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Giving ambitious research the time and support to thrive
We will create a stable research environment where faculty can pursue major questions over the long term, beyond the pressures of short-term performance competition.
Detailed Pledges
02-1
Annual ₩30M base research funding and a two-track research policyHighlight Pledge
- Provide every full-time faculty member with ₩30M in base research funding
- Integrate support for diverse academic activities into the base research fund, with members free to spend the total without item-level restrictions
- Divide research policy and inventory survey methods between humanities and sciences
- Reward breakthrough and high-risk research fully and fund the follow-up work
- Strengthen the foundation for international research exchange through faculty research years and visiting-research support
02-2
Organizational and Administrative Reform of the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
- Transform the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation into an organization that provides effective support for research and technology commercialization.
- Expand support functions for winning overseas projects, international joint research, and technology commercialization
- Completely reorganize the entire research administration process, from agreements and execution to settlement, around researchers and integrate support
02-3
Expand research infrastructure and create a support team for large research projects
- Expand research space, shared instrumentation, university-wide GPU infrastructure, and library database subscriptions
- Expand shared spaces to respond flexibly to colleges' urgent and temporary space needs
- Create a support team for large research projects, staffed by Ph.D.-level personnel, to handle project planning and proposals and provide administrative support
- Use AI to shorten IRB review times and make them more flexible by discipline
02-4
A knowledge ecosystem of academic diversity and sustainability
- Raise the quality of graduate education by strengthening faculty incentives
- Expand sustained, long-term research support for basic, underrepresented, and emerging fields
02-5
Full-cycle support for researchers' growth
- Strengthen orientation and teaching training for new faculty and expand settlement and housing support
- Build administrative, space, and institutional support for affiliated joint-appointment professors to work effectively
- Create postdoctoral fellowships linked to global corporate brands, such as Samsung-SNU Postdoctoral Fellows
- Expand TA funding and basic living support for full-time master's and doctoral students
Priority Actions
- ₩30M in annual base research funding for full-time faculty
- Organizational and Administrative Reform of the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
- Create postdoc positions co-branded with global companies
- Establish a large-scale research project support team and expand technician staffing