The National Research Foundation, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding in November 2015 to explore collaboration through joint grant calls.
The second joint call addressed two topics of mutual interest, i.e. environmental science and quantum technologies. The selected projects from the second call are listed below.
NRF-NSFC Joint Grant Call (Environmental Science)
| No | Project Title | Principal Investigators |
| 1 | Synergistic Degradation of Highly Stable Halogen-Organocompounds with Low-Concentration by Adsorption- Thermophotocatalysis for Cleaning Surface Water | Chen Wei, National University of Singapore |
| 2 | Fundamental Study on the Sooting Characteristics of Liquid Fuels with Different Molecular Structures | Yang Wenming, National University of Singapore |
| 3 | Integrative Systematics on Apoidea in China and adjacent countries in Southeast Asia | John Stoskopf Ascher, National University of Singapore |
| 4 | Quantifying Asian monsoon changes during the Late Quaternary by using triple oxygen isotopes in speleothems | Wang Xianfeng, Nanyang Technological University |
| 5 | Manipulating Interfacial Process of Extracellular Electron Transfer in Bioelectrochemical Systems for "Wastewater Energy Nexus" | Chen Xiaodong, Nanyang Technological University |
NRF-NSFC Joint Grant Call (Quantum Technologies)
| No | Project Title | Principal Investigators |
| 1 | Realization of Quantum Spin Hall Effects and Devices Based on Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators | Andrew Wee, National University of Singapore |
| 2 | 3D Photonic Waveguide Array for Post-Quantum Cryptography with Quantum Walk | Liu Ai-Qun, Nanyang Technological University |
| 3 | Room Temperature Strong Coupling of Quantum System to Nanocavity for Quantum Information Processing | Jason Png, Agency for Science, Technology and Research |
