Ministry of Education selects 5 new project teams
Largest among private universities outside of Seoul area
Graduate school competitiveness recognized in all academic fields including engineering, natural science, pharmaceuticals, and social sciences
[December 24, 2015]
YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) was pre-selected for a total of 12 projects in the interim evaluations of the Ministry of Education's 'Brain Korea (BK21) Plus Project' and will thus operate the most number of project teams among private universities outside of the Seoul area. Overall, it is 15th place in the nation.
The 'BK21 Plus Project' fosters outstanding graduate schools by academic fields and provides research scholarships to graduate school students. It began in 2013 and invests 269.7 billion won annually, and supports approximately 15,500 master's and PhD level students made up of 13,000 in the science technology sector and 2,500 in the humanities and social science fields.
According to the preliminary results of the interim evaluations announced by the Ministry of Education and National Research Foundation on the 23rd, YU's seven existing project teams were all selected again, while five project teams were additionally selected.
The newly selected teams are the Climate Change Adaptation Sustainability Water Industry Human Resource Fostering Project Team, E-CAR (Electrified-CAR) Core Electric Energy Technology Human Resource Fostering Project Team, Biomimetics Fine Reaction System Research Team for Carbon Dioxide Light Conversion Fuel, Super Generic Development Customized Creative Human Resources Fostering Project Team, and the Regional Small-Strong Company Creative Human Resource Fostering team. This shows that the competitiveness of the graduate school was recognized in all academic fields such as engineering, natural science, medical-pharmaceutical, and social science.
YU President Noh Seok-kyun said, "I am very happy that the basis for the next academic generation that will lead the creative economy was expanded so that they may concentrate on studies and research," while adding, "The school will spare no efforts so that more world-class research results can be made.
The selected project teams will receive funding for projects for four years until 2020. The Ministry of Education and National Research Foundation will inspect materials submitted by schools such as on research expenses and snowballing thesis performances by January 2016 and confirm selection in February.
Meanwhile, the interim evaluation by the Ministry of Education was made at high intensity levels and reevaluated all applications. In order to evaluate the 544 project teams selected in 2013, 227 teams in the top 50% were re-selected first. 343 teams in the lower 50% and 479 new applications were evaluated from which 269 were selected. 24 teams that had considerably poor performance were disqualified without being given the opportunity for reevaluation. Accordingly, 125 or 22.9% of the 544 existing project teams were disqualified. 127 project teams were newly selected and among the pre-selected project teams, 23.3% were changed.
