국립 부경대학교

연구지원 대폭 확대한 부경대, 연구비 ‘역대 최고’
- 상반기 외부 연구비 765억 … 차세대 연구지원 행정시스템 구축 등

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국립부경대학교(총장 장영수)가 차세대 연구지원 행정시스템을 구축하는 등 연구지원 사업을 대폭 확대, 외부 연구비를 역대 최고로 확보해 눈길을 끌고 있다.

부경대는 산학협력단(단장 오정환)을 주관으로 연구자의 연구 및 학술활동 지원과 연구 경쟁력 강화를 위해 올해 학술연구진흥사업 종합계획을 수립, 30개에 이르는 연구지원사업을 추진한다고 14일 밝혔다.

부경대는 연구지원 전 과정을 통합 관리하는 ‘차세대 연구행정통합관리 시스템 구축’을 비롯, 연구 관련 금융거래를 지원하는 ‘연구과제 펌뱅킹 서비스’, 젊은 연구자를 지원하기 위한 ‘Post-Doc 지원’ 및 ‘논문게재료 지원’ 등 사업을 올해 신설했다.

이와 함께 기존 운영해오던 연구지원사업들 중 사업신청 준비금과 챌린징리서치그룹 지원, 학술대회 개최 경비 및 우수논문 포상금 지원 사업 등은 대폭 확대하거나 개선해 연구자들이 지원 효과를 체감할 수 있도록 했다.

이 같은 노력으로 부경대는 올해 상반기(1~6월)에 역대 최고인 765억 원에 달하는 연구비를 확보했다. 같은 기간 2019년 553억 원, 2020년 621억 원과 비교하면 크게 증가한 수치다.

특히 몇 년에 걸쳐 진행되는 연구사업의 특성을 반영한 총 연구비 수주액을 보면 2019년 1205억 원, 2020년 1632억 원에 이어 올해 2100억 원으로 증가폭이 더욱 컸다.

부경대는 한국연구재단의 국가연구개발사업에서 지난해보다 2배 이상 증가한 380억 원의 연구비를 확보한 것을 비롯, 해양수산부, 과학기술정보통신부, 산업통상자원부 등 정부의 각종 대형 연구사업에 선정되는 성과를 올렸다.

부경대 오정환 산학협력단장은 “연구자들이 연구에 전념할 수 있는 기반을 조성하는 것은 물론, 연구과제 기획과 유치, 학술활동과 사후관리까지 체계적으로 지원한 효과가 나타나는 것 같다. 이 같은 노력으로 부경대가 연구중심대학으로 도약하고 지역 산학협력의 메카로 자리 잡을 수 있도록 더욱 힘쓰겠다.”라고 말했다. <부경투데이>

Greatly expanded research support for PKNU, the largest amount for research grants ever

External research grants of 76.5 billion won in the first half … PKNU's efforts to establish a next-generation research support administration system.

Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-Soo) has greatly expanded research projects, such as establishing a next-generation research support administration system, by securing the largest amount external research funds in the history of the school, attracting the public's attention.

Pukyong National University announced on the 14th that under the supervision of the Industry-University Cooperation Foundation (Director Oh Jeong-Hwan), the university will establish a comprehensive plan for this year's academic research promotion project to support research, academic activities, strengthen research competitiveness, and promote up to 30 research projects.

Pukyong National University has prepared a ‘firm banking service for the research project’ that supports research-related financial transactions, including the ‘next-generation integrated administration management system for research’ that administers the entire research support process. In addition, projects such as ‘Post-Doc Support’ and ‘thesis publication fee support,’ have been newly established this year to support young researchers.

In addition, among the existing research support projects, the fund for the project application fees, support for the challenging research, expenses for academic conferences, and prize money for excellent theses have been greatly expanded and improved so that researchers can feel the effect of the support.

Through these efforts, Pukyong National University secured research grants amounting to KRW 76.5 billion, an all-time high, in the first half of this year (January to June). This is a significant increase compared to 55.3 billion won in 2019 and 62.1 billion won in 2020 during the same period.

Particularly, when comparing the total research grants that reflect the characteristics of research projects conducted over several years, the increase was even greater, reaching 210 billion won this year, an increase over the 120.5 billion won in 2019 and 163.2 billion won in 2020.

Pukyong National University has achieved results not only securing 38 billion won in research funding, more than doubled from last year, in the national R&D project from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), but also has been selected for various large-scale government research projects hosted by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF), the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOITE).

Oh Jeong-Hwan, director of the Industry-University Cooperation Foundation at Pukyong National University, said, "The effects of Pukyong National University not only creating a foundation for researchers to focus on research, but also systematically supporting research project planning and recruitment, academic activities and follow-up management are now appearing. Through these efforts, Pukyong National University will make a leap forward as a research-oriented university and make more efforts to establish itself as a mecca for regional industry-university cooperation." <Pukyong Today>