Global leader Grants

To provide focused support for the world-class level researchers to conduct in-depth studies for the development of novel scientific achievements and new technologies for the future. (aiming for global collaborations)

 *Eligible Individuals: University faculty (full-time/part-time) in the field of science and engineering and researchers at national/public/ government-funded/private research institute

 *Annual research fund budget: Around 800 million

 *Research period(maximum): 9 years (3+3+3)

Consolidator Grants

1. Type2 (Global Research Program): To provide systemic support for the outstanding researchers to develop to the global leader researchers and for their creative research to produce innovative research outcomes (aiming for global collaborations)

2. Type1: To support individual research with high creativity by cultivating capabilities for the outstanding basic research and by providing the platform for the individual researchers to develop leading researchers.

3. Creative Research program: To support small scale research by providing the outstanding researchers with necessarily sufficient support

4. Merit Rearch Program - type1,type2 Extended supports for the outstanding researchers with excellent outcomes to advance the research outcomes in the previous programs and to produce innovative research outcomes from this program

 *Eligible Individuals: : 

University faculty (full-time/part-time) in the field of science and engineering and researchers at national/public/ government-funded/private research institutes

 *Annual research fund budget: 

 1,2. Type2 (Global Research Program),Type1: 1 to 3 years 4 years (3+1) / 5 years (3+2)

 3. Creative Research program: 1 to 3 years

 4. Merit Rearch Program - type1,type2: 3 years

 *Research period(maximum): 

 1. Type2 (Global Research Program): Around 400 million won per year

 2. Type1: Around 250 million won per year (Up to 0.5 billion won in additional support for global collaboration)

 3. Creative Research program: Around 70 million won per year

 4. Merit Rearch Program - type1,type2: 

 (Type2) Around 400 million won per year

 (Type 1) Around 250 million won per year

Hanwoomul-Phagi Basic Research

To support outstanding young researchers to continuously conduct challenging research in one area for a long period of time to create world-class research outcomes.

 *Eligible Individuals: Full-time/part-time university professors in the science and engineering field and researchers at national/public/ government-funded/private research institutions who have received a doctorate within 15 years

 *Annual research fund budget: 10 years(5+5)

 *Research period(maximum): Around 200 million won per year

Young Scientist Grants

1. Outstanding Young Scientist Grants*: To foster excellent researchers by inspiring new researchers' creative research motivation and maximizing research capabilities.

2. Outstanding Young Scientist Grants (Seed Grants): To support creative research by young scientists for establishing their research infrastructure and cultivating their excellence in research

3. Domestic Track: To promote young scientists including postdoctoral fellows to conduct their own research that they want to focus through this fellowship, thereby d eveloping and establishing themselves as capable researchers in the core science and engineering fields.

Overseas training Track: To support overseas training for outstanding postdoctoral researchers to develop into key players in the fields of national strategic technology* and therefore to serve as a foundation 

securing national competitiveness. 

*① Semiconduct·display, ② Secondary battery, ③ Stateof-the-art mobility, ④ Next-generation nuclear power, ⑤ Advanced biology, ⑥ Aerospace·Marine, ⑦ Hydrogen, ⑧  Cyber security, ⑨ Artificial intelligence, ⑩ Next-generation communication, ⑪ State-of-the-art robot·manufacturing, ⑫ quantum

4. Infrastructure Supporting Grants for Young Scientist: To support young scientists to establish their laboratories for core infrastructures, enabling the researchers to focus on the challenging projects from the early stage of their careers

 *Eligible Individuals:

 1. Outstanding Young Scientist Grants* : Full-time faculty members in the science and engineering field at domestic universities and regular researchers at national/ public/government-funded/private

 2. Outstanding Young Scientist Grants (Seed Grants): research institutions who have obtained a doctorate within 7 years or are 39 years of age or younger ※ Full-time faculty members affiliated with domestic universities who have been employed for less than 5 years as an assistant professor or higher may apply even if they are not less than 7 years old after obtaining a doctorate or are under 39 years of age

 3. Sejong Science Fellow-ship : Domestic Track: ncourage research immersion through fellowships so that young scientists, such as postdoctoral researchers, can grow and settle into key scientific and technological talents by conducting the research they want / Overseas training Track: 

Support for overseas training so that excellent postdoctoral researchers can grow into key talents in national strategic technology fields*

 and become a source of securing national competitiveness * ① semiconductors and displays, ② secondary batteries, ③ advanced mobility, and ④ next generation nuclear, ⑤ advanced bio, ⑥ aerospace & marine, ⑦ hydrogen, ⑧ cybersecurity, ⑨ artificial intelligence, ⑩ next generation communications, ⑪ advanced robotics & manufacturing, ⑫

