Application for the first round of Child Development Research Project for Youth Completed
In order to strengthen and improve the research of the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) in child development, and foster growth of young researchers, the Foundation has set up a Youth Project on Child Development Research. It serves our mandate to advance good governance and public policy to promote economic development and social progress. It focuses on improving the level of research on children's development, strengthening the output of research results, and expanding the impact of the foundation's children's projects; and mobilizing the creativity of the Foundation's young researchers.
Application is open to employees under the age of 40 from different departments, disciplines, and research fields of the Foundation. The research direction focuses on child nutrition, early child care, preschool education, quality improvement of compulsory education, education informatization, secondary vocational education, input and output of child development, governance mechanism of child development, and philanthropy of child development.
From September 15 to October 17, 2022, the Foundation opened application for the first round of the Child Development Research Project for Youth and received 10 groups of project applications. On October 27, 2022, the Foundation successfully held the evaluation meeting, Fang Jin, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of the Foundation, and Lu Mai, former Vice Chairman of the Foundation, made speeches. Du Zhixin, Deputy Director of the Institute of Child Development, presided over the meeting. Li Shi, Professor at Zhejiang University, Cai Jianhua, Senior Advisor of the Child Development Research Institute of CDRF, Wang Weidong, Deputy Director of the China Survey and Data Center of the Renmin University of China, and Liu Ailing, researcher at the Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention participated in the project evaluation. Each of the 10 research groups presented their research proposal and received questions from the experts, who scored and reviewed each group of topics in turn.
6 applications were approved after expert review. The young colleagues expressed that they had gained a lot and laid a good foundation for the next step of research.
