‘Global TOP Strategic Research Team’ selected for the final round of 10 projects.

The Ministry of Science, Technology and Information has entered the final stage for selecting a national representative research team,

View of the Sejong National Research Complex occupied by the National Research Council of Science & Technology [Photo=NST],
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, “The Ministry of Science, Technology and Information has announced that ten projects have made it to the final round of evaluation for the newly launched ‘Global Top (TOP) Strategic Research Team Support Program’ aimed at government-funded research institutions this year.”,
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, “The Ministry of Science, Technology and Information and the National Research Council of Science & Technology have selected ten projects in the first round evaluation of research and development plans, and have stated plans to conduct a final second round evaluation after consulting and enhancing each project.”,
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, “‘Global Top (TOP) Strategic Research Teams’ is a new form of convergence research team support program that the Ministry of Science, Technology and Information is investing 1 trillion won annually from this year to support the establishment of a cooperative system centered on national missions with reduced barriers between research teams and to create major achievements in collaboration with domestic and international industry, academia, and research institutes. The Ministry of Science, Technology and Information plans to support the necessary amount for each research team according to the evaluation results and prioritized rankings, without pre-determining the number of final selected projects or the amount of funding per project.”,
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, “Earlier in March, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Information selected a total of 14 projects for the first round evaluation. Subsequently, 8-10 specialized evaluation committees were formed for each project to conduct in-depth reviews.”,
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, “In the first round evaluation, a total of 10 projects were selected in the fields of semiconductor, secondary battery, quantum, hydrogen, carbon, bio, space, and nuclear power.”,
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, “The selected projects include the Ultra-large Scale Computational Semiconductor Research Team (KIST), Market-leading Next-generation Secondary Battery Innovation Strategy Research Team (Chemical Institute), Carbon Dioxide Resource Strategies for Overcoming Climate Crisis Research Team (Chemical Institute), Quantum Connection Strategy Research Team (Standard Institute), Electrolytic Hydrogen Production System Strategy Research Team (EGI Institute), High Safety and High Efficiency Clean Hydrogen Storage and Transportation (KIST), Protein Structure-based Practical Drug Development Platform (KBSI), Global TOP Genetic and Cellular Therapy Specialized Research Team (Life Institute), K-Moon Local Resource Development (Geological Institute), and SMR Virtual Atomic Reactor Platform Development Project Team (Nuclear Institute), among others.”,
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, “On the other hand, proposals such as the Intelligent Robot Laboratory (Materials) that made it to the first round of evaluation, Human-friendly Humanoid Robot, Korean-style Space Network Establishment, and Next-generation Nuclear Reactor Structural Concrete were not selected.”,
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, “The Ministry of Science, Technology and Information evaluated that the selected projects are all recognized as necessary tasks that require national capabilities to be consolidated, presenting urgent missions to solve current national problems and improve global scientific and technological competitiveness by establishing an innovative collaborative system among industry, academia, and research institutes.”,
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, “The projects selected in the first round evaluation will go through a consultation phase to complement their mission goals and operational systems, and are planned to be presented for the final second round evaluation at the end of May.”,
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