ㅇ Promoting energy technology of KIER and conducting the top-tier cutting edge joint R&Ds with foreign research groups.

■Outcome

ㅇ The FY 2022 KIER international joint R&D project* will be funded by KIER.
* Description for KIER’s International Joint R&D Project
Approx. 200M KRW at maximum will be granted for each project.
(100M KRW for KIER / 100M KRW for the foreign partner, at the most)

■ Candidates qualifications

ㅇ Any Scientists and engineers in need of KIER’s funding support with an aim for advancing state of the art research in the area of energy technology

ㅇ And those with more than 3 years of relevant professional career

● Any scientists and engineers who meet the abovementioned qualifications are eligible to apply and submit foreign PI’s concept paper (CP) and CV by June 10 (Thursday), 2021.

- Proposal CPs relevant to KIER’s 2 CPs (refer to the list) only are eligible for this funding program.

- If you submit CP with no relevance with KIER’s 2 CPs, then it will not be accepted as funding program this year. However, it will be referred and shared among KIER’s researchers when apply in 2022.

- Overhead cost cannot exceed 20% of total budget cost
(This rate can be negotiable after the final selection)

● After the 1^st proposal evaluation, several top-ranked candidates will be selected as eligible partners for full proposal submission with 2 KIER PIs. One partner for one KIER PI will be matched at the 1st evaluation during the 3^rd week of June, 2021. The submitted CP(Concept Paper) and your CV only are considered in the evaluation by KIER Committee. (No oral presentations)

● KIER will award one or two projects (the number maybe changed depending on the budget available) which successfully pass the final presentation evaluation as KIER’s international joint projects.

- Presentation speaker should be both foreign PI and KIER PI

- Foreign PI gives an online presentation via web application.

- KIER PI will attend the evaluation venue at KIER and present before evaluators.

■ Schedule(tentative)

- Submission deadline follows Korean Time

- Use the Concept Paper template (form) provided

- Full Proposal form will be provided to those who pass the 1^st evaluation

- Online submission by email account whb@kier.re.kr is available. (No fax, No postal mail)

■ Contact

ㅇWoonho Baek, Coordinator, Global Strategy Team