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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