Nature

• To support for research projects whose outcomes will attribute significant long-term benefits and impacts on technology advances, service provision quality and system performance of the railway transport in general.
  
  
• To support exploratory and up-stream research projects and develop forward looking innovative ideas and insightful conjectures.

Selected Research Themes

• Railway System & Operation Resilience
• Human Factors in Railway Transport and Services

• The Principal Investigator (PI) must be full-time academic staff member(s) of one of the UGC-funded Universities in Hong Kong, with the remuneration wholly funded by the University.
  
  
• The Co-Investigators (Co-Is) should be full-time academic staff members at Universities or researchers at Research Institutes and Centers. Each application should have no more than three Co-Is.

Funding Amount per Project

HK$300,000 – HK$1,500,000

Project Duration

12 - 36 months

Remarks

• Please read carefully the Overview and Guidance Notes BEFORE preparing the application.

• Please visit the MTR Research Funding (MRF) Scheme website for more details. 

• Intellectual property rights ownership would be negotiated between the University and the Academy, according to the nature of the expected outcomes.