 4. Infrastructure Supporting Grants for Young Scientist:  full-time faculty member in the science and engineering fieldat a domestic university who has obtained a doctorate within 7 years or is 39 years of age or younger ※ Full-time faculty members affiliated with domestic universities who have been employed for less than 5 years as an assistant professor or higher may apply even if they are not less than 7 years old after obtaining a doctorate or are under 39 years of age ※ 2024 beneficiaries and foreign nationals are not eligible to app

 *Annual research fund budget:

 1. Outstanding Young Scientist Grants*: Around 250 million won per year(Up to 50 million won in additional support for global collaboration)

 2. Outstanding Young Scientist Grants (Seed Grants): Around 100 million won per year

 3. Sejong Science Fellow-ship: Domestic Track: Around 130 million won per year / Overseas training Track: won per year (labor costs, fixed amount support) (excluding overhead)

 4. Infrastructure Supporting Grants for Young Scientist: ar 1 to 500 million per year

 *Research period(maximum): 

 1. Outstanding Young Scientist Grants*: 1 to 3 years 4 years (3+1) / 5 years (3+2)

 2. Outstanding Young Scientist Grants (Seed Grants): 1 year

 3. Sejong Science Fellow-ship: Domestic Track: 5 years (3+2) / Overseas training Track: 1 year

 4. Infrastructure Supporting Grants for Young Scientist: 1 year

Pilot and Feasibility Grants

To support pioneering research for the new paradigm shifts, or discovery and establishment of new concepts, rather than the traditional research areas that have been being heavily investigated.

 *Eligible Individuals: University faculty (full-time/part- time) in the field of science and engineering and researchers at national/public/government-funded research institutes

 *Annual research fund budget: Around 100 million per year

 *Research period(maximum): 1 to 3 years

Basic Research Grants for National Agenda

To support strategic basic research for the 12 national strategic technologies, promising future research areas and others to prepare national and social needs

 *Eligible Individuals: University faculty (full-time/part- time) in the field of science and engineering and researchers at national/public/government-funded research institutes

 *Annual research fund budget: Around 200 million won per year

 *Research period(maximum): 1 to 3 years

 General Grants

To expanding the research enhancing national research capacity by broadly supporting individual basic research in the field of science and engineering

 *Eligible Individuals: Full-time faculty members in the science and engineering fields of universities and researchers at national/public/government- funded/private research institute

 *Annual research fund budget: Around 50 million won per year (excluding overhead)

 *Research period(maximum): 1 to 3 year

Starting Grants

Expanding research opportunities and encouraging early research settlement for young scientists with research capabilities

 *Eligible Individuals: A full-time university faculty member in the science and engineering field who has no experience receiving individual basic research grants, and who has obtained a doctorate within 7 years or is 39 years of age or young

 *Annual research fund budget: Around 30 million won per year (excluding overhead)

 *Research period(maximum): 1 to 3 years

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Global Centers of Research Excellence

SRC : To foster outstanding research groups in the field of science, strengthening national basic research capacity including the development of new theories, solution of scientific challenges and others.

ERC : To produce basic research outcomes that enable to transfer basic research to the applied research, and to serve as a founding base for the industry-academia cooperation within universities by fostering outstanding research groups in the field of engineering.

MRC : To strengthen national bio and health research capabilities by fostering research groups in the fields of medical science, dental science, traditional Korean medical science and pharmacology, and then by promoting investigation of human life phenomena and disease mechanisms, and others.

CRC : To produce novel creative results and new world-class knowledge including various social issues, public demands, and others by fostering interdisciplinary convergence research groups.

RLRC : To provide supports for sustainable and self-sustaining innovative growth foundations,and to strengthen regional research capabilities by fostering research groups in the area of regional innovation.

IRC : To build up sustainable research capacity through fostering research groups of the field of outstanding strategic technology, to play a role in a hub for a cooperation among industry/university/research institute within the university, and to produce world-class research outcomes.

