talents that integrates bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.
Program Positioning
The Science Fund Program for Distinguished Young Scholars (Overseas) aims to attract and encourage outstanding young scholars from overseas (including non-Chinese foreign talents) who have made achievements in natural science, engineering, and technology to return to China and carry out innovative research in their own choice of research direction, promote the rapid growth of young scientific and technological talents, cultivate a number of outstanding academic backbones who are expected to reach the frontier of science and technology in the world and contribute to building national strength in science and technology.
Remuneration and Support
1. Competitive salary: basic annual pay of 0.75 million RMB, and uncapped comprehensive income are available.
2. Funds for research development: about 3 to 7 million RMB, including funding from the national government.
3. Decent working and living conditions: 2.5 million RMB (tax-free) is given for your family settling. Another 0.25 million RMB can be declared as a subsidy for postdoctoral students who work in Jinan and Qingdao.
4. Other supporting conditions: for the first three years of the first employment period, a doctoral student indicator will be guaranteed; enough postdoctoral indicators will be provided according to the needs of team building, with no less than 1 key funded postdoctoral indicator during the first employment period; the talent apartment is provided for free during the first employment period.
Application Qualifications
Applicants of the Science Fund Program for Distinguished Young Scholars (Overseas) should meet the following conditions:
(1) Abide by the laws and regulations of the People’s Republic of China, have good scientific ethics, and consciously practice the spirit of scientists in the new era;
(2) Have a date of birth after January 1, 1984;
(3) Have a doctorate degree;
(4) The research direction is mainly Management, Economy, etc. ;
(5) Before April 15, 2023, the applicant should have obtained a formal teaching or research position in an overseas university, research institution, or corporate research and development institution, and have more than 36 months of continuous work experience; for those who have obtained a doctorate degree overseas and have particularly outstanding performance, the limitation of work experience may be appropriately relaxed;
(6) The applicant shall have obtained the achievement of research or technology and other achievements recognized by peer experts, and have the development potential of becoming an academic leader or outstanding talent in a related field;
(7) The applicant has not yet returned to work in China (to China) on a full-time basis or returned (came) to work in China after Jan, 1, 2022. The applicant must resign from the overseas work or have no work overseas after being notified of the grant of funding and return (come) to work in China full-time for at least 3 years.
Requirements for limited programs
(1) The Science Fund Program for Distinguished Young Scholars (Overseas) implements the requirements of limited programs of the Science Fund Program for Distinguished Young Scholars in the National Natural Science Fund Guide to Programs 2021.
(2) Those who applied for or are undertaking the Science Fund Program for Distinguished Young Scholars in the current year are not allowed to apply for the Science Fund Program for Distinguished Young Scholars (Overseas).
(Note: The above conditions are based on the guidelines of NSFC Excellent Young Scholars Fund (Overseas) in 2023, the specific qualifications shall be subject to NSFC’s guidelines for the program issued in 2024.）
Contact Us
Ms.Xu Hui
Ms.Sun Mengqi
Tel: +86-531-88364335
Fax: +86-531-88564335
B534, Zhixin Building,
Office for Personnel Affairs
School of Management, Shandong University,
Jinan, 250100, China
We invite talents from home and abroad to apply for the UYC (Overseas) programme based on the School of Management of Shandong University!
