In August, Korea University (KU) began its KU-Future Research Grant (KU-FRG) project to support the research works of its faculties, by allocating five billion won of the university’s educational expenditures. This grant project is different from the existing grant system in that the researchers do not necessarily have to submit their research papers within a given period, and that they can use their grant-in-aid flexibly.


The project is divided into three parts—the Newton project of natural science and engineering, the Dasan project of social science, and the Renaissance project of humanities—in order to establish a practical and creative research tradition. KU received 292 simplified proposals, and singled out 135 projects proposed by 201 professors (12.5 percent of all full-time faculties) as the subjects for funding.

Yeom Jaeho, the president of KU, mentioned on the significance of KU-FRG. “As a part of the effort to pioneer future education and research, the university is willing to make investments in researches essential to our future. It is hard to expect Nobel Prizes in a hasty research climate,” he said.
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