I. Summary of Amendments:

(I) In accordance with NSTC's letter dated April 10, 2016 (Science and Technology Commission Document No. 1150023735A), amending Points 11 and 13 of the "NSTC Subsidized Special Research Project Operation Guidelines," the following amendments have been made to the Basic Information Form (Form CM01) and the Gender Consideration Checklist (Form CM16) of the Special Research Project Application Form; Articles 15 and 18 of the Special Research Project Subsidy Contract; and Article 7 of the Special Research Project Implementation Agreement.

(II) To strengthen the management of integrative research projects involving human research, a "Description of Integrative Projects - Projects Involving Human Research, Human Trials, Human Embryos and Embryonic Stem Cell Research" (Form CM04B) has been added to the Special Research Project Application Form. The project principal investigator should uniformly explain the completeness of the ethics review and approval documents for each sub-project or sub-item.

(iii) To facilitate the application for the international cooperation projects under the bilateral agreements of the Association, the International Cooperation Research Project Information Form (Forms IM01~IM03) in the application form for the special research project has been revised.