NRL2.0 : To support for the national growth by training professional researchers and by conducting innovative research in the areas of future core technologies, utilizing outstanding research personnel, infrastructure and others in universities or colleges

 * SRC:

 Eligible Individuals:  Group of the researchers (8 or more researchers) from the university with graduate school in the science and engineering fields

 Research Period: 7 years(4+3)

 Annual research budget (including overhead): Within 1.65 billion won per year

 * ERC: 

 Eligible Individuals: Group of the researchers (8 or more researchers) from the university with graduate school in the science and engineering fields

 Research Period: Within 7 years (Autonomous setting)

 Annual research budget (including overhead): Within 2 billion won per year

 * MRC: 

 Eligible Individuals: Group of the researchers (8 or more) from the university with graduate school in basic medical science (medical science, dental science, traditional Korean medical science and pharmacology)

 Research Period: 7 years(4+3)

 Annual research budget (including overhead): Within 1.5 billion won per year

 * CRC: 

 Eligible Individuals:  Group of the researchers (around 10 researchers) from the university with Science and Engineering, and Humanities/Social Science/ArtGraduate school

 Research Period: 7 years(2+2+3)

 Annual research budget (including overhead): Within 1.5 billion won per year

 * RLRC: 

 Eligible Individuals: Group of the researchers (within 8 researchers) from the university with graduate school in the science and engineering fields

 Research Period: 7 years(4+3)

 Annual research budget (including overhead): Within 1.5 billion won per year

 * IRC: 

 ligible Individuals: Group of the researchers (around 13 researchers from the same university) from the university with graduate school in the science and engineering fields

 Research Period: 10 years(3+4+3)

 Annual research budget (including overhead): Within 5 billion won per year

 * NRL2.0: 

 Eligible Individuals: University-affiliated research center

 Research Period: 10 years(3+4+3)

 Annual research budget (including overhead): Within 10 billion won per year (including budgets from the Department of Education)

Global Basic Research Laboratory

Advanced Track : To support various types of research that serve to deepen existing research by systematically fostering small-scale research groups.

Pioneer Track : To support the growth of competent young researchers by supporting creative and challenging research in new fields that are rarely attempted in Korea.

 Eligible Individuals: Research group of 3~4 people including full-time faculty from the university of the Science and Engineering fields

 Research Period: Within 3 years

 Annual research budget (including overhead): Within 500 million won per year

Global - Learning & Academic research institution for Master's · PhD students, and Postdocs(G-LAMP)

To establish and operate a system that strengthens the management and support of university-affiliated research labs and facilitates collaborative research centered on early-career researchers, by designating and nurturing innovative theme-focused laboratories as university-wide key research hubs

 Supported Fields: 12 key areas of basic research

 Eligible Institutions: Universities under Article 2 of the Higher Education Act (excluding the four national institutes of science and technology)

 Details: Strengthening university research management systems and supporting innovative collaborative research

  - Improving research lab structures through comprehensive university-level coordination and restructuring

  - Facilitating interdisciplinary and collaborative research focused on early-career researchers while supporting cross-institutional collaborative research programs

 Duration: 5 years (3+2)

 Scale: About KRW 5 billion per year (50% in the first year, for 6 months)

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Global Hub Program for Research Data

Support for a sharing and analysis environment and computing infrastructure for large-scale experimental data generated from cutting-edge research equipment, large-scale observation equipment, and simulation experim

 Research Period: 3 years (continued)

 Annual research budget (including overhead): Around 3.8 billion won

CERN Collaboration Program

Securing domestic basic science capabilities through international cooperation, such as participating in detector experiments and theoretical physics research at the CERN laboratory and jointly developing key devices in large detectors (CMS, ALICE)

 Research Period: 3 years (continued)

 Annual research budget (including overhead): CMS approximately 5.7 billion won / ALICE approximately 2.7 billion won / Theoretical physics approximately 600 million won

Research Grants to Promote Creativity / Taking on Challenges

Research funding support for independent and stable research at research-dedicated levels within universities

 Eligible Individuals: University researchers (Part-time faculty, postdoctoral researcher)

 Support period: 1 to 3 years

 Annual research budget: Within 70 million won

Research Grants for Overlooked Areas

Support for the research areas that need to be protected and nurtured to ensure diversity and balance in the basic sciences

 Eligible Individuals: University researchers (Full-time, Part-time faculty, postdoctoral researcher)

 Support period: 5 years (3+2)

 Annual research budget: (Joint) less than 300 million won / (Single) less than 100 million won

Regional University Distinguished Scientist Grants  

Support for excellent researchers at local universities to continually produce research results

 Eligible Individuals: Local university researchers (Full-time, Part-time faculty, postdoctoral researcher)

 Support period: 3 to 10 years (6 years or more : Less than 3+3+4)

 Annual research budget: Within 50 million won

Interdisciplinary Convergence Research Grants

Support for future-leading research and future convergence talents through convergence research

 Eligible Individuals: Full-time university faculty (The principal investigator is in science and engineering)

 Support period: 3 years

 Annual research budget: Within 300 million won

Future Challenge Research

Support for collaborative, multidisciplinary research that is challenging, has great potential, and can bring about paradigm shifts that can open up new areas

