Notice
The 4rd POSTECH Cultural Content Contest in Science and Technology
POSTECH would like to solicit creative and innovative research ideas about ‘Health care in future car’ as below.
1. Objective
– Seek for blue skies research idea (*) which has unexpected possibility and high impact. 1-page proposal will be screened before supporting seed money to finally foster intellectual property or High-risk/High-impact research proposal for the government/companies.
2. Outline
1. Objective
– Seek for blue skies research idea (*) which has unexpected possibility and high impact. 1-page proposal will be screened before supporting seed money to finally foster intellectual property or High-risk/High-impact research proposal for the government/companies.
2. Outline
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Division
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Details
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Note
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Topic
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Creative and innovative research idea for the ’Health care in future car’
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Eligibility
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Full-time POSTECH members
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Budget
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Up to 10 million won / project
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– Research budget should be used for only ‘research activity’. (Not allowed for personnel expenses, research equipment, and materials)
– POSTECH Rules for the Implementation of the Research Administration Regulations will be applied to this. (Cost for meeting should not be more than 15% of the whole research budget) |
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Period
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3 months
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Proposal form
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1-page proposal
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– Project name, principal investigator’s (PI) name, affiliation, and phone number, co-investigator’s name and affiliation, and estimated research budget and period must be included in each proposal. Except for the above required information, the proposal is free-format.
– All contents except research budget should be in 1 page – Korean or English |
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Project evaluation
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Review committee will evaluate
1-page proposal |
– Creativity and uniqueness of the idea
– High-risk/High-impact – Collaboration and synergy effect – Relevance with ‘Health care in future car’ |
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Timeline
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2015. 07. 24: 1- page proposal due
2015. 08. Result announcement 2015. 09. ~ 11. Project execution |
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3. Follow-up actions
– Full proposal will be collected to support big project application for the government or companies depend on the review.
– If the idea is probable for being an intellectual property, we will provide full support for the rapid patent application.
4. Contact & submission
– Jiwoo Kang, Research planning team (feelfree@postech.ac.kr, 279-3633)
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* Blue skies research?
“Curiosity-driven science”, which is lacking preceding research or support, but have unexpected possibility (The opposite is Agenda-driven science).
In this request, we call ‘Blue skies research’ as a high-impact and innovative research in which POSTECH can be world-leading.
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