Program details

Research period: July 1 ~ Dec 31, 2022 (6 months)
• Research objective: Climate mitigation technology
• Research sectors:
   1) carbon reduction and renewable energy 
   2) climate change and sustainability
   3) implementation of water treatment technology in field 
• Funding amount: approx. 40,000,000 KRW
• Research proposal due to be submitted: June 23rd, 2022
• Requirement briefly:
    Oral presentation tentatively Oct, 2022 
    Final reports submission (in English) Nov 30th, 2022
• Research Funding: GIST Research Institute (GRI) grant funded by the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in 2022

Eligibility

• Each applicants must be nationals of developing countries. The applicant must hold a PhD with some research experiences focus on environment issues.
• Each scientists who has satisfactory achievements on a previous fund may apply for a renewal.
• Each applicants must provide the institution / university’s bank account for funding transfer. Bank account belong to personnel / trust fund will not be accepted.
• Agreement has to be made between university rather than institutions. Seal with institution is not valid.

How to apply

 1. Application documents
• IERI research proposal form (Downloadable)
• Principal Investigator’s CV with a list of publication
  (Including the 1st page of each published articles)
2. Email to IERI
ieri@gist.ac.kr
3. Application Deadline 
June 23rd, 2022

Submitted proposals are evaluated against the following criteria:

• Feasible to the provided research sectors
• Innovation: extent to which the proposed research contributes to knowledge creation by expanding and or strengthening the relevant literature on growth and development.
• Scientific outcomes (SCI journal publication) based on 2021 GRI grant
• Quality and composition of research work
• Contribution to local capacity
• Value for money