 Eligible Individuals: University researchers (Full-time/part-time faculty, postdoctoral researcher)

 Support period: 5 years (3+2)

 Annual research budget: Within 200 million won

Glocal R&D

Support for basic research conducted by researchers from non-metropolitan universities that can support regional development and drive innovation

 Eligible Individuals: Regional* university researcher (Full-time/part-time faculty, postdoctoral researcher)

* Except universities located in the metropolitan area (Seoul, Gyeonggi, Incheon), 4 major science and technology institutions, excluding POSTEC

 Support period: 3 years

 Annual research budget: Within 180 million won

Research Subsidies for Ph.D. Candidates

Research grant support for fulltime students enrolled in doctoral programs at domestic graduate schools to conduct
dissertation research

 Eligible Individuals: Doctoral students (including combined master’s and doctoral students)

※ Citizens of the Republic of Korea

 Support period: 1 to years

 Annual research budget: 25 million won

Research Subsidies for Master’s Students

Research grant support for fulltime students enrolled in master’s programs at domestic graduate schools to conduct

dissertation research

 Eligible Individuals: Master’s degree students (including combined bachelor’s and master’s/master’s and doctorate ) 

※ Citizens of the Republic of Korea

 Support period: 1 year

 Annual research budget: 12 million won

Post-Doc. Domestic and Overseas Training

Research funding support for postdoctoral researchers to conduct research projects at domestic or overseas universities and research institutes

 Eligible Individuals: Those who have obtained a doctorate degree from a domestic or foreign university within the past 5 years

※ Those who are citizens of the Republic of Korea

 Support period: [Domestic] 1 to 3 years / [Overseas] 1 year

 Annual research budget: 60 million won

Post-Doc. Research for Growth

Support for postdoctoral researchers and others to improve their research capabilities and grow in various ways while proactively conducting innovative research

 Eligible Individuals: (Joint / Single) Postdoctoral researcher (university-affiliated, excluding full-time faculty)

※ As of the date of commencement of research, the applicant must have  obtained a doctoral degree within 7 years or be 39 years of age or younger, and the principal investigator must be a citizen of the Republic of Korea. (Part-time) Part-time faculty (university-affiliated)

※ Retirees are excluded from the application, Korean nationals only

 Support period: 3 year

 Annual research budget: (Joint) 300 million won / (Single) 70 million won / (Part-time) 100 million won

Priority Research Institute Program

(Priority Research Institute Program) Provides research funds for up to 9 years to selected science and engineering university research institutes at university to provide a continuous research environment for new researchers

(Glocal lab) Focused support for university research centers to become  regional

(including metropolitan) hubs of basic research and lead regional development

 Eligible Individuals: KCI-registered university affiliated research centers

 Support period: 9 years (3+3+3)

 Annual research budget(Priority Research Institute Program): [General] Within 700 million won / [Voluntary] Within 1.1 billion won

 Annual research budget(Glocal lab): [Base] Around 1.5 billion won / [Consortium] Within 2.4 billion won

Research Facility Establishment Program

(Core research support center & Enable

collaborative research) ①Establishng of a core research support center that can integrate and jointly utilize research  equipment scattered throughout the university, ②Continued promotion of support for activating joint research

((Demonstration) Building a base network) Promoting a pilot project to designate excellent core 

research support centers and infrastructure-enhanced facilities as research bases and establish and operate a cooperative network based on R&D facilities and equipment

(infrastructure advancement) Support for cutting-edge R&D equipment and support the training and operation of

dedicated operating personnel, in order for universities to perform innovative

research at a global level as research hubs

 Eligible Individuals: 

 (Core research support center): 

[New] University-affiliated research institute/joint laboratory practice center 

※ Excluding the four major science and technology institutes

[Successor] Core research support center (2 years or less after the end of the assignment)

(Enable collaborative research)

Core research support center

(2 years or more of selection)

((Demonstration) Building a base network)

Core research support center, Infrastructure enhancement facility

(infrastructure advancement) 

Core research support center,  University research institution, 

University joint laboratory practice center

※ Excluding the four major science and technology institutes

 Support period: 

 (Core research support center): 

[New] 6 years (3+3)

[Subsequent] 3 years

(Enable collaborative research)

3 years

((Demonstration) Building a base network)

5 years (3+2)

(infrastructure advancement)

5 years (3+2)

 Annual research budget: 

 (Core research support center): 

[New] Around 450 million won

[Followup] Around 300 million won

(Enable collaborative research)

Within 90 million won 

((Demonstration) Building a base network)

around 150 million won

(infrastructure advancement)

[Equipment]

Around 5 billion

[Operations]

Around 500 million won