Two projects have been selected for the Cultural Affairs Bureau Academic Research Grants supported by the Macao Special Administrative Region. The grants are aimed at supporting academic research projects in the Humanities that make a significant original contribution to the understanding of Macao, and of Macao's relationship with China and other countries. The grant regulations provide a flexible scheme for application and for the payment of grants. Applications may be submitted at any time throughout the year. The Evaluation Panel meets twice annually and applicants are informed of the Panel's decision in March or August, depending on when the application is received. The year-round application scheme allows a convenient and prompt application procedure. This semester, the following projects were chosen out of the applications received between June 1, 2009 and November 30, 2009:
Chen Wei Ming will focus on “City Management of Modern Macao (1849 - 1911). Chen received his Ph.D. from the University of Hong Kong’s School of Chinese. He is now Dean of the College of Liberal Arts in Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, and a professor at the university's College of History. Chan Yu will conduct research on “Praya Grande Avenue: Past, Present and Future”. She obtained her PhD. in Urban History at the National University of Singapore and is now an associate professor of Architectural Department at the university’s School of Design and Environment.
Grantees must submit an original monograph of 120,000 words minimum and the Cultural Affairs Bureau reserves the exclusive right to publish all or part of the grantee's original monograph, for example, in the Bureau’s publication Review of Culture. For more information on the Cultural Affairs Bureau Academic Research Grants, please visit the Cultural Affairs Bureau’s website: www.icm.gov.mo.
